After supporting turns in sequence reminiscent of “American Horror Story,” “Empire,” and “Tough Individuals,” Gabourey Sidibe is ready to topline “1266.” Deadline studies that Onyx has ordered a pilot for the comedy, which is impressed by the Oscar nominee’s life.

The potential sequence follows “Gabby Brixton (Sidibe), who’s residing together with her mother and making half-hearted makes an attempt to turn into a singer/mannequin and in a single day millionaire. When she’s fired from her job, she stumbles upon the gig of a lifetime ― telephone intercourse. What initially looks as if a fast method to earn a living turns right into a life-changing expertise when she meets the ladies who turn into her chosen household and learns how highly effective, worthwhile and prolific her voice may be.”

In 2021, Sidibe shared extra about that chapter of her life. “I began as a talker, and after two months, I used to be promoted after which finally turned a monitor. So my job, day in, time out, was to take heed to phone-sex requires high quality insurance coverage and to verify the principles have been being adopted and what have you ever,” she defined. “And that was my life on the level. I had been there for 3 years and I knew ladies who have been at that firm for 15, 20 years, which is a very long time. I don’t know what folks suppose telephone intercourse is, but it surely’s precisely what I stated. It’s telephone intercourse. It’s with random strangers and people who find themselves paying for it. Not everybody is good. There are only a few telephone calls that you just may get pleasure from doing, and it may be very degrading work and I couldn’t think about doing it for for much longer.”

Sidibe, Thembi Banks (“Solely Murders within the Constructing”), and Julie Bean (“grown-ish”) are among the many challenge’s exec producers. The latter two will function co-showrunners, and Banks is penning the teleplay and directing the pilot.

In 2010 Sidibe obtained an Oscar nod for her main function in “Valuable.” Her memoir, “This Is Simply My Face: Strive To not Stare,” was printed in 2017.