Cynthia Erivo upsets English northerners with anti Sunderland comments

Northumbria's Police Commissioner not happy

[QUOTE] I'm like 'where the f**k am I?

I ask myself the same question whenever I visit west London.

Has she considered visiting Sudan?

Who? Is this MORE Brit shit?

Cool nose ring

r4 The bad witch in the new Wicked movie. And this is the very definition of a tempest in a teapot.

So… what is Sunderland like?

It's... rough.

Soonderland

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It's funny because in the Wicked comments, it was noted that she made the Broadway community angry with her comments on The Great Comet (which she was not even involved with), made the American Black community angry. Someone sagely said that even with good PR, she would stick her hoof in her mouth again. And it only took a couple of days.

[quote] Number 2: She is still allowed to have an opinion on what cities she likes and doesn't like without having the media making out this to be some offensive or controversial thing FFS.

So you're saying she has a right to give voice to her opinion... but somehow other people don't have the equal right to criticize that opinion?

I'm not sure when she made the comments, but they've been shared after she was appointed as the deputy president of acting school RADA.

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Marc Platt doesn't have much luck with the leading ladies from his upcoming movies knowing when to keep their big mouths shut. Erivo will do it again because despite her education, she's surprisingly inarticulate, which leads to so many misunderstandings. She also showed in the Great Comet debate that she was very thin skinned.

British celebrities are in such a strange bind.

On the one hand, half the UK is even more obsessed with promulgating cancel culture than even people in the USA are.

On the other, the rest of the country loves "cheekiness" and complains bitterly if celebrities are boring.

You're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't.

Sunderland native Melanie Hill, a well known British actress, is not amused. (She's also one of Sean Bean's many ex wives)

[quote]British celebrities are in such a strange bind. On the one hand, half the UK is even more obsessed with promulgating cancel culture than even people in the USA are. On the other, the rest of the country loves "cheekiness" and complains bitterly if celebrities are boring. You're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't.

People are criticising Erivo for being a snob. Manchester is like London in the way Boston is like New York. And the stereotype of Liverpool is patronising.

She's just a London centric southerner.

She can say anything she wants. It's a free kingdom.