Cynthia Erivo Criticizes ‘Wicked’ Poster Being Fan Edited to Hide Her Face, Calls Out ‘Is Your P—- Green?’ Memes: ‘Offensive’ and ‘It Degrades Me’

variety.com:

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Cynthia Erivo is speaking out against “Wicked” fans who used photoshop to edit one of the recent posters for the upcoming film adaptation of the Broadway musical.

Warner Bros. released a “Wicked” film poster this month that evoked the original Broadway poster, with Ariana Grande’s Glinda whispering into the ear of Erivo’s Elphaba.

Only the film poster had a few tweaks, mainly lifting Elphaba’s hat so you could see Erivo’s eyes. “Wicked” fans loyal to the Broadway musical flooded social media after the poster dropped to issue photoshopped corrections, with Elphaba’s hat being lowered and her lips getting a bold red lipstick in order for the film one-sheet to exactly match the Broadway one.

Erivo found such alterations hurtful. “This is the wildest, most offensive thing I have seen equal to that awful AI of us fighting, equal to people posing the the question ‘is your p—- green?” Erivo wrote on her Instagram story while sharing one of the photoshopped “Wicked” posters with her face covered. “None of this is funny.