Cynthia Erivo ‚— hoo boy
Me, me, I, myself, me, me, me. Is she trying to out-Porter Billy Porter?
[quote]“Dare to be. Dare to adventure. There’s frivolity and joy in it. The way I dress is innately queer. I’m trying to be myself,” says Erivo, adding after a knowing pause that her style is meant to be “limitless.”
[quote]“I have a real sort of ownership of who I am and what I want. I have some control over how things happen for myself, which is a really powerful thing,” says Erivo, who has her own production company and is most excited to create projects for future stars. Then the actress puts it in pop-culture parlance, “But as the old adage goes, with great power comes great responsibility.”
[quote]Another responsibility Erivo relished? Being nosy. She tried to understand every job, from the assistant director calling “cut!” to the wind-machine operator. “That’s my commitment to myself to make sure that everyone feels seen and acknowledged,” she says. It was “a bit jarring at first” for “Wicked” director Jon M. Chu (“Crazy Rich Asians,” “In the Heights”). “It’s like, ‘We got this. Don’t worry. You just figure out your own thing,’” he says.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 114 | December 1, 2024 10:49 PM
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Can she PLEASE go somewhere- ANYWHERE
by Anonymous | reply 1 | November 23, 2024 8:16 PM
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I’m sure the key grip and the best boy cherished her attention.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | November 23, 2024 8:20 PM
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I wonder what it is that annoys you so much about her, OP - given there are numerous threads
by Anonymous | reply 4 | November 23, 2024 8:26 PM
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Based on the last paragraph of OP's post, she's clearly fashioning herself after Streisand who was so "inquisitive" about filmmaking during the production of FUNNYGIRL, veteran director William Wyler jokingly (I think) quipped to a crew person, "You'll have to forgive Barbra. This is her first time directing a movie."
by Anonymous | reply 5 | November 23, 2024 9:13 PM
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Finally someone I can work with and be seen by. Not like that horrible AnnE Hathaway and Blake Lively.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | November 23, 2024 10:24 PM
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Certainly her ego is undeservedly limitless.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | November 23, 2024 10:26 PM
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"I have a real sort of ownership of who I am and what I want. I have some control over how things happen for myself, which is a really powerful thing,"
Red wine vinaigrette on that word salad please
by Anonymous | reply 8 | November 23, 2024 10:28 PM
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[quote]I wonder what it is that annoys you so much about her, OP - given there are numerous threads
I am MAKING SPACE for her, r4, and GIVING HER HER FLOWERS.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | November 23, 2024 11:57 PM
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Cynthia Erivo maybe the one actress that Datalounge and LipstickAlley despises equally. 😂
by Anonymous | reply 10 | November 24, 2024 1:16 AM
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She and Ariana are getting (deservedly) dragged and meme-d into oblivion by the internet for this deranged press tour.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 11 | November 24, 2024 1:23 AM
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God I am so sick of looking at her face everywhere
by Anonymous | reply 12 | November 24, 2024 1:23 AM
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She sounds like someone desperately trying to be profound yet only sounding like your drunk embarrassing aunt that won’t go home.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | November 24, 2024 8:42 AM
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Wow r11 did you watch that whole video. Now that is what you call insidious. It starts off talking about the unhinged Wicked Press tour and then goes into railing against diversity and the demonization of the white man.
So that’s how it happens, because I was hooked and listening to it, and agreeing with it - then WHAM.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | November 24, 2024 9:30 AM
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Annoying as fuck, ugly as sin. When is she not whining about something?
by Anonymous | reply 16 | November 24, 2024 9:33 AM
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I think she's tremendous!
by Anonymous | reply 17 | November 24, 2024 9:34 AM
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It’s possible to be observant on film sets without being intrusive.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | November 24, 2024 9:36 AM
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I’m not railing against you at all R11, but if someone wants to understand the slow boil of how someone becomes a Trump supporter and the rise of MAGA, watch R11’s video. And then multiply it by 100s of videos people watch about things they are interested in that only serve to guide them down this path.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | November 24, 2024 9:45 AM
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^ it takes something we can all agree on that Cynthia is is insufferable and turns into a manifesto against diversity.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | November 24, 2024 9:47 AM
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No, you queens aren't racist at all..
by Anonymous | reply 21 | November 24, 2024 10:19 AM
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R21 they aren’t racist. She is insufferable. I’m black and find her insufferable. On one hand she is always talking about being proud to be an outsider yet on the other hand you still have a woman starving herself (ozempic probably) to fit into the Hollywood machine. She’s all nose ring and sinew.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | November 24, 2024 10:24 AM
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I don't think she is ugly, more striking. But her grooming is aggressive and not pleasant. She was pleasant!! on Seth Meyers recently. I think the issue people have is grandness. And relatively young.
