How Gabby Sidibe Transformed Herself Into Precious

“‘My psychology training gave me knowledge of what a victim looks like,’ she explains, and demonstrates by curbing her animated gestures and shrinking into herself, hunching her shoulders, taking up less space in the room, and pulling down the shutters on a face that had previously been so open and quick to smile. Her eyes look dead, her mouth sullen, and she looks ugly, overweight and alienated from a body that only seconds before she had seemed totally at ease with.”