this is actually heartbreaking to watch. cynthia was so happy to be cast as elphaba and now she can’t even talk about wicked because of what the internet put her through. i hope everyone who bullied her for years is ashamed of what they did.
I will never forgive the world for taking the success & friendship of two women and turning it into ammunition to be cruel and vile.
They deserve an apology.
Cynthia Erivo responds to jokes about her being Ariana Grande’s “bodyguard” after defending her from an intruder on the ‘WICKED: FOR GOOD’ red carpet:
“I think that we haven’t really come to terms with the insidious nature of how we view Black women. And I’m sure people will read this and think, ‘Oh, for goodness’ sake, it’s not about that.’ But it is. Because that’s 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.”
(https://t.co/pkFv1w9JR2)