It honestly feels like the Wicked promotion has been happening for years now, probably because the production itself was so scandalous. Ariana Grande left her husband during filming, and she had an affair with Ethan Slater, who also had to get a divorce. That was last year. Then, throughout this year, Ariana and Cynthia Erivo have been doing joint-appearances everywhere together, and they even got sent to the Paris Olympics to hype Wicked. Well, the first Wicked film comes out on November 22. That’s why Ariana and Cynthia cover the November issue of Vanity Fair. It’s a ghastly cover, holy crap. I do not understand why anyone would do this to Cynthia and Ari.
The Vanity Fair piece – which I only skimmed, full disclosure – is basically a behind-the-scenes story about how long it’s taken to adapt the Broadway musical to film, and how the project languished in development for so many years. While I’m not interested in anything to do with Wicked and while I think the editorial is really awful, I have to admit that Cynthia and Ariana are genuinely funny together. They really bonded during filming and they have a lot of chemistry together. Case in point is their VF lie-detector video. Ariana doesn’t believe in the moon landing, LMAO.
The moon landing! It happened!
Watch @WickedMovie stars Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande take VF’s infamous lie detector test: https://t.co/9Kc1x0QQ8L pic.twitter.com/pUihP07Bxl
— VANITY FAIR (@VanityFair) September 30, 2024
Covers courtesy of Vanity Fair.
Somehow they managed to poorly light both subjects. An impressive feat.
I used to root for Cynthia Erivo back in the day before I saw her Tweets made disparaging Black Americans. She is a first generation like me, but her Nigerian-Briton while I am Nigerian-American. So, she really made me proud, but she sucks for fueling division within the Black community. Even as a fan of the Oz stories, I genuinely have no interest in seeing this film.
Aw that’s such a bummer. I always really liked her, too 🙁
Sometimes I wish celebs would just….say less.
As someone who immigrated as a child, I think immigrants need to study more before they say anything about group who are not in power. the folks in power aren’t going to tell you the truth about their existence, in fact it’s unlikely they actually know the truth about their existence. So speaking on their situation because they look like you superficially, we often get you in trouble
LOL the cover with the blue dress is comically bad. I’m just so over the Wicked look with the bleached eyebrows, unflattering hair color, and shiny nose.
And they did Cynthia wrong here too. This is a woman who’s smile and energy lights up a room yet somehow they managed to make her look stiff and lifeless. At least get some good shots of her amazing nail game FFS.
I have watched Cynthia Erivo sing Alfie about 100 times 😍
It is crazy how different she sounds. I know, she explained why she uses her voice like that, but it seems impossible to me that a person can change their speaking voice like that.
They did dirty to both of them with these horrible pics. Why are big magazine photoshoots so sh*t recently? Vogue is the same.
First photo:
Ariana looks like she’s wearing mommy’s clothes. Is that intentional? The shoes, the empty bra cups … what is happening?
I don’t understand why Ariana is put much higher in the photo composition? I see Ariana…. oh, and then I see Cynthia is also on the cover?!
AG has talent as a singer. But why is she stylized to always look so young?
Isn’t she late 20’s IRL?
I have zero interest in seeing Wicked. Zero.
Seems like it’s been in production/press for years now.
I absolutely fell in love with the book when it was released. Then I saw the musical and almost cried, they had completely reworked the plot, lost the political intrigue and given a story with a subtext of “there aren’t any happy endings” a fucking happy ending. 👎🏻 even if I wouldn’t be supporting a home wrecker (sorry Ari), it would be a no from me.
I don’t believe in Ari.
In the video she says that she believes that the Moon Landing happened, and then Stephanie implies that the lie detector said she’s lying. She was really pretty adamant that it’s real. Check the 18:50-ish mark.