Wicked movie star Cynthia Erivo has voiced her frustration over fan-made alterations to the movie’s promotional poster and the circulation of offensive online content.
Universal recently unveiled a new poster for the highly anticipated film, featuring Erivo’s Elphaba and Ariana Grande‘s Glinda in a homage to the original Broadway artwork. Notably, the new poster lifts Elphaba’s hat to reveal Erivo’s eyes.
A fan of the musical took to social media to share photoshopped versions of the poster. These edits lowered Elphaba’s hat to obscure her eyes and added bold red lipstick, aiming to more closely replicate the original Broadway design.
Erivo expressed her disappointment on her Instagram story, sharing one of the altered images. “This is the wildest, most offensive thing I have seen,” she wrote. “Equal to that awful AI of us fighting, equal to people posing offensive questions about my body. None of this is funny. None of it is cute. It degrades me. …