She deployed it to fine effect in her upside-down household in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, where she and her older brother were raised by their warm, Southern mother and stern African father, whose family traditions extended to polygamy - “I know!” Ms. Sidibe said, she was an entrenched outlier - sarcasm has been both weapon and armor. Like many smart young women whose precociousness put them at odds with their peers - by fourth grade, Ms. Daniels cracked up, and the deal was sealed. Sidibe told him, “but now that I’m going to be a movie star, I’m going to get pregnant by a basketball player and lock down that child support.” Mr. Sidibe, then a 24-year-old psychology major whose training as an actor had been confined to her work as a phone-sex operator, as well as roles in college productions of “Peter Pan” and “The Wiz,” answered tartly. LOS ANGELES - On the night the director Lee Daniels offered Gabourey Sidibe the lead in “ Precious,” the role that would earn her an Oscar nomination, Mr.
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