The entertainment figure she minds me of is Miss Calypso e.g Dr. Prof. Maya Angelou. As a liberal I was trained to tolerate it in a person of colour, I mean maybe tolerate it a bit more than a white grandee for example.
But people of any race have a limit for pretension.
Gore Vidal was so pretentious and grand but he didn't get massacred for it as much as James Baldwin, for example.
It does feel racist for everyone to pile on about Erivo's pretension.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | November 24, 2024 10:46 AM
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There's no modulation allowed for Erivo. That's what's racist.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | November 24, 2024 10:50 AM
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And that's before we start getting into the misogyny around here. Lots of Mommy issues proliferated around here by the self-indulgent.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | November 24, 2024 10:51 AM
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Billy Porter has been mentioned for comparison purposes. Billy Porter is mostly very pleasant in interviews - which is the only way I know him besides his performances, and his PAP strolls in outrageous fashion. So he's super grand and histrionic but I mostly get a kid out of his shtick. When his performances are good I enjoy them. He had several very good scenes in Pose, in my opinion, and was overall good. When his performances fail - like the solo tour, I can kinda of laugh and say, oh well, he's one who shouldn't be too much in control and direct himself. There are plenty of entertainers like that.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | November 24, 2024 11:07 AM
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[quote]Can she PLEASE go somewhere- ANYWHERE
You first.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | November 24, 2024 11:09 AM
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If she had light skin and bleach blonde hair with that talent you Queens would be shooting loads on the back of the IMAX seat in front of you. It's crystal clear what your real problem with her is.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | November 24, 2024 11:16 AM
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I didn’t even know she was “queer”. I just think she’s incredibly annoying.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | November 24, 2024 11:38 AM
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Blocked posters galore on this thread.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | November 24, 2024 11:46 AM
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I knew nothing about her until she started appearing in TV ads everywhere and I find her whole “look at me, I am edgy “ antics kind of annoying..felt the same way about Lady GaGa when she was doing her schtick 2009-2011. However, I saw the WICKED film on Thursday night and thought that she was spectacular in the film. There are some performers who you just know would be exhausting to be around and she seems to be one of them….
by Anonymous | reply 32 | November 24, 2024 11:57 AM
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How was Bowan Yang, r32? Does Ethan Slater look as ugly in the movie as he does in photos?
by Anonymous | reply 33 | November 24, 2024 12:28 PM
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I don’t have much sympathy for people whining about being an outsider when they dress to repel. She clearly WANTS to alienate people. That’s her choice. But then don’t cry over feeling excluded.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | November 24, 2024 2:43 PM
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[quote] No, you queens aren't racist at all..
They're not racist.
Well, not ONLY racist. The fat nellie prisspot shopbottoms at DL are hangry about their lives, and bitterly hate any number of people - especially successful people. Gay men of any success level, fraus and of course, uppity black women.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | November 24, 2024 2:47 PM
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Her skin color and gender have nothing to do with it. To look at someone so obviously neurotic, needy and manipulative and think that anyone who doesn’t like her is a racist or misogynist reveals more about you than it does about the targets of your hate.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | November 24, 2024 2:52 PM
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Find her very intense too but I just read she was paid $1 million for her role to Ariana’s $15 million, doesn’t seem very fair. Plus, even worse, supporting players Michelle Yeoh and Jeff Goldblum got paid double her fee at $2 million a piece.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | November 24, 2024 2:54 PM
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[quote] To look at someone so obviously neurotic, needy and manipulative and think that anyone who doesn’t like her is a racist or misogynist reveals more about you than it does about the targets of your hate.
Sounds like freshman-level gaslighting to me.
In the category of "You make mommy drink! You make mommy hit you!"
by Anonymous | reply 38 | November 24, 2024 2:55 PM
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She and Ariana sound like they've been in therapy for ages with all the nonsense they spew. Things like: "I acknowledge that you feel that way and I am so happy to have you in my safe space".
