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Gabourey Sidibe REVEALS she used to work as a phone sex operator and was told to use the name "Becky" because she didn't sound Black. She explains that the company pushed her to sound like a white girl because that's what male callers expected, before opening up about the wild character scripts she wrote and the heartbreaking calls she took from deployed soldiers overseas. "They gave me the name Becky because I was 21 and I had a high-pitched little voice... and it was a good thing to them that I didn't sound Black, because the men on the phone expect to speak to a white girl”