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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.

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by Anonymousreply 114December 1, 2024 10:49 PM

Can she PLEASE go somewhere- ANYWHERE

by Anonymousreply 1November 23, 2024 8:16 PM

I’m sure the key grip and the best boy cherished her attention.

by Anonymousreply 2November 23, 2024 8:20 PM

This bitch.

by Anonymousreply 3November 23, 2024 8:24 PM

I wonder what it is that annoys you so much about her, OP - given there are numerous threads

by Anonymousreply 4November 23, 2024 8:26 PM

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 Anonymousreply 5November 23, 2024 9:13 PM

Finally someone I can work with and be seen by. Not like that horrible AnnE Hathaway and Blake Lively.

by Anonymousreply 6November 23, 2024 10:24 PM

Certainly her ego is undeservedly limitless.

by Anonymousreply 7November 23, 2024 10:26 PM

"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 Anonymousreply 8November 23, 2024 10:28 PM

[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 Anonymousreply 9November 23, 2024 11:57 PM

Cynthia Erivo maybe the one actress that Datalounge and LipstickAlley despises equally. 😂

by Anonymousreply 10November 24, 2024 1:16 AM

She and Ariana are getting (deservedly) dragged and meme-d into oblivion by the internet for this deranged press tour.

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by Anonymousreply 11November 24, 2024 1:23 AM

God I am so sick of looking at her face everywhere

by Anonymousreply 12November 24, 2024 1:23 AM

She sounds like someone desperately trying to be profound yet only sounding like your drunk embarrassing aunt that won’t go home.

by Anonymousreply 13November 24, 2024 8:42 AM

PSB describe the phenom

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by Anonymousreply 14November 24, 2024 8:48 AM

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 Anonymousreply 15November 24, 2024 9:30 AM

Annoying as fuck, ugly as sin. When is she not whining about something?

by Anonymousreply 16November 24, 2024 9:33 AM

I think she's tremendous!

by Anonymousreply 17November 24, 2024 9:34 AM

It’s possible to be observant on film sets without being intrusive.

by Anonymousreply 18November 24, 2024 9:36 AM

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 Anonymousreply 19November 24, 2024 9:45 AM

^ it takes something we can all agree on that Cynthia is is insufferable and turns into a manifesto against diversity.

by Anonymousreply 20November 24, 2024 9:47 AM

No, you queens aren't racist at all..

by Anonymousreply 21November 24, 2024 10:19 AM

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 Anonymousreply 22November 24, 2024 10:24 AM

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 Anonymousreply 23November 24, 2024 10:46 AM

There's no modulation allowed for Erivo. That's what's racist.

by Anonymousreply 24November 24, 2024 10:50 AM

And that's before we start getting into the misogyny around here. Lots of Mommy issues proliferated around here by the self-indulgent.

by Anonymousreply 25November 24, 2024 10:51 AM

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 Anonymousreply 26November 24, 2024 11:07 AM

[quote]Can she PLEASE go somewhere- ANYWHERE

You first.

by Anonymousreply 27November 24, 2024 11:09 AM

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 Anonymousreply 28November 24, 2024 11:16 AM

I didn’t even know she was “queer”. I just think she’s incredibly annoying.

by Anonymousreply 29November 24, 2024 11:38 AM

Blocked posters galore on this thread.

by Anonymousreply 30November 24, 2024 11:46 AM

R30.

by Anonymousreply 31November 24, 2024 11:47 AM

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 Anonymousreply 32November 24, 2024 11:57 AM

How was Bowan Yang, r32? Does Ethan Slater look as ugly in the movie as he does in photos?

by Anonymousreply 33November 24, 2024 12:28 PM

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 Anonymousreply 34November 24, 2024 2:43 PM

[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 Anonymousreply 35November 24, 2024 2:47 PM

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 Anonymousreply 36November 24, 2024 2:52 PM

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 Anonymousreply 37November 24, 2024 2:54 PM

[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 Anonymousreply 38November 24, 2024 2:55 PM

Right.

