Cynthia Erivo Teases Her Transformation Into the Blue Fairy in ‘Pinocchio’: ‘We Don’t Have Very Many Black Fairies’
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variety.comMarc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorCynthia Erivo knows that simply trying to impersonate Aretha Franklin for her starring role as the Queen of Soul in “Genius: Aretha” just wasn’t going to cut it. “The job is to transform and to find as much of the essence of this person to tell her story,” Erivo, who earned her first Oscar nomination last year for “Harriet,” tells me on this week’s episode of the “Just for Variety” podcast.Finding Franklin’s essence meant studying recordings, concert footage, interviews and even game show appearances. “I saw her on a game show and she was very quiet, very demure, very coy,” says the 34-year-old British singer and actor. “She pulled it back and it would make the person lean into her..
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