Cynthia Onyedinmanasu Chinasaokwu Erivo (born 8 January 1987) is an English actress, singer, and songwriter.
She is known for her performance as Celie in the Broadway revival of The Color Purple, for which she won the 2016 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical, the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, and the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Musical Performance in a Daytime Program, the latter two she shared with the rest of the cast.
Erivo ventured into films in 2018, with roles in the heist film Widows and the thriller Bad Times at the El Royale. In 2019, she portrayed abolitionist Harriet Tubman in the biopic Harriet, for which she earned nominations for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
Cynthia Erivo criticises ‘offensive’ fan edit of Wicked poster
nme.comWicked film poster, saying it “degrades” her.The official poster for the forthcoming movie musical was released last week and is similar in style to the iconic poster advertising the original musical.
In it, Erivo as Elphaba stares into the camera while Ariana Grande as Glinda whispers in her ear.In the new poster, both actors’ faces are visible, whereas in the original one, Elphaba’s eyes are hidden by the brim of her hat and is wearing red lipstick.
The fan altered the new poster to make it closer in resemblance to the original.Erivo was not impressed. “This is the wildest, most offensive thing I have seen, equal to that awful Ai of us fighting, equal to people posing the question ‘is your ***** green’,” she wrote in an Instagram story.“None of this is funny.
None of it is cute. It degrades me. It degrades us.”Cynthia Erivo reacts to edits of the ‘Wicked’ poster and the viral AI fighting animation:“Our poster is an homage not an imitation, to edit my face and hide my eyes is to erase me.
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