[backs away]

by Anonymousreply 39November 24, 2024 2:56 PM

She is exhausting.

by Anonymousreply 40November 24, 2024 4:13 PM

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 Anonymousreply 41November 24, 2024 9:32 PM

Cynthia Erivo is the reason we lost the election.

by Anonymousreply 42November 24, 2024 11:16 PM

Cynthia Erivo came to my house and kicked my dog.

by Anonymousreply 43November 24, 2024 11:17 PM

Is there anything in the world that doesn't make Cynthia feel unseen, unacknowledged, unpersoned,, unheard, unappreciated?

by Anonymousreply 44November 24, 2024 11:19 PM

I am not spending a damn dime to see that Green Bitch.

by Anonymousreply 45November 24, 2024 11:20 PM

Is Cynthia the new Julie?

by Anonymousreply 46November 25, 2024 2:12 AM

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 Anonymousreply 47November 25, 2024 2:42 AM

[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 Anonymousreply 48November 25, 2024 3:14 AM

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 Anonymousreply 49November 25, 2024 3:22 AM

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 Anonymousreply 50November 25, 2024 3:23 AM

She "identifies as queer"? There's no way those fingernails have ever been near a vagine.

by Anonymousreply 51November 25, 2024 4:31 AM

R49 Clearly, you know nothing about how the entertainment INDUSTRY works.

by Anonymousreply 52November 25, 2024 5:38 AM

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 Anonymousreply 53November 25, 2024 5:47 AM

[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 Anonymousreply 54November 25, 2024 7:12 AM

Who else can't stand to look at her with that disgusting bull ring hanging off her nose?

by Anonymousreply 55November 25, 2024 7:34 AM

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 Anonymousreply 56November 25, 2024 7:54 AM

Wicked ‘s budget was $150 million. They probably spent more on chicken wraps than they did for Cynthia.

by Anonymousreply 57November 25, 2024 7:58 AM

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 Anonymousreply 58November 25, 2024 11:49 AM

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 Anonymousreply 59November 25, 2024 1:25 PM

[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 Anonymousreply 60November 25, 2024 2:02 PM

You tell them VOTN!

by Anonymousreply 61November 25, 2024 3:30 PM

Let me tell you about Cynthia Erivo.

by Anonymousreply 62November 25, 2024 4:00 PM

I thought the characters were meant to be teenagers in the musical

by Anonymousreply 63November 25, 2024 4:02 PM

"Cynthia Erivo and partner Lena Waithe first went public with their relationship in 2022 after their close friendship turned into something more."

by Anonymousreply 64November 25, 2024 4:17 PM

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 Anonymousreply 65November 25, 2024 5:04 PM

[quote]is correct and you can actually Google both salaries.

You're an idiot if you think they published those ladies salaries.

by Anonymousreply 66November 25, 2024 5:07 PM

You're the fucking idiot. I just Googled it moron. Try it and it comes right up $15 million and 1 million

by Anonymousreply 67November 25, 2024 7:11 PM

[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 Anonymousreply 68November 25, 2024 7:12 PM

Ok but have you all taken in the lyrics of "Defying Gravity" and really held space with that?

by Anonymousreply 69November 25, 2024 8:28 PM

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 Anonymousreply 70November 25, 2024 9:00 PM

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 Anonymousreply 71November 25, 2024 9:20 PM

She was delightful on Graham Norton last Friday and shared the spotlight graciously.

by Anonymousreply 72November 25, 2024 9:22 PM

Not to mention she was seemingly at a normal, non-anorexic weight during filming than she is now.

by Anonymousreply 73November 25, 2024 9:24 PM

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 Anonymousreply 74November 25, 2024 9:24 PM

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 Anonymousreply 75November 25, 2024 9:25 PM

