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Nobody let Cynthia Erivo go on Archive of Our Own. She might stumble upon a story with the logline: “Elphaba doesn’t like to be interrupted when she’s hard at work, but Glinda has other plans,” tagged “Dom/sub.” The actress took issue with a fan-made version of the Wicked poster that more closely aligns with the original Broadway version on October 16 on her Instagram Story. “This is the wildest, most offensive thing I have seen,” she posted in response to the edit, originally made by X user @midosommar. Erivo explained her intention behind the changes to the film’s poster, including the newly found eye contact, saying that “I am a real life human being, who chose to to [sic] look down the barrel of the camera to you, the viewer … because, without words we communicate with our eyes.” She additionally claimed that “to edit my face and hide my eyes is to erase me. And that is just deeply hurtful.”
@midosommar, the creator of the edit, responded to Erivo’s post in a tweet. “My initial intent with the poster was not malicious in any way — it was an edit I made in 10 mins to pay homage to the original poster and had no intention of it blowing up like it did,” he wrote. “I deleted the original post out of respect for Cynthia.”
In her Instagram story, Erivo also decried both the longtime trend in which people post pictures of Elphaba and Galinda interacting in some way with the caption “Is your pussy green?” and an AI-made video in which the two fight. “None of this is funny,” she wrote. “None of this is cute.” We do kind of wonder what she thinks of the color-changing Wicked-themed macaroni and cheese now.
