Cynthia Erivo talks to Variety about people joking about her being Ariana Grandeâs âbodyguardâ after she defended her from a red carpet intruder:
âI think that we havenât really come to terms with the insidious nature of how we view Black women. And Iâm sure people will read this and think, âOh, for goodnessâ sake, itâs not about that.â But it is. Because thatâs what was being made fun of. It was my physique; it was my shape; it was the fact that I was bald; it was about what I looked like. And because of that, there was this assumption that I was bigger than my co-star and so I had to be controlling or protecting, and that was my role. I would hazard a guess that it would not have been the same had it been the other way around.â