'PRECIOUS' star Gabourey Sidibe joining "The C Word,"

With her first feature film "Precious" generating Oscar buzz ahead of its nationwide release next Friday, first-time actress Gabourey Sidibe is already fielding offers to star in other projects.

The 26-year-old is currently in negotiations to join Showtime's comedy pilot "The C Word," which stars Laura Linney as a suburban wife, mother and a teacher forced to face a diagnosis of cancer but who manages to find the lighter side of a dark situation.

Sidibe would play the recurring role of a student in her summer-school class. Also in the cast of the pilot are John Benjamin Hickey ("Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen") as the brother of Linney's character, and Phyllis Somerville ("The Curious Case of Benjamin Button") as her neighbor.