After an Instagram account called @wickedmexicofans posted fan art of the poster of Wickedupcoming film the actress Cynthia Erivo He showed his displeasure at this. This before his visit to Mexico in November.
And through his Instagram stories, he shared the illustration that covered part of Elphaba’s face and considered it an “insult” and “invisibility.”
“This is the most cruel and offensive thing I’ve ever seen, comparable to that horrible AI that introduces us to combat, comparable to people asking ‘is your p… green?'” reads part of his story .
She also added that it’s not funny because she thinks it’s “humiliating.”
“None of this is funny. None of this is sweet. It humiliates me. It humiliates us,” he added.
Given the gesture by his Mexican fandom, which he will visit in November with Ariana Grande, he considers the illustration “painful.”
“I am a real human being who chose to look directly down the barrel of the camera at you, the viewer…because without words we communicate with our eyes. Our poster is an homage, not an imitation; Editing my face and hiding my eyes erases me. And that is deeply painful.”
So far, fans have not commented on the topic.
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