Cynthia Erivo comments on Wicked poster edits: "the wildest, most offensive thing I have seen"

[babarsuhail]

Cynthia Erivo has reacted to viral edits of the ‘WICKED’ poster:

“This is the wildest, most offensive thing I have seen, equal to that awful AI of us fighting… Our poster is an homage not an imitation, to edit my face & hide my eyes is to erase me. That is just deeply hurtful” pic.twitter.com/y3P1Qh379S
- DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) October 16,

Comments

[lulufairybubble]

It's unfortunate that she takes it that way. It's just an edit to make it closer to the original. That's all it was ever meant to be.

[lulufairybubble]

Upon further knowledge, I would like to recant my classy comment.

Fuck her.

[cstoffer]

Girl, log off your computer.

My biggest issue with the poster is not necessary the lack of smirk but it looks like she smelled something bad.

[vibeology_e]

I would have preferred the smirk but the thing that needed fixing is Ariana’s hair. All those section look off.

[fauxkaren]

This is the wildest, most offensive thing I have seen

I can understand why she wouldn't like the edits. But like, take the hyperbole down a notch or two. Is it REALLY the WILDEST and MOST offensive thing you've seen? If so, damn girl, sounds like you've lived a charmed life!

[insomniachobs]

Honestly, with some of the unhinged shit people get up to in fan edits (I don't know about the Wicked fandom specifically, but fandom in general can be pretty deranged), I'm very relieved for her if this is the wildest she's seen. Actors absolutely need to be sheltered from some of that shit

[emptyobsidian]

Yeah what a life of sheltered privilege if THIS is the wildest and most offensive thing she has ever seen-a random fan editing a movie poster to look like the original poster.

[crazyfreakyaj]

sounds like she's had blinders on since 2016 apparently

[devopet]

I think the AI one was waaay worse and totally created by someone trying to create some sort of cat fight tone to it all.

My baseless hunch? When they did the photo she pushed back on recreating it exactly because of the reasons she stated and now that people are redoing it she is trying to avoid blame.

I think it does matter a lot to her which is her right esp as she deals with a lot of racist shit. Fans are going to fan however so I just hope she can log off for a bit until the movie is out and hopefully proper recognition for her performance.

[dragonheart97]

My baseless hunch? When they did the photo she pushed back on recreating it exactly because of the reasons she stated and now that people are redoing it she is trying to avoid blame.

I feel like there could have been a compromise if that was the case: A faithful recreation of the original poster like the fan edit for the promo leading up to the movie, then the official one as a "reveal" post-release. It would have echoed the story of Elphaba's character and would have kept fans of the OG musical happy too.