Exactly! Nothing about her hissy fit had to do with the role. The Broadway show is the OG, so freaking out about being made to look like the OG isn't protecting the role.
Knowing that interview where she said that Elphaba is like her now, I believe that she was forced to apologize after her tantrum, if Cynthia would get away with hers, she weren't apologize with nobody.
Especially when the character has been portrayed by other actors and done better. There is nothing she brings to the character that someone who came before her didn't do and did it better than her !
I have never seen Wicked. Now, if I have the opportunity, I will go see the play in a theater. I will not waste my time watching this simulacrum with this actress’s self insert.
Probably made to act that way. It was scripted, as always the case in these "interviews". PR was desperately trying to downplay the issue but still keep the "modernAudience" satisfied.
@@Leamichellefan2244 It was her justification. The interviewer praised her for it and she replied with her justification. This is not regret. This is not an apology. The fact that they are trying to twist it into something it clearly isn't should be put "On Blast" as much as she is.
The level of self-absorption is stunning! She wasn’t trying to protect her character. She made this all about herself, not the fans who love and know the characters better than she ever will.
She's either insane... she identifies with a fictional evil witch with green skin... or she doesn't understand she was protecting herself... it "Demeaned" HER, not the evil witch of west. Actresses in Modern Hollywood are downright creepy at times. It makes me wonder what they really do on the nights of the full moon!
"It degrades ME" "I am a real-life human being" "to edit MY eyes and hide MY face is to erase ME" She saw too much of herself in the character and forgot that it's not her being seen up there. All because of a fan edit that would change nothing of the official promotional materials.
In her statement, she actively removed herself from the character and it made it about her, instead of the character and the work. While i want to see wicked, i wont pay for it, will wait til it comes on streaming, have for other movies before
The studio knows it was a photoshop image made by a fan, because the fan included all their work in the video!! They must have intentionally claimed it was an "AI", since an AI doesn't have any feelings. Erivo was so cruel to that poor person who was just trying to improve on the dumb looking movie poster. The way she says her non-apology about "protecting little Elphaba" was just so insincere because we know Erivo was ranting about herself being "erased"!
Never mind the fact that this wasn’t an apology this was just a justification for oh look at me. I can say whatever I want and then like somebody else said I don’t know if you seen that interview with that other lady who basically just kissed her weird like this guy is doing better. It’s sickening.
What bothers me more than the outburst is she put that fan account on blast and before it got more wider known and criticized there were people who rushed to attack the person who owns that account and call them racist.
"I probably should have called my friends, but it's fine." Oh really, Cynthia? I think it's the fans who call the shots on whether it's fine, not you. Sounds like another Rachel Zeigler with her insults, dismissive comments, doubling down and non-apologies. She also appears to have an echo chamber around her that feed into her sense of self-importance. Let's see how that plays out for her.
Yeah, I loved how she slipped that in, "but it's fine". No, it's not "fine" for the lead actress to terrorize some poor random Wicked fan online, just because they tried to improve on your ugly poster. Erivo has that prima donna diva mentality, that she can do no wrong. I suppose we'll find out soon.
In the old days, Actors had PR agents to suggest what they should and shouldn't say in public to protect their image. But now, thanks to social media, we can all see what horrible excuses for human beings they truly are. Another reason why Hollywood is burning.
when i was growing up people had mid to high opinion of most stars now my same family couldn't care less if HW dropped off the plate in next tectonic sparing match the planet will have
@Larry Most of the new actresses before 2015 undergoes some sort of seminar on how to carry themselves in public. But youre right, giving them access to social media to interact with the public is a huge mistake.
Fancy seeing you here Guru Larry. You are correct prior to Social Media people kept their mouths shut and had PR agents handle the stuff now they get triggered so easily that they shit their stuff all over the internet for everybody to see.
The thing with the AI, that I love, is it proves exactly the way I feel about Hollywood actors and actresses, their immaterial. What they could do is take the original film of the wicked witch from The Wizard of Oz movie and use software to make her look younger but Margaret Hamilton would be the one playing her character rather than this stupid tw8t. Or anyone else for that matter and you know what's great about that it does away with all actors and actresses they have to get out there and do real job. When I lived in California every time we go out to eat any of the waitresses or waiters that we met who would say I'm your server so and so here's the menu I'll be back to take your order but every single time they did that either giving us the menus or taking them away they would always feel the need to say this isn't my real job I'm actually an actor or an actress. So I said can you act like a waitress then or a waiter? My parents are always give me a check under the table but when we left to go home or to go wherever if depending on what day it was I'd say I get sick and tired of hearing him say that why don't they just say what they are if they're a waiter or waitress then be a waiter or waitress you don't need to say but I'm really an actor or actress why we don't even look like this type who would be a Hollywood producer. Yeah it's time for them to use the AI and give the finger to all these swelled head Nut Cases out there.
she'd has the mindset of being easily offended has clout ... cause of her being bl@ck. justifying her biting the hamds that feeds her (in this case, indirectly fans). probably not someone people like to hang out with.
She will not genuinely apologize. She should be humbled, and I hope she is humbled. These actors, once they think they have success, their egos become incredibly large, and obnoxious.
@@TLCossaboon There is a problem with the use of green lipstick as it just has no reason to exist. The red lipstick showed her trying to modify herself to fit in a world where she can't.
I *highly* doubt she made that choice. Actors get some say, but the artists behind the show & the higher ups make most of the choices. IMO, I don't think a decent red would've looked good w the green they used for her. I saw a whole video w the makeup artist talking about the looong process of finding the perfect green for her skin & lighting on set. They added a neon yellow makeup (only found in Canada) to the green. I'm not sure what shade of red would've worked best w that green; maybe an orangey red, which would've just looked very blah imo but I'm biased against orangey reds.
It’s already too late. She buzzkilled the hype, and there’s nothing they can do to fully make amend with the fanbase before release. The awkwardness has settled in. One asshole killed an entire party.
This. I was actually looking forward to watching this movie cause I absolutely loved the musical. I just can’t deal with these celebrities and their victim mentality.
I'm one of those who want to see this movie fail. I'm so damn tired of actors, studios, and directors attacking fans. No more. They must learn that they need fans. WE DO NOT NEED THEM.
She is well known on Broadway and as a stage actor but this is supposed to be her breakout role on screen. Seeing how it's going i don't think we will be seeing her star in anymore big films for awhile.
@Karu_the_Kiwi I'm French, I have never heard from her. She might be known in the US but not abroad so that's a great way to kill a career. Big yikes.
“I really apologize to the fans of wicked. I’m only human and I let my ego get the better of me. I really hope everyone shows up to see the movie because it is truly great.” Very hard to say this, I know
"...a human moment of wanting to protect little Elphaba..." Oh, no no no. The fan poster erased YOU. It degraded YOU. Not once in your screed did you ever mention anything about the character.
