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Oscar favourite Da'Vine Joy Randolph is defying Hollywood's fixation with women who are white and skinny
Voluptuously Randolph has made no secret of the fact that her big Hollywood break has taken years because she doesn't fit the mould of how a leading lady should look.
Voluptuously curvy, Da'Vine Joy Randolph has made no secret of the fact that her big Hollywood break has taken years because she doesn't fit the mould of how a leading lady should look. The film also stars Paul Giamatti as a cantankerous teacher at a private boys' school who is left to supervise Christmas in 1970 with a troubled student and Da'Vine's character, who is grieving the loss of her son in the Vietnam War. She auditioned as an understudy in the Broadway musical adaptation of Ghost, the Patrick Swayze-Demi Moore love story, and, in a moment of what she calls 'pure destiny', the lead in the London version fell ill – and Da'Vine dashed over the Atlantic to stand in.
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