Wicked’s Cynthia Erivo slams fans for 'offensive' edits to movie poster

Fans of the musical have made their own edits to the movie poster to match the Broadway one, but Erivo is calling it “offensive”.

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Wicked star Cynthia Ario has slammed fans for Photoshopping, the movie's poster.

The New Image is an homage to the original Broadway poster, with Glinda whispering into Alpha's ear.

However, the movie version is slightly different to the original, with one big change being that Alpha's full face is visible.

Fans of the musical have since made their own edits to the movie poster to match the Broadway one, but Ario is calling it offensive for To her instagram story, the actress said.

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, she added.

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, 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.