Yes. How was she defending the CHARACTER in any way? She wasn't, she got butthurt because the edit somehow "erased" her because it hid her eyes, while she was just having empty stare in that image. I could not pick any emotions or thoughts from her face unlike from the musical poster. It's a generic blank stare.
Exactly. She talked about being an actress and looking down the barrel of a camera. It was all about the actress, not the character she's now trying to use as cover for her outburst.
My guess is she has no idea that it was a homage to a pre-existing poster and just went into full blown "i'm a black victim" mode. And now there's a MSM red-carpet-gremlin "yasqween"ing her with toxic-positivity whilst she tries to backtrack on the obvious meltdown.
she was aware of the original poster, she referenced it in her post. if she hadn't, her reaction would've been a tad bit more "understandable" but yeah, no, she knew very well that someone simply recreated the original poster 😑
She never apologized. And her subsequent interview with that other woman simping desperately for her, she continues to say its all about her. Keep her cancelled.
Oh my God yes, she never apologized. This was a BS justification and yes, that other interview where she just went on and on and on and on about how it’s all about her oh my God and the sad part is I don’t think she’s done yet. I don’t think we’ve heard the last of her or her little army of sycophants.
Her answer aside, I found the kissing up of reporter asking the question absolutely ridiculous. He basically set the tone for her answer, precluding the fact that she needs to apologize at all and so she gladly obliged and then the conversation went on to the favourite celebrity topic: themselves and their outfits, thus making the backlash look as a nonsense. How shallow and pathetic.
Exactly she’s not sorry he’s not sorry he spent the whole time kissing her rear and if you want to see any more evidence of that nonsense look at the interview she did with Renee Rapp now that’s just vomit.
The ET reporter went also went full idiot mode. 'It was just a poster, you are a human being' - and that poster advertised a play in which Elphaba was played by whom, a penguin instead of a human being? Both pictures feature an entirely fictitious character, the changes were done to that character, not to the actress.
"Trying to protect little Elphaba..." She wasn't trying to protect anything but her outsized ego. Feels like she got read the riot act by the studio and got told to fix this shit.
"Trying to protect little elphaba..." Then why did she talk about how _she_ as the actor was being degraded, and how people were asking or saying to _her_ unsavory things. Not elphaba, but her
@@catelynh1020tbh she has every right to get mad at being asked unsavoury things. But she put it in the same sentence as the fan made poster 😭😭😭 like wtf.
'Wicked: The life and times of the Wicked Witch of the West' was written by Gregory Maguire and first came out in 1995. Follow up novel is 'Son of a Witch' about Elphaba's child. Did one on the cowardly lion and other Oz characters. I suggest people read the original novels. They are quite good.
In the old days, the ET reporter would have asked: "So you made some spirited remarks about that fan-edited Wicked poster recently. Do you have anything you want to say to the fans about this controversy?" Not exactly a Mike Wallace gotcha question, but it would have given her an opportunity to explain without making it sound like the reporter was her publicist.
She is still a spoiled rich brat. Which is concerning. There are movies about spoiled kids and teenagers learning to become humble and responsible people who take accountability for their actions and behavior at the end of the film. But I guess it's just movies. Because IRL, they never learn.
Two fans were slapped by her, and one of them, the one who did the repost, even received threats. And this poor excuse of a human didn't even bother to send some form of apology to the reposter or even a message to her followers not to threaten or harrass the reposter whom she's thrown under the bus by copy-pasting their IG name. How uncultured!
Not to mention, she doesn't even know where they're from, what's their race, or gender, sexuality etc. But of course, in her mind the reposter is a straight, white, American cis male 😂😂😂
@crazyralph6386 I actually got that expression from a Story my Grandma told me about my Deceased Granddad speaking to his son. The to the bone was the son's reply to the Dad.
Which please even if Elphaba was real she wouldn’t need her help. 😂 Elphaba is an abusive murderer in the books so yeah I’m kind of tired of this oh she’s so sweet. No she was a horrible person that was kind of the point.
@ninjagirl226 The musical turned her into a sympathetic heroine. Instead of "Wizard of Oz gone dark," it became, "Wicked Witch was misunderstood". Still, I kinda liked how the musical showed the limits of activism, especially when you push other people away.
That was a non-apology and that interviewer was lame too. "That was a cartoon animation"? He has no idea what he is talking about and his tone when he says that, as if to belittle the iconic poster. Also, what would talking to her friends is going to do? She's just going to get the same feedback that this guy gave her. "Yeah! You should clap back! That was a cartoon animation".
The manner in which the interviewer asked her the question, and gave her overwhelming positive support for what she did, is indicative of the echo-chamber of people around her that made her respond that way in the first place. "You're a bad-ass clap-back queen!" "It was just speaking out, and I loved it!" "Your point made so much sense!" Imagine hearing that from literally every person in your sphere? That's why she did it, without fearing the repercussions. I'm sure the movie studio and her agents were on the phone within minutes, to guide how she'd recover.
The movie’s job is to erase the Wizard of Oz and replace it with “witches are good and ‘good’ characters are bad.” Just like Disney Star Wars’ job was to make Luke a loser and promote “gray” morality.
@@SuperEndiku no please don’t hate me, but I still personally love the play because even with the play on Broadway, you can still tell who’s good and who’s bad but the movie is definitely trying to make the wicked witch to the bus the victim, especially with the casting choice yes I went there. No, I don’t care.
@@SuperEndikuit was earlier in the period of cultural demoralization though when they actually wrote the story well and the subversion was more intelligent.
If memory serves the Wicked play was one of the vanguards of the “humanize the villain” trend, thus it was much more palatable and novel than the crap that came after it.
The studio and her manager are behind this statement. She has already shown her true “perpetual victim” colours and no doubt 100% believes a fan poster tribute was an attempt to erase her.
you people are all so butthurt and don't even see how everyone is over reacting. Yoou should know that many people have put their time and effort in this movie, to boycot the movie based on one reaction of one person is disrespcting everyone else that has worked on it and put their love in it.
@misterae6430 😂😂 when the lead actress scolds a fan for her art...yeah she deserves to be boycotted. Someone like that doesn't deserve to have her movie seen.
@@misterae6430 a film is made of hundreds of people all working together to tell one story. When all those people work together for the best outcome, the best outcome occurs. But if the people who take the spotlight and attention end up doing stupid things hurting those people, The teamwork is compromised. The CGI artists, audio, mixers, lighting, and other behind-the-scenes departments did not hurt their careers by Cynthia’s comment, but they were already paid. An animator who does good work on bad animated films is just a regular person doing a job. Just because people worked hard and to produce this movie does not mean they are entitled to success.
