Wicked’s Cynthia Erivo Slams Edited Movie Poster

Cynthia Erivo is not holding back.

The Wicked star clapped back on social media after the poster for the upcoming movie musical—in which Cynthia stars as Elphaba alongside Ariana Grande’s Glinda—was edited by a fan account to imitate the original musical poster in which Elphaba’s face is shadowed by her hat, save for her mouth.

“This is the wildest, most offensive thig I have seen,” Cynthia wrote on her Oct. 16 Instagram Story, above the doctored poster, comparing it to inappropriate questions that have been sent her way regarding her green skin in the film. “None of this is funny. None of it is cute. It degrades me. It degrades us.”

She continued, “The original poster is an ILLUSTRATION. I am a real life human being, who chose to look right down the barrel of the camera to you, the viewer …because, without words we communicate with our eyes.”

The Tony winner also took a moment to differentiate between the film and the musical.

“Our poster is an homage not an imitation,” she explained, before adding, “to edit my face and hide my eyes is to erase me. And that is just deeply hurtful.”

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