Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo Celebrate 'Wizard of Oz' Remake 'Wicked for Good' as LGBTQ+ Triumph: 'The Gayer the Better'
At the London premiere of "Wicked for Good," the film's stars, pop singer Ariana Grande and actress Cynthia Erivo, told the press the "Wizard of Oz" has "always been a queer place" and added, "the gayer, the better."
Nothing sells a movie like virtue signaling from an anorexic has-been and a shaved gorilla.
Her sternocleidomastoids popping are freaking me out.
I'm tired of having to use the phrase 'I knew her when she was cute' for these celebrities..
Oh my god, are the studio heads just flat out sucking the youth out of their stars now?
Out: Adrenochrome
In: Arianachrome
Who owns the studios?
Weinstein was bad but, good lord, they're being fed to actual vampires now
She looks like she could play Jack Skellington in a live-action nightmare before Christmas.
Don't give Disney ideas.
So these two are in a mean girls pretend friendship right but it's actually anorexia?
"Both of them look sooooo cute" -- women who watch this movie
Honestly I think an underrated vector of radicalization is how virtually every Western woman will join ranks in complimenting famous women and act like you did another Holocaust if you ever mention that, say, Ariana looks like a Holocaust victim.
TIL anorexia nervosa is a made-up disease.
Well, it's all in her head
Reporter: "Ariana, tell us about..."
Cynthia: "Excuse me! EXCUSE ME! I told you a million times I want that camera pointed at my face at all times! I didn't work at this my whole life just so you could look at or talk to anyone else! I deserve this! Now bring the camera in closer so I can give you my blank stare. I want the entire frame to be taken up by my head."
She also whined because a fan recreated the movie poster to be like the musical.
Yeah guys ever heard of the dinosaur shrink wrapping theory? That's what they look like
When future sapient creatures examine fossils of these two's skeletons, their artistic renditions of how they looked in life will be amazingly accurate.
They'll also hypothesize that they were both female, based on their skeletal structures.
Is the book worth reading? I read the Baum Oz books as a kid. How was Wizard of Oz a queer place? I’ve read Baum’s book. Don’t think he had that in mind.
The book reframes the villain of the "Wizard of Oz" as a misunderstood victim, and "The Great and Powerful Oz" an abuser / coward who abuses said witch and then hides inside the city of Oz forever.
It was written in the early 00s but sounds pretty modern crap on someone else’s story.
It became a highly successful stage play / musical that sold almost exclusively to women. "Wicked" helped write the playbook for the "force is female", girl-boss lead popular media revolution. So many other movies (etc.) followed this example.
It's not. But you know how the gays like to "claim" things as "icons?" Judy Garland was a mainstream celebrity who associated herself with them. Her dad was gay, at least one of her husbands was bi, she hung out at gay bars with friends. Basically, the Lady Gaga of the 40s.
And once they claim someone, they'll claim all their work. Then claim the source material. To be a little fair, it is best known as a fairy land of campy musical theater, rainbows, and VERY important shoes.
But seriously, it's just the standard thing where they project of themselves onto a thing they liked and then it becomes a social contagion where one must like it to prove they're a member of the group.
That is true. Just like they somehow see “queer coding” in every book and comic book from the beginning of time. The original Baum books are good.
Insane that Harvey Weinstein was apparently the only thing keeping actresses from doing this to themselves.
Didn't we see this movie before...?
They both look incredibly ill.
Ariana Flaca, now
Lmao, she looks absolutely horrible. Get fucked.
While she's a brainwashed industry puppet, sold into it by her parents...I suspect Ariana Grande will pull a Drew Barrymore. Apparently she stopped eating junk, and lost weight in part from the reduced inflammation, and fewer empty calories. So, maybe in a few years she can say generic NPC things while kind of looking cute, again.
For the youngins, Drew Barrymore went from an adorable charismatic kid, to hot jailbait, to oddly meh and awkward adult, then did her child star tell all stuff, then gained some weight and looked good again.
Though, why a press tour, again? I figured this movie would be slowly becoming forgotten, by now.