No intention of seeing the movie now. Told the wife she can watch it with friends. Refuse to spend my money on these people that are stuck up narcissist.
Agreed. Even if this were a movie I was really excited about watching on the big screen, I would refuse to give that literal witch a single dime. Just knowing how self-centered, narcissistic and entitled Erivo is in real life would ruin the film for me. Actors should be smart enough to keep their damn mouths shut unless the cameras are rolling.
Wait...did you hear what the interviewer said, "The AI Poster" - the poster wasn't AI, the AI Fightscene was something completely unrelated. So he got the facts wrong and wrongly assumed from there. Nice.
Her outburst held a key word continuously: "My". It had nothing to do with protecting the character, and if THIS is the most egregious thing she has ever saw, she lives in a bubble. Also with interviewers stroking her ego like that it's no wonder she lives in her head/emotions.
I'm surprised that studios allow this. With so much money involved, one would think actors would have to sign contracts agreeing to keep their opinions OFF social media until well after a movie is released. Something along the lines of, if you harm the movie, it comes out of your check.
How do you define a human moment? Better question: How do you define an apology? Usually there's an 'I'm sorry' in there somewhere and I didn't hear anything like that.
I saw the her staement and she does NOT regret attacking fans. The only thing she talked about was her and her emotional status, because that is all that's important to her. "It''s, fine...I should have called my friends." If she had them to call, she would have in the first place. Human moment...most humans don't act like that after a certain age.
"I should have called my friends" is already a tad of an overreaction when you are 37 and pretending to be offended by a tasteful and sensible fan edit of a movie poster.
The AI aspect is a red herring. Her original rant referred to an AI-generated joke video of the 2 witches fighting. But this poster was NOT AI-generated. It was created by a fan, "a real live human being" whom Erivo callously dragged into the social media arena for a public thrashing. This could have resulted in the fan being swarmed and doxxed by Erivo's supporters, and her life made miserable. Just a few years ago, that would have been the case, but barely-known actors hurling accusations don't have the same clout they once did. Erivo is trying to minimize her cruelty by pretending that she was just attacking some robot, not a human being.
@SeasideDetective2 alot of people didn't want to see the movie BECAUSE Ariana is in it. Lol Cynthia was the reason I was going to see it along for my sister who's a big fan of the wizard of oz stuff. Now I'm not interested, but I'll still watch It if my sister ends up wanting to see it still tho.
@SeasideDetective2 yes they do. Not everyone has to like a certain celebrity and Noone most certainly has to kiss ass to one. Ariana has done alot of stupid things. Said alot of stupid things and will continue to do so. We're not idol worshipping anymore. It's toxic.
@@SeasideDetective2 What about Ariana? I didn't mention anyone by name, but rather, I said I hope the "movie" bombs at the box office. So, wouldn't that include Grande? And Goldblum, Yeoh, and those arseholes Dinklage and Slater? Quit deflecting and trying to split hairs.
She didn’t have a human moment she had a tantrum. She tried to garner oppression points, and it backfired. Will it affect the movie? I don’t believe so. Just like any other fanbase, most of the fans will still give the support of a first time movie adaptation of their franchise.
Thank the good Lord, the majority of people see this for what it is, but then you’ve got her army telling all of us that we were never really apologize for.
@@sphinxkat I agree the majority have been saying no and I’m one of the ones that say no but again like I said you’ve got her army saying if you don’t go see it because of her then you were never really a fan of wicked.
I mean this funny cause I have mental health and recently got a septum piercing, but you don't see me attacking fans for doing a fan made art for poster on film based on Broadway musical. So not really a sign that they have mental health issues, it's just how some people are when their feelings get hurt and no one cares and can't just let it go.
Agent only? The movie director and maybe 1 person from the production company who paid for the movie. If one dollar is missing from the budget projection they expect to make, she'll be blamed for it.
This was a niche broadway show now made in an even more niche musical movie and the BEST idea of a reaction to a FAN edited poster was to attack that person and cry racism? THIS, Hollywood, THIS is why no one wants to consume your product in any significant numbers. Skip this movie.
Excuse me? Have you been living under the rock in the past 2 decades? Wicked was definitely NOT a “niche” broadway show. In fact quite the opposite it was and still is one of the most popular and bestselling broadway musical of all time. I haven never seen a broadway show but even I know about this. It’s one thing to bash the actress’s behavior but saying the musical was niche just shows how ignorant you are.
Musicals have never been more than a niche thing. The musical theater business, like the overall live theatrical and dance business, is set in its ways and doesn’t change easily. In the U.S. the overall industry focus is on 41 addresses in a relatively small area of Manhattan. Being in a Broadway theater is considered to be the pinnacle of success. As fabulous as it can be, there’s an absolute limit on the number of people who can attend. The price barrier is significant too. The average person cannot afford a ticket to a Broadway show even if transportation and lodging costs are ignored. Broadway has priced itself into a corner. Only the elite can attend. My opinion is that to compete with forms of entertainment that are cheaper and less passive, live theatre has to expand its reach and lower its costs. It’s a complicated challenge but involves the disruption of the current “machine” and a rethinking of how the business can best serve both audience and artists. The business needs to innovate and find a better way of using all the talent in the pool. Only about 2% of professional performers are able to make a living in the industry. Expanding opportunities (as is happening in the film/tv industries) is the key to expanding the audience field of view beyond Broadway and London. In the 2023-2024 season, Broadway shows sold approximately $1.54 billion worth of tickets and had an attendance of about 12.3 million. This was similar to the 2022-2023 season, which also saw about $1.58 billion in ticket sales and 12.2 million attendees. The average price of a ticket for a Broadway musical in 2023-2024 was around $128.50, which was a 4.6% decrease from the previous season. In 2023, movie theaters in the United States and Canada sold about 830 million tickets, which is an increase from the previous year's total of just over 700 million. The average ticket price in 2023 was $10.78.
@@bochenggu1439 HAHAHA...you've never seen a Broadway show....yep, my point exactly? Sure, you've heard of it, so what? You never saw it anymore than you've heard of Cats but never seen it? Broadway shows are, by definition, niche. Understand now ahole keyboard warrior?
@@bochenggu1439 Hahaha...so, you've never seen a Broadway play but Wicked isn't niche because you've HEARD of it? Yeah, that's exactly my point? I've actually HEARD of Cats and saw it when it came to Denver and I would say that going to see a play is DEFINITELY rich person, niche. A niche musical movie based on a niche broadway play AND the star is sneering down her nose at the fans...yep, skip.
I remember, years ago, watching an interview with Elizabeth Taylor - undoubtedly one of the biggest movie stars of her time. She said that if you are running late for a train, but a fan asked for an autograph, you better miss your train, because it is the fans who put you where you are - without them, you are nothing! Pity some modern stars don't seem to realise this, smh.
