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.
Cynthia Erivo Slams 'Wicked' Poster Edits & AI: 'Most Offensive Thing I Have Seen'
justjared.comCynthia Erivo is not happy with Wicked fan edis. The 37-year-old actress, who plays Elphaba in the upcoming film adaptation, shared a post on her Instagram Story calling out Photoshop tweaks to the movie’s poster, which is a take on the original Broadway poster, including Elphaba’s hat being lowered and her lips getting a bolder red color to match the original poster.
In addition to the poster, she called out the viral AI-created video that featured the poster morphing into a fight between herself and co-star Ariana Grande, as well as the infamous “is your p—- green?” memes that have been around since the musical. Keep reading to find out more… “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?’” she wrote. “None of this is funny.
None of it is cute. It degrades me. It degrades us.” “The original poster is an Illustration,” she added. “I am a real life human being, who chose to to look right down the barrel of the camera to you, the viewer …because, without words we communicate with our eyes.
Our poster is an homage not an imitation, to edit my face and hide my eyes is to erase me. And that is just deeply hurtful.” Find out which 4 stars auditioned to play Glinda in Wicked, which Ariana Grande ultimately landed.
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