Massively out of touch and weird.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | November 24, 2024 9:32 PM
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Cynthia Erivo is the reason we lost the election.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | November 24, 2024 11:16 PM
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Cynthia Erivo came to my house and kicked my dog.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | November 24, 2024 11:17 PM
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Is there anything in the world that doesn't make Cynthia feel unseen, unacknowledged, unpersoned,, unheard, unappreciated?
by Anonymous | reply 44 | November 24, 2024 11:19 PM
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I am not spending a damn dime to see that Green Bitch.
by Anonymous | reply 45 | November 24, 2024 11:20 PM
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Is Cynthia the new Julie?
by Anonymous | reply 46 | November 25, 2024 2:12 AM
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I know that some black American actresses are not happy with those comments she made a few weeks ago about their perceived lack of talent.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | November 25, 2024 2:42 AM
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[quote] Find her very intense too but I just read she was paid $1 million for her role to Ariana’s $15 million, doesn’t seem very fair. Plus, even worse, supporting players Michelle Yeoh and Jeff Goldblum got paid double her fee at $2 million a piece.
Fair is what you can command. Ariana has a huge fan base, Cynthia doesn't. Yeoh and Goldblum are established stars, so ditto. If Cynthia was Beyonce she would have gotten 25M.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | November 25, 2024 3:14 AM
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The pay disparity doesn't make sense. Erivo is co-lead. And she's not just some unknown they picked up off the street.
by Anonymous | reply 49 | November 25, 2024 3:22 AM
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You just don't need to say this shit out loud. It's excessive and it shows you don't have much control, social boundaries, or even social intelligence.
The press build-up for this thing has been exhausting.
It did NOT need this much press - Wicked is very well known and loved. She acts like she conceived the play and role - tons of actresses have played this.
Just be humble and say that you hope you did a good job. And there's no way she got only $1 million - she may have got a percentage. That's bullshit.
by Anonymous | reply 50 | November 25, 2024 3:23 AM
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She "identifies as queer"? There's no way those fingernails have ever been near a vagine.
by Anonymous | reply 51 | November 25, 2024 4:31 AM
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R49 Clearly, you know nothing about how the entertainment INDUSTRY works.
by Anonymous | reply 52 | November 25, 2024 5:38 AM
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R52 is correct and you can actually Google both salaries. Ariana Grande has 400 million followers and has sold millions and millions of records. Of course she was the highest paid in the cast. She's the draw apart from the musical itself.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | November 25, 2024 5:47 AM
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[quote] I know that some black American actresses are not happy with those comments she made a few weeks ago about their perceived lack of talent
She also mocked Black American culture a few years ago but takes any opportunity to play their cultural/historical icons in films and mini-series (Harriet, Aretha, .etc).
That's one reason why LipstickAlley loathes her.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | November 25, 2024 7:12 AM
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Who else can't stand to look at her with that disgusting bull ring hanging off her nose?
by Anonymous | reply 55 | November 25, 2024 7:34 AM
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If she only got paid 1 million, her agent probably can’t stand her either. They could have at least gotten another 500K for “Oscar Nominated.””
by Anonymous | reply 56 | November 25, 2024 7:54 AM
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Wicked ‘s budget was $150 million. They probably spent more on chicken wraps than they did for Cynthia.
by Anonymous | reply 57 | November 25, 2024 7:58 AM
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I'm surprised the pay disparity between Erivo and Grande is so large. But I suppose if they'd got someone lesser known to play Glinda, there'd have been more in the budget for Erivo.
I mean, $1m is a massive sum of money anyway, but $15m is crazy money. Is she even that good? She's more of a singer than an actress, though obviously there's crossover.
by Anonymous | reply 58 | November 25, 2024 11:49 AM
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1 Million sounds like a lot of money. But it's not like Cynthia is pocketing 1 million dollars. 30% probably comes of the top to pay her team - agents, managers, publicist, et al.. So she is left with 700K. Assuming she just has taxes and nothing else that needs to be taken out, you are talking about 480K maybe. And for a role of a lifetime in a major motion picture as a co-lead that you have to do months and months of publicity for, 480K doesn't feel like a lot in comparison to what other actors normally get paid for that type of work.
by Anonymous | reply 59 | November 25, 2024 1:25 PM
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[quote] She "identifies as queer"? There's no way those fingernails have ever been near a vagine.
You know she and Lena Waithe are a couple, right? The latter cheating on her ex wife, no less.
Two things can be true simultaneously: Erivo can be exhausting personally while delivering an amazing performance.