Here is a better idea for a response: "I am terribly sorry for my response. I clearly overreacted, I can see that now and that the poster edit is a work of love and passion. I apologize for my reaction and hope that the movie will be loved by many people." Interesting is that the reporter apperently thought her overreaction was stunning and brave. I hate this whole clown show!
I didn't even know this existed before the drama, and the more I pay attention the more I hear wicked is steeped in despicable practices and behaviour. So no I won't see it.
Years ago, there was a copy in the doctor's office. I got about 20 pages in and put it back down. I recently watched a critics review of the book and movie. I'm tired of villians being made out to really be sweet but misunderstood nasty deviants.☹️
She meant every word she said and doesn't regret a single syllable. She regrets getting scolded by the studio.
Too many modern women refuse to take any responsibility and accountability for their emotional actions.
I completely agree with you and that was not an apology that was in. It wasn’t my fault type of thing that’s all that was.
And she’s probably afraid it’ll hurt the box office. But all she did was expose herself as a toxic person I won’t be supporting
You people are ridiculous. She doesn't need to apologize. What she said was harmless. So let it go.
What do you mean "You people"? 🤣🤣
She was not protecting the role, she took it personally. Her rant was all about HER!
halle bailey 2.0
Exactly! Nothing about her hissy fit had to do with the role. The Broadway show is the OG, so freaking out about being made to look like the OG isn't protecting the role.
“My manager told me to apologize, but I am not actually sorry.”
☝🏻
Knowing that interview where she said that Elphaba is like her now, I believe that she was forced to apologize after her tantrum, if Cynthia would get away with hers, she weren't apologize with nobody.
sorry till next time!
Did she apologize tho?
@@Xemnes135869 That's not an apology it's a side step into a deflection. Where was the apology to the fan that got lambaste by her on social media ?
She doesn't need to "protect" Elphaba from the fans. The fans need to protect Elphaba from actors.
I just watched a video on Elphaba... That's some serious mental illness going on there. And gross. 🤮
Especially when the character has been portrayed by other actors and done better. There is nothing she brings to the character that someone who came before her didn't do and did it better than her !
@ I hoped she knew that she doesn’t have to “recreate” the character
I have never seen Wicked. Now, if I have the opportunity, I will go see the play in a theater. I will not waste my time watching this simulacrum with this actress’s self insert.
@@sorbabaric1 I think, hope, the movie will be good...if not great. Fingers crossed.
The idol worship of the interviewer is a big part of the problem with these narcissists.
Yeah that was just gross.
yeah, what a bunch of idiots
Probably made to act that way. It was scripted, as always the case in these "interviews". PR was desperately trying to downplay the issue but still keep the "modernAudience" satisfied.
Oh my God, I noticed that too the entire time and then she gives authentic disingenuous ““ apology which really isn’t an apology.
@@Leamichellefan2244 It was her justification. The interviewer praised her for it and she replied with her justification. This is not regret. This is not an apology. The fact that they are trying to twist it into something it clearly isn't should be put "On Blast" as much as she is.
The level of self-absorption is stunning! She wasn’t trying to protect her character. She made this all about herself, not the fans who love and know the characters better than she ever will.
"It is not my fault I was just protecting the character." Except that is not at all what she said in her unhinged statement.
She's either insane... she identifies with a fictional evil witch with green skin... or she doesn't understand she was protecting herself... it "Demeaned" HER, not the evil witch of west. Actresses in Modern Hollywood are downright creepy at times. It makes me wonder what they really do on the nights of the full moon!
Haha yes, protecting the character from being depicted in the exact same way as the original poster?! All me, me, me
"It degrades ME"
"I am a real-life human being"
"to edit MY eyes and hide MY face is to erase ME"
She saw too much of herself in the character and forgot that it's not her being seen up there. All because of a fan edit that would change nothing of the official promotional materials.
In her statement, she actively removed herself from the character and it made it about her, instead of the character and the work. While i want to see wicked, i wont pay for it, will wait til it comes on streaming, have for other movies before
@@zoe9190 ditto!
The fan edit poster wasn't AI and the original isn't a 'cartoon animation'. What the heck is wrong with that interviewer??
More than we will ever know.
It’s not an interviewer, it’s a PR prop.
The studio knows it was a photoshop image made by a fan, because the fan included all their work in the video!! They must have intentionally claimed it was an "AI", since an AI doesn't have any feelings. Erivo was so cruel to that poor person who was just trying to improve on the dumb looking movie poster. The way she says her non-apology about "protecting little Elphaba" was just so insincere because we know Erivo was ranting about herself being "erased"!
The fact that she tripped so hard over a FAN MADE POSTER is just so ridiculous.
She thought she could get some victim cred. It's pure cynicism.
Yeah the only people who WHERE going to see the movie 😂 Not anymore
Especially one made out of love and care for the material
Never mind the fact that this wasn’t an apology this was just a justification for oh look at me. I can say whatever I want and then like somebody else said I don’t know if you seen that interview with that other lady who basically just kissed her weird like this guy is doing better. It’s sickening.
What bothers me more than the outburst is she put that fan account on blast and before it got more wider known and criticized there were people who rushed to attack the person who owns that account and call them racist.
"I probably should have called my friends, but it's fine." Oh really, Cynthia? I think it's the fans who call the shots on whether it's fine, not you. Sounds like another Rachel Zeigler with her insults, dismissive comments, doubling down and non-apologies. She also appears to have an echo chamber around her that feed into her sense of self-importance. Let's see how that plays out for her.
Yeah, I loved how she slipped that in, "but it's fine". No, it's not "fine" for the lead actress to terrorize some poor random Wicked fan online, just because they tried to improve on your ugly poster. Erivo has that prima donna diva mentality, that she can do no wrong. I suppose we'll find out soon.
In the old days, Actors had PR agents to suggest what they should and shouldn't say in public to protect their image. But now, thanks to social media, we can all see what horrible excuses for human beings they truly are.
Another reason why Hollywood is burning.
Obligatory "'ELLO YOU!"
when i was growing up people had mid to high opinion of most stars now my same family couldn't care less if HW dropped off the plate in next tectonic sparing match the planet will have
@Larry
Most of the new actresses before 2015 undergoes some sort of seminar on how to carry themselves in public.
But youre right, giving them access to social media to interact with the public is a huge mistake.
You arent wrong , mr Bundy. You are not wrong.
Fancy seeing you here Guru Larry. You are correct prior to Social Media people kept their mouths shut and had PR agents handle the stuff now they get triggered so easily that they shit their stuff all over the internet for everybody to see.
