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Cynthia Erivo calls out fans who made their own Wicked poster (poptalk.scrubbles.tech)
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Fans customized the Wicked movie poster to more closely match the original Broadway poster.

Original Broadway Poster:

Movie poster:

Some fans, disappointed by the poster, altered it to be closer to the original, moving Grande’s hand and lowering the brim of Erivo’s hat to cover her eyes. The edits prompted Erivo to respond. “This is the wildest, most offensive thing I have seen

“None of this is funny. None of it is cute. It degrades me. It degrades us,” Erivo continued. “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.”

So, this seems like a completely reasonable reaction to fans making fan content.

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[-] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org -1 points 3 days ago

Getting them snow white vibes... These regime whores forgot that consumer demand pays their bills, not sucking some corpo's dick due to "misused art" or is she really self involved?

[-] Anderenortsfalsch@discuss.tchncs.de -2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

https://www.sbs.com.au/voices/article/headless-women-project-highlights-gross-sexism-in-movie-posters/2bhgrghmc

Compare movie posters of women whose eyes or even whole heads you can't see or that are reduced to legs vs. movie posters of male actors to whom this is rarely done and it is clear what is happening.
Top this with the problems people of color face and that the new poster takes away her facial look, the look of a person of color and replaces everything that reminds of her with a bland face that could be anyone and I understand her anger.

She could have explained the issue instead of lashing out, because so many of her fans (and people in ths thread) don't understand the problem and education is necessary and more helpful for everyone.

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