I realize that’s probably too subtle for the normal DL binary thinking, but hey, it’s a day that ends in -y.
by Anonymous | reply 60 | November 25, 2024 2:02 PM
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Let me tell you about Cynthia Erivo.
by Anonymous | reply 62 | November 25, 2024 4:00 PM
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I thought the characters were meant to be teenagers in the musical
by Anonymous | reply 63 | November 25, 2024 4:02 PM
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"Cynthia Erivo and partner Lena Waithe first went public with their relationship in 2022 after their close friendship turned into something more."
by Anonymous | reply 64 | November 25, 2024 4:17 PM
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She is extremely talented and has a right to a bit of an ego. Focus on how you look in the mirror rather than fixating on her - I'm sure the people around you are terrorized by your appearance in one way or another. You may be able to do something about it.
by Anonymous | reply 65 | November 25, 2024 5:04 PM
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[quote]is correct and you can actually Google both salaries.
You're an idiot if you think they published those ladies salaries.
by Anonymous | reply 66 | November 25, 2024 5:07 PM
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You're the fucking idiot. I just Googled it moron. Try it and it comes right up $15 million and 1 million
by Anonymous | reply 67 | November 25, 2024 7:11 PM
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[quote] You know she and Lena Waithe are a couple, right? The latter cheating on her ex wife, no less.
I remember that and it was messy. I hope Cynthia realizes that you could lose them the way you got them because Lena seems like one problematic lesbian.
by Anonymous | reply 68 | November 25, 2024 7:12 PM
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Ok but have you all taken in the lyrics of "Defying Gravity" and really held space with that?
by Anonymous | reply 69 | November 25, 2024 8:28 PM
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I don't know, I've worked in and around the film industry for years. For the most part I feel that actors should be seen and not heard unless it is about the work. I give two fucks about your personal beliefs, I want to hear about what it was like to film that one scene, you know? Actors all tend to be on some fucking spectrum or living in their own reality most of the time. I like the ones you can talk to about gardening or cooking with.
by Anonymous | reply 70 | November 25, 2024 9:00 PM
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She's a lot easier to look at as Elphaba, and it has nothing to do with her skin color. Try eyebrows, hair and no bullring through her enormous schnozz.
by Anonymous | reply 71 | November 25, 2024 9:20 PM
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She was delightful on Graham Norton last Friday and shared the spotlight graciously.
by Anonymous | reply 72 | November 25, 2024 9:22 PM
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Not to mention she was seemingly at a normal, non-anorexic weight during filming than she is now.
by Anonymous | reply 73 | November 25, 2024 9:24 PM
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R71 “Nothing to do with her skin color”. (Code for ‘I’m not a racist’). Then immediately goes onto point out “her enormous schnozz.” (Code for: ‘fooled you, I am a racist’).
by Anonymous | reply 74 | November 25, 2024 9:24 PM
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This is why I'm out when my subscription expires. I didn't leave the US to have you people's racism, let alone pay for it.
by Anonymous | reply 75 | November 25, 2024 9:25 PM
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Trump should fast track her for deportation.
by Anonymous | reply 76 | November 25, 2024 9:33 PM
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r74, there is something wrong with you to think that pointing out her enormous schnozz is racist. Owen Wilson, Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Lea Michelle also have enormous noses. They don't go out of their way to draw attention to them with an ugly nose ring.
by Anonymous | reply 77 | November 25, 2024 9:35 PM
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R77 look out micro aggressions and then get back to me x
by Anonymous | reply 78 | November 25, 2024 10:00 PM
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R72 I suspect that was only because she was sat next to Nicole Kidman.
by Anonymous | reply 79 | November 25, 2024 11:51 PM
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I already mentioned Dr. Prof. Maya Angelou whose grandness was preposterously grande and based on what? I also collaborated a couple times with Toni Morrison who was very grand but also very nice, and she had a lot of talent. Erivo has a lot of talent. Is she nice? Or not?
by Anonymous | reply 80 | November 25, 2024 11:59 PM
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Reading backwards. See, R72 said the same I said about Erivo on Seth Myers. She was pleasant. She swept into the room like Diana Ross in the Mahogany cat walk scenes, but hey.
by Anonymous | reply 81 | November 26, 2024 12:05 AM
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Listening to the soundtrack and Jesus Christ, Erivo on"The Wizard and I" is thrilling.
by Anonymous | reply 82 | November 26, 2024 12:21 AM
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What was she in before this? People keep talking about her like I’m supposed to know who she is
by Anonymous | reply 83 | November 26, 2024 1:30 AM
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[quote]Listening to the soundtrack and Jesus Christ, Erivo on"The Wizard and I" is thrilling.