4:31 the poster wasn’t AI. I hate that they keep spinning this that way
Calling it an AI poster erases artists; I find that deeply offensive as an artist
There is an AI poster 'movie' where the 2 witches get into a catfight.
Its something completely different from the fan poster.
The thing with the AI, that I love, is it proves exactly the way I feel about Hollywood actors and actresses, their immaterial. What they could do is take the original film of the wicked witch from The Wizard of Oz movie and use software to make her look younger but Margaret Hamilton would be the one playing her character rather than this stupid tw8t. Or anyone else for that matter and you know what's great about that it does away with all actors and actresses they have to get out there and do real job. When I lived in California every time we go out to eat any of the waitresses or waiters that we met who would say I'm your server so and so here's the menu I'll be back to take your order but every single time they did that either giving us the menus or taking them away they would always feel the need to say this isn't my real job I'm actually an actor or an actress. So I said can you act like a waitress then or a waiter? My parents are always give me a check under the table but when we left to go home or to go wherever if depending on what day it was I'd say I get sick and tired of hearing him say that why don't they just say what they are if they're a waiter or waitress then be a waiter or waitress you don't need to say but I'm really an actor or actress why we don't even look like this type who would be a Hollywood producer. Yeah it's time for them to use the AI and give the finger to all these swelled head Nut Cases out there.
Even if she genuinely apologises for this, I'd wager it's too late. People are beyond tired of this behaviour.
she'd has the mindset of being easily offended has clout ... cause of her being bl@ck. justifying her biting the hamds that feeds her (in this case, indirectly fans).
probably not someone people like to hang out with.
She will not genuinely apologize. She should be humbled, and I hope she is humbled.
These actors, once they think they have success, their egos become incredibly large, and obnoxious.
No the woke will still continue to run everything
Absolutely.
Yeah, not going to watch this film.
Be thankful & humble...you know how many extremely talented thankful actresses would take that role and make the studio proud... unreal
Narcissists don't know "regret", they only realise "Consequences? I hate consequences!!!".
So does Rachel Zegler.
@@theequalizer9154Yep, she’s a Rachel Zegler. Have we seen any male versions? I can only think of women doing this (and a few gay men)
@@Catherine.Dorian. John Leguizamo for sure.
@@Catherine.Dorian. Patrick Stewart is another one.
No, they only understand “optics”.
I have seen Wicked three times on tour and one time in NYC. I am confused as to why she wanted to be shown with green lipstick and not red?
Was the green lip color her choice? It may have been decided by the higher ups. (I'm not defending anything else she said.)
@@TLCossaboon There is a problem with the use of green lipstick as it just has no reason to exist. The red lipstick showed her trying to modify herself to fit in a world where she can't.
@@marknovak6498 I agree.
It's the patriarchy.
I *highly* doubt she made that choice. Actors get some say, but the artists behind the show & the higher ups make most of the choices. IMO, I don't think a decent red would've looked good w the green they used for her. I saw a whole video w the makeup artist talking about the looong process of finding the perfect green for her skin & lighting on set. They added a neon yellow makeup (only found in Canada) to the green. I'm not sure what shade of red would've worked best w that green; maybe an orangey red, which would've just looked very blah imo but I'm biased against orangey reds.
It’s already too late. She buzzkilled the hype, and there’s nothing they can do to fully make amend with the fanbase before release. The awkwardness has settled in.
One asshole killed an entire party.
Nah , everything about this is junk .
Buzz-killed the hype on a movie 12+ years in the making!
This. I was actually looking forward to watching this movie cause I absolutely loved the musical. I just can’t deal with these celebrities and their victim mentality.
Same thing happened with G4. 🤷🏾♂️
the movie will be fine, arianas crazy fans will make it the highest grossing movie of the year , no money from me tho
Interviewer said he loved her response and really didn't acknowledge the backlash, leaving her to give a tepid response.
I'm one of those who want to see this movie fail. I'm so damn tired of actors, studios, and directors attacking fans. No more. They must learn that they need fans. WE DO NOT NEED THEM.
Me too *no pun intended* ;)
Studios need to learn their lesson from hiring 'actresses' like this.
The more they do it, the quicker they will cease to be; and rightly so.
Cynthia Erivo has a lot of pride, especially for being a value-brand actress no one's ever heard of before this debacle.
And hopefully, will never be heard from again.
She is well known on Broadway and as a stage actor but this is supposed to be her breakout role on screen. Seeing how it's going i don't think we will be seeing her star in anymore big films for awhile.
I definitely wouldn’t say “no one’s ever heard of” as she is a pretty big actress on the broadway scene but yea-not a good look
What a way to destroy her career 😂
@Karu_the_Kiwi I'm French, I have never heard from her. She might be known in the US but not abroad so that's a great way to kill a career.
Big yikes.
“I really apologize to the fans of wicked. I’m only human and I let my ego get the better of me. I really hope everyone shows up to see the movie because it is truly great.”
Very hard to say this, I know
"...a human moment of wanting to protect little Elphaba..."
Oh, no no no. The fan poster erased YOU. It degraded YOU. Not once in your screed did you ever mention anything about the character.
Yes. How was she defending the CHARACTER in any way? She wasn't, she got butthurt because the edit somehow "erased" her because it hid her eyes, while she was just having empty stare in that image. I could not pick any emotions or thoughts from her face unlike from the musical poster. It's a generic blank stare.
Exactly. She talked about being an actress and looking down the barrel of a camera. It was all about the actress, not the character she's now trying to use as cover for her outburst.
@@tubetorpedothe captain marvel look
Spot on!
"Looking down the barrel of a camera"....it says CANON on the side, not CANNON....they need to rename this movie Thick-ed....
My guess is she has no idea that it was a homage to a pre-existing poster and just went into full blown "i'm a black victim" mode.
And now there's a MSM red-carpet-gremlin "yasqween"ing her with toxic-positivity whilst she tries to backtrack on the obvious meltdown.
she was aware of the original poster, she referenced it in her post. if she hadn't, her reaction would've been a tad bit more "understandable" but yeah, no, she knew very well that someone simply recreated the original poster 😑
Weird of you to make it a racial thing.
@@mallninja9805 If you don't understand at this point there's no helping you.
"I'm not sorry. I'm just sorry you feel that way."
"It degrades us." Who is "us"? Does she have multiple personalities?😂
Did anyone else notice the interviewer lying about the fan edit?
She never apologized. And her subsequent interview with that other woman simping desperately for her, she continues to say its all about her. Keep her cancelled.
Oh my God yes, she never apologized. This was a BS justification and yes, that other interview where she just went on and on and on and on about how it’s all about her oh my God and the sad part is I don’t think she’s done yet. I don’t think we’ve heard the last of her or her little army of sycophants.
