After an Instagram account called @wickedmexicofans published fan art of the poster Wickedsoon to be released film, actress Cynthia Erivo He has shown his dissatisfaction with it. This was before his visit to Mexico in November.
And via his Instagram Stories he shared an illustration that covered part of Elphaba's face and deemed it a “violation” and “invisible”.
“This is the most barbaric and offensive thing I have ever seen, comparable to the terrible AI that represents us fighting, comparable to people asking 'is your p…green?'” the story read in part.
Apart from that, he also added that it was not funny because he thought it was “degrading”.
“None of this is funny. None of this is funny. It humbles me. It humbles us,” he added.
Given his fandom's attitude to Mexico, where he will visit in November with Ariana Grande, he found the illustrations “painful.”
“I am a real human being who chooses to look directly at you, the viewer… because, without words, we communicate with our eyes. Our poster is an homage, not a copy; Editing my face and hiding my eyes is erasing me. And it really hurts.”
So far the fandom has not commented on this issue.
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