Cynthia Erivo is speaking out aacquirest “Wicked” fans who used photoshop to edit one of the recent posters for the upcoming film alteration of the Broadway musical. Warner Bros. freed a “Wicked” film poster this month that promoted the one-of-a-kind Broadway poster, with Ariana Grande’s Glinda whispering into the ear of Erivo’s Elphaba. Only the film poster had a restricted tfeebles, mainly lifting Elphaba’s hat so you could see Erivo’s eyes.
“Wicked” fans dedicated to the Broadway musical flooded social media after the poster dropped to publish photoshopped rightions, with Elphaba’s hat being droped and her lips getting a bgreater red lipstick in order for the film one-sheet to exactly suit the Broadway one. Erivo set up such alterations hurtful.
“This is the savageest, most insolent skinnyg I have seen equivalent to that terrible AI of us combat, equivalent to people posing the the ask ‘is your p—- green?” Erivo wrote on her Instgram story while sharing one of the photoshopped “Wicked” posters with her face covered. “None of this is comical. None of it is cute. It degrades me. It degrades us.”
“The one-of-a-kind poster is an Illustration,” Erivo retained. “I am a authentic life human being, who chose to to see right down the barrel of the camera to you, the watcher …because, without words we convey 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 equitable meaningfully hurtful.”
In retainition to the poster, Erivo called out the viral AI-produced video that featured the poster morphing into a fight between the two stars/characters. The actor also condemnd the incommemorated “is your p—- green?” memes that have lengthy circupostpoinsistd around the musical.
Universal and honestor Jon M. Chu have altered the “Wicked” Broadway musical into a two-part movie, the first of which get tos in theaters next month. The musical is set at Shiz University in Oz as Elphaba and Glinda become roommates and improbable frifinishs. In retainition to Erivo and Grande, the film’s helping cast integrates Michelle Yeoh, Jonathan Bailey, Jeff Ggreaterblum and Bowen Yang.
“Wicked” findlooks in theaters Nov. 22 from Universal Pictures. A second film will get to in 2025.