Her answer aside, I found the kissing up of reporter asking the question absolutely ridiculous. He basically set the tone for her answer, precluding the fact that she needs to apologize at all and so she gladly obliged and then the conversation went on to the favourite celebrity topic: themselves and their outfits, thus making the backlash look as a nonsense. How shallow and pathetic.
It doesn't sound much like regret to me.
I see no apology, no accountability.
The ET reporter in the footage also went full fan hatred.
Exactly she’s not sorry he’s not sorry he spent the whole time kissing her rear and if you want to see any more evidence of that nonsense look at the interview she did with Renee Rapp now that’s just vomit.
The ET reporter went also went full idiot mode. 'It was just a poster, you are a human being' - and that poster advertised a play in which Elphaba was played by whom, a penguin instead of a human being? Both pictures feature an entirely fictitious character, the changes were done to that character, not to the actress.
"Trying to protect little Elphaba..." She wasn't trying to protect anything but her outsized ego.
Feels like she got read the riot act by the studio and got told to fix this shit.
"Trying to protect little elphaba..."
Then why did she talk about how _she_ as the actor was being degraded, and how people were asking or saying to _her_ unsavory things. Not elphaba, but her
It's like when Pedro Pascal wanted to take off the Mandalorian helmet so he could show his face. So HE could be seen.
Also she played off her actions as just "human"... um.... no.
Disgusting. Its not her caracter to protect. She didnt create this caracter - the writer of The wizard of Oz did.
@@catelynh1020tbh she has every right to get mad at being asked unsavoury things.
But she put it in the same sentence as the fan made poster 😭😭😭 like wtf.
'Wicked: The life and times of the Wicked Witch of the West' was written by Gregory Maguire and first came out in 1995. Follow up novel is 'Son of a Witch' about Elphaba's child. Did one on the cowardly lion and other Oz characters.
I suggest people read the original novels. They are quite good.
She responded to it like it was a troll, but she just killed legitimate fan excitement.
I guess it was perfect for her though because she is playing a witch. 😂
I think I was just as annoyed with that ET reporter who couldn't suck up more to Cynthia with his shill comments if he tried!
In the old days, the ET reporter would have asked: "So you made some spirited remarks about that fan-edited Wicked poster recently. Do you have anything you want to say to the fans about this controversy?" Not exactly a Mike Wallace gotcha question, but it would have given her an opportunity to explain without making it sound like the reporter was her publicist.
She's typical. Very tiresome and sickening perpetual victim class.
Yep, and everyone is beyond fatigued with their antics
I've never heard of her until hearing about this 💀
FYI she's not liked in the Black American community due to very same thing. So cram that victim class up you're tea cake az.
I'm telling the boss that now when I'm either late for work or just don't want to go,... 'Sorry, I had a Human moment'.
this is the reason you don't hire adults whom have never lived as an adult in the real world.
They are adults who live in a world of make believe from the time they get up until they go to bed every day.
She is still a spoiled rich brat. Which is concerning. There are movies about spoiled kids and teenagers learning to become humble and responsible people who take accountability for their actions and behavior at the end of the film. But I guess it's just movies. Because IRL, they never learn.
She regrets nothing! Her response was a well thought out perpetual-victim cry for more undeserved entitlement. She is so full of herself!
Two fans were slapped by her, and one of them, the one who did the repost, even received threats. And this poor excuse of a human didn't even bother to send some form of apology to the reposter or even a message to her followers not to threaten or harrass the reposter whom she's thrown under the bus by copy-pasting their IG name. How uncultured!
Not to mention, she doesn't even know where they're from, what's their race, or gender, sexuality etc. But of course, in her mind the reposter is a straight, white, American cis male 😂😂😂
3:57 Funny how this tailored outfit makes her look like a Sith
Especially with no eyebrows...she looks very...Palpatine-like
@ I don’t know how I missed that but you are absolutely right
Beauty is Only Skin Deep...
But ugly is to the Bone.
Love it. So Joan Rivers
@@heidijanuary3286poor Joan Rivers got ended after saying Michelle Obama is a trans
Right down to the marrow with this one 😂
@crazyralph6386 I actually got that expression from a Story my Grandma told me about my Deceased Granddad speaking to his son. The to the bone was the son's reply to the Dad.
@@heidijanuary3286 nothing to do with Rivers. Its an old saying , I've heard that from the old people in the 80s 😂
This is the worst thing she's had to deal with? That's some real privilege.
It's too late. She's already shown her true colors (so to speak).
It’s funny how celebrities find new ways to avoid apologizing for bad behavior.
"wanting to protect little Elphaba"
Witch please, ELPHABA AIN'T REAL!!!
elphaba was also depicted as the original poster for DECADES
Which please even if Elphaba was real she wouldn’t need her help. 😂
Elphaba is an abusive murderer in the books so yeah I’m kind of tired of this oh she’s so sweet. No she was a horrible person that was kind of the point.
Did we really need a movie at all about the witches?
@@sethputnamsghost No
@ninjagirl226 The musical turned her into a sympathetic heroine. Instead of "Wizard of Oz gone dark," it became, "Wicked Witch was misunderstood". Still, I kinda liked how the musical showed the limits of activism, especially when you push other people away.
To quote Sir Ian McKellen's Magneto: "Once again, you think this is all about you."
A quote that applies to so many people making & commenting on youtube videos...
There's a movie I have no interest in.
Join the club.
Wicked is the OG “make the villain a misunderstood victim” deconstruction of classic stories of good and evil. It’s the first toe in the door.
Me neither. No interest in seeing the film. The stage musical did absolutely nothing for me. I spend most of the time looking at the theatre decor.
I've seen the musical twice. I have no desire to see the movie. The live action isn't that impressive.
Lost all interest after her remarks
Again they think they are so important, but let us not forget it’s the fans that have some control of whether or not the movie fails
That was a non-apology and that interviewer was lame too. "That was a cartoon animation"? He has no idea what he is talking about and his tone when he says that, as if to belittle the iconic poster. Also, what would talking to her friends is going to do? She's just going to get the same feedback that this guy gave her. "Yeah! You should clap back! That was a cartoon animation".
That is why everybody outside of woke vacumn can't stand them.
He was also calling it an AI image!
The manner in which the interviewer asked her the question, and gave her overwhelming positive support for what she did, is indicative of the echo-chamber of people around her that made her respond that way in the first place.
"You're a bad-ass clap-back queen!"
"It was just speaking out, and I loved it!"
"Your point made so much sense!"
Imagine hearing that from literally every person in your sphere?
That's why she did it, without fearing the repercussions.
I'm sure the movie studio and her agents were on the phone within minutes, to guide how she'd recover.
Her job is to erase herself and leave only the character. It's called acting, something she has very little experience.
