For me, it's not necessarily that she's black in the movie that I hate (although, spoiler alert - that, in itself, doesn't fit with the story at all), but how fucking ugly she is. Elphaba is meant to be sort of "nebbish" or geeky, initially, and then get "glammed up" by Glinda. Otherwise it makes no damn sense for Fiyero to be attracted to her at any point...
She was never supposed to be ugly as a shoe, which Erivo is, lol.
And also, if they were determined to go with a black actress, why not one who was actually born and grew up in a Western country, and so actually understood the context (if you read any of Erivo's tweets, or watch the interviews, she pretty clearly does not)..? Or, for that matter, why not choose someone younger than their late 30s..??
Nothing about that casting makes sense, and her very personality makes her a liability. Either this is an elaborate "gotcha", or she sucked a fair bit of dick to get to where she is... Or both. Both makes sense.
Edit: Why didn't they just cast the other chick featured in that article? She is literally orders of magnitude more attractive, had already played the roleand is very possibly less insane than the woman they chose... I mean, come on now.
Also, apparently she won something called the WhatsOnStage Award for Best Supporting Performer in a Female Identifying Role in a Musical...
I just... This isn't even worth parodying at this point. These people are completely nuts.
For me, it's not necessarily that she's black in the movie that I hate (although, spoiler alert - that, in itself, doesn't fit with the story at all), but how fucking ugly she is. Elphaba is meant to be sort of "nebbish" or geeky, initially, and then get "glammed up" by Glinda. Otherwise it makes no damn sense for Fiyero to be attracted to her at any point...
She was never supposed to be ugly as a shoe, which Erivo is, lol.
And also, if they were determined to go with a black actress, why not one who was actually born and grew up in a Western country, and so actually understood the context (if you read any of Erivo's tweets, or watch the interviews, she pretty clearly does not)..? Or, for that matter, why not choose someone younger than their late 30s..??
Nothing about that casting makes sense, and her very personality makes her a liability. Either this is an elaborate "gotcha", or she sucked a fair bit of dick to get to where she is... Or both. Both makes sense.
Edit: Why didn't they just cast the other chick featured in that article? She is literally orders of magnitude more attractive, had already played the role and is very possibly less insane than the woman they chose... I mean, come on now.
Also, apparently she won something called the WhatsOnStage Award for Best Supporting Performer in a Female Identifying Role in a Musical...
I just... This isn't even worth parodying at this point. These people are completely nuts.
They picked an ugly foreign nigger to humiliate you
Me specifically?
I ain't paying to go see this movie, bruh.
I saw Wicked when I was like, 13. With my family.
"Musical theatre" was briefly my thing, to some extent, but I am definitely not some Wicked fanatic, lol...
"you" as in whites and white culture/beauty standards