10 Actors Who Had INSANE Careers Before Movies
8. Gabourey Sidibe Worked For A Phone Sex Line
Breaking into the film industry is famously next to impossible, and there simply has to be something to bring the money in and pay the bills until the big break comes, if it ever does.
Gabourey Sidibe, likely most well-known for her roles on the likes of American Horror Story, Empire, and her big screen debut in Precious, had a stranger career than most before making it big, in that she worked for a phone sex line.
It may not seem particularly pleasant, even next to the less-than-inspiring alternatives, but if you think about it, at the very least she was acting. Maybe not in the traditional sense, but still, she was acting and she was good at it. As she told Jimmy Kimmel, she made a lot of money, and earned several promotions to the point that she was even monitoring the calls of the other workers, almost as something of a weird quality check kind of thing.
It is insane to think that just six years later, she had gone from talking on and listening to phone sex calls, to being nominated for an Academy Award. It just goes to show that you never know what is around the corner.