Exactly and every other lady on the Broadway stage West End wherever black white or otherwise knows that has known that this woman doesn’t.
The movie’s job is to erase the Wizard of Oz and replace it with “witches are good and ‘good’ characters are bad.” Just like Disney Star Wars’ job was to make Luke a loser and promote “gray” morality.
@@SuperEndiku no please don’t hate me, but I still personally love the play because even with the play on Broadway, you can still tell who’s good and who’s bad but the movie is definitely trying to make the wicked witch to the bus the victim, especially with the casting choice yes I went there. No, I don’t care.
@@SuperEndikuit was earlier in the period of cultural demoralization though when they actually wrote the story well and the subversion was more intelligent.
If memory serves the Wicked play was one of the vanguards of the “humanize the villain” trend, thus it was much more palatable and novel than the crap that came after it.
The studio and her manager are behind this statement.
She has already shown her true “perpetual victim” colours and no doubt 100% believes a fan poster tribute was an attempt to erase her.
This movie deserves to flop because of her actions. I can't stand an entitled narcissist.
I couldn’t agree more.
you people are all so butthurt and don't even see how everyone is over reacting. Yoou should know that many people have put their time and effort in this movie, to boycot the movie based on one reaction of one person is disrespcting everyone else that has worked on it and put their love in it.
@misterae6430 😂😂 when the lead actress scolds a fan for her art...yeah she deserves to be boycotted. Someone like that doesn't deserve to have her movie seen.
@@misterae6430 a film is made of hundreds of people all working together to tell one story. When all those people work together for the best outcome, the best outcome occurs. But if the people who take the spotlight and attention end up doing stupid things hurting those people, The teamwork is compromised. The CGI artists, audio, mixers, lighting, and other behind-the-scenes departments did not hurt their careers by Cynthia’s comment, but they were already paid. An animator who does good work on bad animated films is just a regular person doing a job. Just because people worked hard and to produce this movie does not mean they are entitled to success.
Not just her actions. What about the homewrecker too? She’s the worst of them both, in my opinion. They’re both full of themselves.
A fan made poster based around the original poster and she becomes a victim. People like her need to shut up and do what they are paid for.
She’s sorry about the reaction, not what she said
Im glad someone said something.
being abused by these rich narcissists is getting pretty tiresome.
It's amazing how many times she confused the word narcissist for "Pasionate".
"But it's fine" LMFAOOOOOO oh man when this fails I can't wait to see all the articles blasting fans and what not lol
No intention of seeing the movie now. Told the wife she can watch it with friends. Refuse to spend my money on these people that are stuck up narcissist.
Agreed. Even if this were a movie I was really excited about watching on the big screen, I would refuse to give that literal witch a single dime. Just knowing how self-centered, narcissistic and entitled Erivo is in real life would ruin the film for me. Actors should be smart enough to keep their damn mouths shut unless the cameras are rolling.
Wow - she missed "the plot" ... wasnt the fan having a "human moment" by creating a piece of art to celebrate the film?
Wait...did you hear what the interviewer said, "The AI Poster" - the poster wasn't AI, the AI Fightscene was something completely unrelated. So he got the facts wrong and wrongly assumed from there. Nice.
He is a "journalist" after all.
Her outburst held a key word continuously: "My". It had nothing to do with protecting the character, and if THIS is the most egregious thing she has ever saw, she lives in a bubble.
Also with interviewers stroking her ego like that it's no wonder she lives in her head/emotions.
Well, I know of 8 people in my circle who like Wicked who WON'T be seeing the movie.
I'm surprised that studios allow this. With so much money involved, one would think actors would have to sign contracts agreeing to keep their opinions OFF social media until well after a movie is released. Something along the lines of, if you harm the movie, it comes out of your check.
That wasn't a Q and A. That was ET giving her the answer they wanted to their own question, and her simply saying "Yes, that's right."
LOL, true, that was a Kamala Harris softball-type "interview".
How do you define a human moment?
Better question: How do you define an apology?
Usually there's an 'I'm sorry' in there somewhere and I didn't hear anything like that.
Did she even say the words, “I’m sorry”?
No!
She comes off as sooooo full of herself. I can’t see the movie without seeing her as the character
Translation: The studio told me they'd sue the shit out of me for tanking our shitty movie single handedly and now I'm desperate to avoid that.
One has to wonder how this and similar 'star' driven controversies are going to work their way into future contracts.
Regrets how badly the fans took it. That's all.
Regrets people refusing to be bullied by her.
I saw the her staement and she does NOT regret attacking fans. The only thing she talked about was her and her emotional status, because that is all that's important to her.
"It''s, fine...I should have called my friends." If she had them to call, she would have in the first place.
Human moment...most humans don't act like that after a certain age.
"I should have called my friends" is already a tad of an overreaction when you are 37 and pretending to be offended by a tasteful and sensible fan edit of a movie poster.
This was not an apology, this was "oh god i can't beleive you're bringing this up, i dont wanna talk about it so let me just brush it off real quick."
There is a difference between being told to apologize and wanting to apologize.
Exactly.
Ego the size of a freaking planet...
And Jesus H Christ, that camp Entertainment Tonight sycophant was absolutely sickening.
The AI aspect is a red herring. Her original rant referred to an AI-generated joke video of the 2 witches fighting. But this poster was NOT AI-generated. It was created by a fan, "a real live human being" whom Erivo callously dragged into the social media arena for a public thrashing. This could have resulted in the fan being swarmed and doxxed by Erivo's supporters, and her life made miserable. Just a few years ago, that would have been the case, but barely-known actors hurling accusations don't have the same clout they once did. Erivo is trying to minimize her cruelty by pretending that she was just attacking some robot, not a human being.
I would like to see someone in Hollywood to actually get her to apologize to the individual that did the fan edit.
I can't be the only bloke out here hoping this movie bombs at the box office.
But what about Ariana Grande? It's her movie too. Does she need to be punished as well?
@SeasideDetective2 alot of people didn't want to see the movie BECAUSE Ariana is in it. Lol Cynthia was the reason I was going to see it along for my sister who's a big fan of the wizard of oz stuff. Now I'm not interested, but I'll still watch It if my sister ends up wanting to see it still tho.
@@qualityconcepts5762 I'm aware that Ariana has made some faux pas in the past. But did people really remember those?
@SeasideDetective2 yes they do. Not everyone has to like a certain celebrity and Noone most certainly has to kiss ass to one. Ariana has done alot of stupid things. Said alot of stupid things and will continue to do so. We're not idol worshipping anymore. It's toxic.
@@SeasideDetective2 What about Ariana? I didn't mention anyone by name, but rather, I said I hope the "movie" bombs at the box office. So, wouldn't that include Grande? And Goldblum, Yeoh, and those arseholes Dinklage and Slater? Quit deflecting and trying to split hairs.
