Cynthia Erivo Slams Fan Edit of ‘Wicked’ Poster: About the Controversy

Cynthia Erivo, who performs Elphaba within the upcoming “Depraved” film, is condemning a fan-edited poster for the movie making rounds on the web.

“That is the wildest, most offensive factor I’ve seen,” Erivo wrote on her IG tales Oct. 16 beneath the altered piece of artwork for the movie, which depicted Erivo and Ariana Grande as their respective characters, Elphaba and Glinda.

Within the authentic model of the film art work, first shared by Common on Oct. 9, Erivo is trying straight forward along with her eyes totally seen, and her lips are inexperienced. However within the altered model shared on Erivo’s IG story, her eyes have been hidden by her hat and her lip was shiny pink and curled upward.

Grande was left principally untouched in addition to her hand being moved greater as much as present much less of her face.

Erivo wrote that the fan-edited model shouldn’t be “cute” and “degrades” her, persevering with, “I’m a real-life human being, who selected to look proper down the barrel of the digicam to you, the viewer. . . as a result of, with out phrases we talk with our eyes.”

Erivo then identified in her IG story that the unique Broadway poster, which the film poster was impressed by, was “an ILLUSTRATION.”

When “Depraved” premiered on Broadway in 2003, the illustration of Glinda whispering into Elphaba’s ear was plastered on posters in all places. Within the picture, Elphaba’s eyes are hidden beneath her hat’s rim, her lips tucked upwards right into a red-lipped smirk, whereas Glinda’s eye will be seen on her aspect profile.

“Our poster is a homage, not an imitation,” Erivo continued in her message. “To edit my face and conceal my eyes is to erase me. And that’s simply deeply hurtful.”

After calling out the fan-edited picture, Erivo posted one other Instagram story with the film’s authentic art work, writing, “Let me put this proper right here, to remind you and cleanse your palette.” The movie’s director Jon M. Chu reshared Erivo’s slide on his personal Instagram Story in help.

Followers appear to be break up over Erivo’s response to the fan-edited model of the film’s poster, with some expressing help of her response and why it was justified.

One X consumer wrote, “All of you supposed ‘depraved followers’ ought to be f—ing ashamed of yourselves. I don’t care how a lot you like the unique poster. For a present that is all about prejudice and the colour of a younger lady’s pores and skin the racism couldn’t be any clearer. You don’t deserve this movie,” one X consumer wrote.

One other penned, “Re: the Depraved poster controversy: the optics of enhancing a Black, queer lady’s face aren’t nice. All they’ve executed to Ariana is transfer her hand, whereas they’ve hidden Cynthia’s eyes and altered her mouth.”

On the flip aspect, some felt that the edit was merely honoring the unique Broadway poster.

“Lady, they was not erasing you… individuals simply needed the brand new poster to match the identical power because the Unique Depraved poster… you recognize, one along with her eyes lined and she or he’s smirking…” one individual stated on X.

One other wrote, “Oh good grief. Inform me you’ve by no means seen Depraved The Broadway Musical poster with out telling me.”