Cynthia Erivo “uncontrollably wept” when she saw herself in ‘Wicked’

nme.com:

Wicked. In an interview for Awardist, Erivo was asked how many times she’s seen the film. She replied that she’d seen it a total of nine times, both at premieres and before the movie came out.

Once she’d processed seeing herself on screen after her first viewing, the second was where things got emotional.“The very first time I saw it, there was so much coming at me that I was completely overwhelmed and I think my brain completely blanked out,” Erivo said. “I erased myself from the movie.

I was like, ‘I don’t think I was in that. I don’t think I was there’.“And the second time I saw it, I wept — like, uncontrollably wept.

I couldn’t even articulate how grateful I felt to even be a part of it. I couldn’t properly articulate how glad I was to see all the things I wanted of this character to be on screen.