She's a much more technically proficient singer than Menzel, and it really shows in a couple of songs.
by Anonymous | reply 84 | November 26, 2024 1:30 AM
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These two are annoying AF but they do have talent
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 85 | November 26, 2024 2:00 AM
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I didn't know Platt could sing that way.
by Anonymous | reply 86 | November 26, 2024 2:04 AM
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Like Michael Jackson had vitiligo !
by Anonymous | reply 89 | November 26, 2024 4:23 PM
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R28 “you Queens would be shooting loads on the back of the IMAX seat in front of you”.
So that’s what the commotion was in the Alton Street IMAX last Wednesday!
It was like a bathhouse in there.
by Anonymous | reply 90 | November 26, 2024 4:34 PM
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[quote] She is extremely talented and has a right to a bit of an ego. Focus on how you look in the mirror rather than fixating on her -
Oh for fuck's sake: save it for church, Preachy. This is Datalounge.
by Anonymous | reply 91 | November 26, 2024 4:40 PM
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I think it's hilarious that R77 goes on to point out three people with Jewish backgrounds who happen to have enormous schnozes too, to prove he isn't a racist. HA! It doesn't get much funnier than that.
by Anonymous | reply 92 | November 26, 2024 4:44 PM
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Nose rings look like snot hanging off the nose.
by Anonymous | reply 93 | November 26, 2024 5:43 PM
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After that performance in Wicked, I don't care if she's the biggest cunt who ever cunted. She earned the right. And quite frankly, all actors are pretentious and too much.
by Anonymous | reply 94 | November 26, 2024 5:48 PM
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You could tell them apart r43?
by Anonymous | reply 95 | November 27, 2024 11:24 AM
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[quote]You're the fucking idiot. I just Googled it moron. Try it and it comes right up $15 million and 1 million
But I Googled it! I Googled it!
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 96 | November 27, 2024 1:07 PM
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God I hate musicals. Chicago and Moulin Rouge are the ONLY musicals I enjoyed. Will I hate this too?
by Anonymous | reply 97 | November 29, 2024 7:57 AM
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She is a proud graduate of the Kevin Sessums Finishing School.
by Anonymous | reply 98 | November 29, 2024 10:08 AM
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Universal Studios is lying.
by Anonymous | reply 99 | November 29, 2024 1:56 PM
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@R8 she sounds like DL fave Stephen.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 100 | November 29, 2024 3:04 PM
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Cynthia is a great performer but for me it will always be the way she intentionally broke up the marriage between Lena Waithe and her wife that will always have me looking at her sideways.
by Anonymous | reply 101 | November 29, 2024 3:56 PM
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I thought Lena Waithe cheated constantly on her wife?
by Anonymous | reply 102 | November 29, 2024 4:54 PM
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A breakup takes two. Waithe is as guilty as Erivo.
by Anonymous | reply 104 | November 29, 2024 5:22 PM
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[quote]The way I dress is innately queer.
Dafuck out of here with this shit.
by Anonymous | reply 105 | November 29, 2024 5:22 PM
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She makes Billy Porter look subdued.
by Anonymous | reply 106 | November 29, 2024 8:33 PM
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Cynthia is kind. Cynthia is smart. Cynthia is important.
by Anonymous | reply 107 | November 29, 2024 9:09 PM
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Someone MUST write a Dr. Sam Airport Luggage Thief Brinton musical and hire Erivo to cross dress as a male cross dresser to play Sam.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 108 | November 29, 2024 9:09 PM
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LOVE her - what a great performance
by Anonymous | reply 109 | November 29, 2024 9:10 PM
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WHEN she wins the Oscar for "Wicked" she will an EGOT.
by Anonymous | reply 110 | November 29, 2024 11:35 PM
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I think she's fabulous. I'm holding space for a new love interest, if she wants to join the AJLT universe.
by Anonymous | reply 111 | November 30, 2024 2:27 AM
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Saw Cynthia on Graham Norton last night. She was sane, sober and analytical.
I’m afraid the psychobabble is put on for the American GenZ audience.
She’s an actor after all, y’all!
by Anonymous | reply 112 | November 30, 2024 12:34 PM
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Why don't the people who give Ariana and Cynthia grief for being homewreckers ever say the same about Britney Spears?
She infamously stole Kfed away from his pregnant fiance and took her current ex con away from his wife and six kids . She even allegedly helped him kidnap some of them
But you can't say shit about Saint Britney I guess
by Anonymous | reply 113 | December 1, 2024 10:42 PM
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