Watch this interview with Gabourey Sidibe, nominee for best performance by an actress in the leading role in the film "Precious" and choose the best answer or answer these questions (key in "comments").1. a) She had acted before and learned all the techniques.
b) Although she had no formal training, her performance evokes feelings.
c) She had terrible criticism because her performance was only words and techniques.
2. How did she get the role?
3. Had she thought of being an actress?
4. What did she think she’d be?
5. Had she read the book before making the movie?
6. How is the girl in the book like her?
a) She "knows" Precious, but she is completely different from her.
b) Precious is different from her in a lot of different ways and she doesn't "know" her.
c) Precious is like her in many ways because she has also had problems of self-esteem and she has been neglected and ignored.
7. a) The director chose her after seeing over 400 girls because she wasn't the "real Precious".
b) The director chose her because she was one of the 20 girls who were like the "real Precious" (abused, almost illiterate, with AIDS)
c) The director chose her because he could exploit her.
8. How does she feel about her weight now?
9. Has the movie changed her?
10. What is the story in the movie?
11. Why does she go barefoot on red carpets?
12. What does she want the film to do?
13. What does she want to keep doing?
1 comment:
1. b
2. She’s not sure. She was just a normal girl and she found out about the audition and decided to go uptown for the audition. After the audition she had two meetings with the director and finally (after a 45 minute conversation) she was offered the job.
3. Yes, but she had also decided it wasn’t the life for her.
4. She thought she’d be a therapist or something to do with psychology.
5. Yes, she had
6. C
7. A
8. Now she feels normal, she feels she fits in. She had lots of problems before because they always told her she was “wrong” because she was different.
9. No, she feels the same as she felt before. She thinks these things change the people around her and those who don’t know her.
10. It’s the story of a girl who is 16 and she is pregnant by her father by the second time. She is abused both by her father and her mother and she’s almost completely illiterate (she’s in the 9th grade at 16). She is ignored by her own parents and by the school system.
The film tells how she tries to get away from her abusers and build a real life for herself and for her children and how she learns to read.
11. Because her feet hurt in the shoes she has to wear for all these events.
12. She wants the film to teach people not to judge others, because it’s easier to judge than it is to help.
13. She wants to keep changing people’s minds.
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