Cynthia Erivo Slams Fans for Altering Her Image in ‘Wicked’ Poster & Memes

Cynthia Erivo has had sufficient of the fan edits surrounding the upcoming “Wicked” film … together with one viral picture of the reworked film poster.

The actress, who performs Elphaba within the extremely anticipated “Wicked” movie, issued an announcement on Instagram Wednesday after followers took it upon themselves to edit the film’s poster to look extra just like the one used for the Broadway musical.

Test it out … the brand new picture is edited to solid a shadow over Cynthia’s eyes from the Wicked Witch’s wide-brimmed hat … very like it does within the authentic illustration.

Whereas followers appeared happy with their edit, Cynthia made it clear she was not impressed … calling the unauthorized poster “the wildest, most offensive thing.”

She referred to as out the picture on the heels of some different viral memes, together with an AI rendering of Cynthia combating together with her costar Ariana Grande, and the “is your p***y green” query circulating the web.

She continued … “None of this is funny. None of it is cute. It degrades me. It degrades us.”

As for these critics who wished the film poster to look extra like Broadway’s illustrated rendering … Cynthia defends she’s “a real life human being,” who made a selection together with her pose for the teaser.

She added … “Our poster is an homage not an imitation, to edit my face and hide my eyes is to erase me. And that is just deeply hurtful.”

Cynthia went on to share the movie’s poster once more to her Instagram Tales … with the intention to “cleanse your palette.”