In an Oct. 16 Instagram story, Erivo posted the altered poster, in which her eyes had been covered and her lipstick had been changed from green to red. "This is the wildest, most offensive thing I have seen, equal to that awful Ai of us fighting, equal to people posing the question 'is your ***** green,'" wrote Erivo, who stars as Elphaba in the movie. "None of this is funny/ none of it is cute/ it degrades me/ it degrades us."
Erivo emphasized that in the original poster for the Broadway musical, Elphaba's eyes are covered by her witch's hat and she has red lips, which was 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," said the Tony Award-winning actor. "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."
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