The stars of the long-awaited silver screen adaptation of the Broadway hit Wicked have been widely ridiculed for their gruesome behavior on the pre-release press tour, culminating in a recent interview that's utter nonsense It became a hot topic on the internet.
Inside the clip shared tens of millions of times Out magazine reporter Tracy Gilchrist wrote online to co-star Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo that people are taking the lyrics of “Defying Gravity,” one of the musical's big numbers, with a grain of salt. I heard the lyrics really hold space and I could feel the power in them.” ”
Erivo, 37, clutched her hand to her chest, clearly emotionally overwhelmed by Gilchrist's puzzling noun-verb pairings.
“I didn't know that was happening. It's really powerful,” she said, almost out of breath.
“Hmm, hmmm,” Gilchrist said, confirming that Erivo was suitably moved by the revelation.
“That's…what I wanted,” Erivo said of the 20-year-old song, written by famed composer Stephen Schwartz.
She looked towards Grande, nodded solemnly in apparent agreement, and then clasped her co-star's index finger.
“I didn't know that was happening,” the British actress shrieked, her voice catching in her throat.
Gilchrist then let the air out of the balloon so quickly that people online wondered if she was being trolled.
“I've seen it in some posts, I don't know how widespread it is, but you know, I've been in queer media, so it's about me, you know. , but yeah, it's happening,” she said.
This unusual exchange sparked a firestorm on social media, with many struggling to understand what was actually being conveyed and why it caused such strong emotional reactions from the film's stars. I couldn't do it.
One Instagram user quipped: “It feels like a fever dream.”
“What’s really going on?” another deadpanned.
Some adopted a new term that quickly went viral, coined by Gilchrist to poke fun at actresses.
One commenter quipped, “We're saving space for when this press tour finally ends.”
The controversial $150 million blockbuster, which ran for two hours and 40 minutes, was split into two separate films, with “Wicked Part 2” set to be released next November.
Throughout the press tour around the world, the actresses' strange behavior raised eyebrows. The painted gale of ridicule.
Earlier this month, at an event focused on the cast's fashion, a blogger pointedly asked the women in front of the camera, “What are the common misconceptions people have about the duo?”
Ms. Grande, 31, who is American but had been sporting a British accent not too long ago, literally gasped loudly and then banged her head at her co-star.
“I have no idea what the common misconception is, but it's not about fashion, is it?” Erivo later responded with a jab at being criticized for being “rude”.
Erivo also made headlines last month when he passed out over a fan-made poster for the film adaptation, which was created in the style of an advertisement for the original Broadway show, with his character's hat pulled down over his eyes.
“[T]Editing my face or hiding my eyes is erasing me,” she wrote on her Instagram Story at the time.
“This is the wildest, most offensive thing I've ever seen. None of this is funny. None of this is cute. It degrades me. It degrades us. ” she continued.
“The original poster is an illustration,” she said. “I am a real person and I choose to look directly under the camera barrel at you, the viewer…because we communicate with our eyes, without words. ”
She later tried to take back her embarrassing outburst, chalking the finger wag to a “little human moment” and blaming it on the strength of her reaction. ”