Trump should fast track her for deportation.

by Anonymousreply 76November 25, 2024 9:33 PM

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 Anonymousreply 77November 25, 2024 9:35 PM

R77 look out micro aggressions and then get back to me x

by Anonymousreply 78November 25, 2024 10:00 PM

R72 I suspect that was only because she was sat next to Nicole Kidman.

by Anonymousreply 79November 25, 2024 11:51 PM

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 Anonymousreply 80November 25, 2024 11:59 PM

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 Anonymousreply 81November 26, 2024 12:05 AM

Listening to the soundtrack and Jesus Christ, Erivo on"The Wizard and I" is thrilling.

by Anonymousreply 82November 26, 2024 12:21 AM

What was she in before this? People keep talking about her like I’m supposed to know who she is

by Anonymousreply 83November 26, 2024 1:30 AM

[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 Anonymousreply 84November 26, 2024 1:30 AM

These two are annoying AF but they do have talent

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by Anonymousreply 85November 26, 2024 2:00 AM

I didn't know Platt could sing that way.

by Anonymousreply 86November 26, 2024 2:04 AM

Ughhhh! That dyke.

by Anonymousreply 87November 26, 2024 2:07 AM

Does she have Alopecia?

by Anonymousreply 88November 26, 2024 2:28 AM

Like Michael Jackson had vitiligo !

by Anonymousreply 89November 26, 2024 4:23 PM

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 Anonymousreply 90November 26, 2024 4:34 PM

[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 Anonymousreply 91November 26, 2024 4:40 PM

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 Anonymousreply 92November 26, 2024 4:44 PM

Nose rings look like snot hanging off the nose.

by Anonymousreply 93November 26, 2024 5:43 PM

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 Anonymousreply 94November 26, 2024 5:48 PM

You could tell them apart r43?

by Anonymousreply 95November 27, 2024 11:24 AM

[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!

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by Anonymousreply 96November 27, 2024 1:07 PM

God I hate musicals. Chicago and Moulin Rouge are the ONLY musicals I enjoyed. Will I hate this too?

by Anonymousreply 97November 29, 2024 7:57 AM

She is a proud graduate of the Kevin Sessums Finishing School.

by Anonymousreply 98November 29, 2024 10:08 AM

Universal Studios is lying.

by Anonymousreply 99November 29, 2024 1:56 PM

@R8 she sounds like DL fave Stephen.

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by Anonymousreply 100November 29, 2024 3:04 PM

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 Anonymousreply 101November 29, 2024 3:56 PM

I thought Lena Waithe cheated constantly on her wife?

by Anonymousreply 102November 29, 2024 4:54 PM

She looks like poop.

by Anonymousreply 103November 29, 2024 4:55 PM

A breakup takes two. Waithe is as guilty as Erivo.

by Anonymousreply 104November 29, 2024 5:22 PM

[quote]The way I dress is innately queer.

Dafuck out of here with this shit.

by Anonymousreply 105November 29, 2024 5:22 PM

She makes Billy Porter look subdued.

by Anonymousreply 106November 29, 2024 8:33 PM

Cynthia is kind. Cynthia is smart. Cynthia is important.

by Anonymousreply 107November 29, 2024 9:09 PM

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.

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by Anonymousreply 108November 29, 2024 9:09 PM

LOVE her - what a great performance

by Anonymousreply 109November 29, 2024 9:10 PM

WHEN she wins the Oscar for "Wicked" she will an EGOT.

by Anonymousreply 110November 29, 2024 11:35 PM

I think she's fabulous. I'm holding space for a new love interest, if she wants to join the AJLT universe.

by Anonymousreply 111November 30, 2024 2:27 AM

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 Anonymousreply 112November 30, 2024 12:34 PM

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 Anonymousreply 113December 1, 2024 10:42 PM

Shit about Britney.

by Anonymousreply 114December 1, 2024 10:49 PM
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