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.
Wicked and Gladiator II, two of this year’s most highly anticipated movies, are being released on the same day later this year. Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, and Jonathan Bailey star in Wicked, the film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical. Paul Mescal and Pedro Pascal star in the Gladiator sequel.
You may remember that in the summer of 2023, the same situation occurred with Barbie and Oppenheimer. Fans dubbed it “Barbenheimer,” and had everyone flocking to theaters to see both critically acclaimed movies.
Now, Paul is responding to both Wicked and his Gladiator movie having the same release date. Keep reading to find out more… He told ET, “Wickdiator doesn’t really roll off the tongue does it?
I think my preference would probably be Glicked if it has a similar effect to what it did for Barbie and Oppenheimer. It would be amazing ’cause I think the films couldn’t be more polar opposites and it worked in that context previously.
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