Zero regrets, narcissists are incapable of regret.
She didn't apologize, she just expressed regret for making her hissy fit public.
I can't wait to NOT see this movie
I'm already not seeing it 😁👍
These people live in bubbles. It must be very lonely for they lash out at the world they owe their success to and are desperate to connect with.
She didn’t have a human moment she had a tantrum. She tried to garner oppression points, and it backfired. Will it affect the movie? I don’t believe so. Just like any other fanbase, most of the fans will still give the support of a first time movie adaptation of their franchise.
"I am a human... hissss.... i had a human moment... hisssss.... fellow humans"
Well I won't. Skipping this movie
Thank the good Lord, the majority of people see this for what it is, but then you’ve got her army telling all of us that we were never really apologize for.
I think many fans will skip it. Same as with Joker 2 it completely bombed at the box office😆
@@sphinxkat I agree the majority have been saying no and I’m one of the ones that say no but again like I said you’ve got her army saying if you don’t go see it because of her then you were never really a fan of wicked.
Actors should just act, attacking fans just loses fans.
Septum rings are a strong positive indicator for mental illness.
So is WILLINGLY shaving off your eyebrows.
Definitely a sign to keep your distance.
They're great for leading cattle around, though!
I mean this funny cause I have mental health and recently got a septum piercing, but you don't see me attacking fans for doing a fan made art for poster on film based on Broadway musical.
So not really a sign that they have mental health issues, it's just how some people are when their feelings get hurt and no one cares and can't just let it go.
Why do people even specify them as septum rings? Nose rings in general are a giant red flag for women and anything else that aren't cows.
They had such a big chance to use that poster for marketing. Fkin hell the narrative writes itself.
Human moment I call bullshit arrogance is more like it
"I'm sorry I'm just human" isn't a real apology in the first place.
I would call it that nobody from the staff took seriously her whim and tantrum.
An old baseball expression is "Million dollar arm with a ten cent head." Somehow this seems to fit in here as well.
Her agent probably gave her a call...
Agent only? The movie director and maybe 1 person from the production company who paid for the movie. If one dollar is missing from the budget projection they expect to make, she'll be blamed for it.
that red carpet reporter for entertainment tonight is a worm
It’s NOT a real person. It’s a made up character in a made up story.
and she has been depicted with the hat and the smirk for decades with no issue
This was a niche broadway show now made in an even more niche musical movie and the BEST idea of a reaction to a FAN edited poster was to attack that person and cry racism? THIS, Hollywood, THIS is why no one wants to consume your product in any significant numbers. Skip this movie.
Excuse me? Have you been living under the rock in the past 2 decades? Wicked was definitely NOT a “niche” broadway show. In fact quite the opposite it was and still is one of the most popular and bestselling broadway musical of all time. I haven never seen a broadway show but even I know about this. It’s one thing to bash the actress’s behavior but saying the musical was niche just shows how ignorant you are.
Most definite skip.
Musicals have never been more than a niche thing. The musical theater business, like the overall live theatrical and dance business, is set in its ways and doesn’t change easily. In the U.S. the overall industry focus is on 41 addresses in a relatively small area of Manhattan. Being in a Broadway theater is considered to be the pinnacle of success. As fabulous as it can be, there’s an absolute limit on the number of people who can attend.
The price barrier is significant too. The average person cannot afford a ticket to a Broadway show even if transportation and lodging costs are ignored. Broadway has priced itself into a corner. Only the elite can attend.
My opinion is that to compete with forms of entertainment that are cheaper and less passive, live theatre has to expand its reach and lower its costs. It’s a complicated challenge but involves the disruption of the current “machine” and a rethinking of how the business can best serve both audience and artists.
The business needs to innovate and find a better way of using all the talent in the pool. Only about 2% of professional performers are able to make a living in the industry. Expanding opportunities (as is happening in the film/tv industries) is the key to expanding the audience field of view beyond Broadway and London.
In the 2023-2024 season, Broadway shows sold approximately $1.54 billion worth of tickets and had an attendance of about 12.3 million. This was similar to the 2022-2023 season, which also saw about $1.58 billion in ticket sales and 12.2 million attendees.
The average price of a ticket for a Broadway musical in 2023-2024 was around $128.50, which was a 4.6% decrease from the previous season.
In 2023, movie theaters in the United States and Canada sold about 830 million tickets, which is an increase from the previous year's total of just over 700 million. The average ticket price in 2023 was $10.78.
@@bochenggu1439 HAHAHA...you've never seen a Broadway show....yep, my point exactly? Sure, you've heard of it, so what? You never saw it anymore than you've heard of Cats but never seen it? Broadway shows are, by definition, niche. Understand now ahole keyboard warrior?
@@bochenggu1439 Hahaha...so, you've never seen a Broadway play but Wicked isn't niche because you've HEARD of it? Yeah, that's exactly my point? I've actually HEARD of Cats and saw it when it came to Denver and I would say that going to see a play is DEFINITELY rich person, niche. A niche musical movie based on a niche broadway play AND the star is sneering down her nose at the fans...yep, skip.
I remember, years ago, watching an interview with Elizabeth Taylor - undoubtedly one of the biggest movie stars of her time.
She said that if you are running late for a train, but a fan asked for an autograph, you better miss your train, because it is the fans who put you where you are - without them, you are nothing!
Pity some modern stars don't seem to realise this, smh.
narcissists be narcissising. and hollywood is full of narcissists
Here is a better idea for a response: "I am terribly sorry for my response. I clearly overreacted, I can see that now and that the poster edit is a work of love and passion. I apologize for my reaction and hope that the movie will be loved by many people."
Interesting is that the reporter apperently thought her overreaction was stunning and brave. I hate this whole clown show!
I didn't even know this existed before the drama, and the more I pay attention the more I hear wicked is steeped in despicable practices and behaviour. So no I won't see it.
Years ago, there was a copy in the doctor's office. I got about 20 pages in and put it back down.
I recently watched a critics review of the book and movie. I'm tired of villians being made out to really be sweet but misunderstood nasty deviants.☹️
The Anti-Streisand effect? As in, if you hadn't heard about this you might have accidentally subjected yourself to the full movie.
Her response was a real turnoff. Not sure I wanted to go to the theater to see the movie in the first place, but I’ll wait for it to stream.
Wicked PART 1??
Wait, they're making this into a multi-part movie?! Oh hell no.
"I'm sorry I didn't get backup, I'm not sorry for what I did"
"I'm sorry my words hurt you, not my fault, it's all on you."
Cynthia: "I probably should have called my friends, but it's fine."
Narrator: It was not fine.
She took the focus off the movie and the rest of the actors and their performances and made it ALL ABOUT HER. How WICKED is that?!