Cynthia Erivo Has Called Her Controversial Response To The “Wicked” Fan Art A “Human Moment” Reflective Of “The Little Girl” In Her

One X user shared their fan art edit, which included Elphaba’s hat being lower, covering her eyes, and Glinda’s hand being higher. The now-deleted tweet quickly went viral, gaining hundreds of thousands of likes and retweets at the time.

However, Cynthia herself was left less than impressed by the art, and took to social media to address the situation.

Sharing the edit to her story, Cynthia wrote: “This is the wildest, most offensive thing I have seen, equal to that awful AI of us fighting, equal to people posing the question, 'is your ***** green.'"

"None of this is funny. None of this is cute. It degrades me. It degrades us. The original poster is an ILLUSTRATION. I am a real life human being, who chose to look right down the barrel of the camera to you, the viewer ...because, without words we communicate with our eyes," she went on.

"Our poster is an homage not an imitation, to edit my face and hide my eyes is to erase me. And that is deeply hurtful," Cynthia claimed, before reposting the original movie poster and writing: “Let me put this right here, to remind you and cleanse your palette."