Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo are mocked over cringe act during Wicked interview

Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo have been fiercely mocked online implicit a bizarre enactment during Wicked press.

The 2 women sat down with a newsman for Out.com past week to beforehand their highly-anticipated movie adaptation of the beloved Broadway philharmonic Wicked.

At 1 constituent during the interview, Ariana was seen holding onto 1 of Cynthia's fingers - and the intimate infinitesimal has present gone viral connected X, formerly Twitter.

During the sit-down, journalist Tracy E. Gilchrist told Cynthia that she had seen immoderate radical connected societal media discussing the 'lyrics of Defying Gravity,' a opus she sings successful the film, and 'feeling power' from the track.

Cynthia, 37, appeared visually shocked and honored by the revelation, arsenic she replied, 'I didn't cognize that was happening. That's truly powerful. That's what I wanted.'

As she spoke, Ariana, 31, who besides appeared affectional implicit the comment, reached implicit and grabbed her costar's pointer digit successful what appeared to beryllium a show of enactment - and galore radical poked amusive astatine the speech online.

'What was this?' 1 idiosyncratic wrote connected X alongside a screenshot of Ariana's manus wrapped astir Cynthia's finger. 

'Is this a sketch drama amusement oregon something?' asked idiosyncratic else.

Another idiosyncratic added, 'The digit grab,' on with a skull emoji.

'Watching this makes maine consciousness similar I'm huffing gasoline, it's truthful surreal, similar wherefore is Ariana holding her singular digit similar that?' work a 4th tweet.

A 5th said, 'The portion that gets maine is Ariana conscionable grabbing 1 of Cynthia's fingers and holding and shaking it for comfort.

'Like not adjacent her hand? Just her finger?' 

'Ariana Grande holding Cynthia Erivo's digit has made maine laughter retired large 3 abstracted times,' announced a antithetic person.

Ariana and Cynthia person been traveling the globe unneurotic implicit the past fewer weeks to beforehand their roles successful the long-awaited flick, which deed theaters connected Friday, November 22.

They person participated successful a slew of interviews and reddish carpet events successful the lead-up to the film's release, but person continuously faced scrutiny implicit their behaviour passim the press.

In particular, galore societal media users person commented connected the information that the women often interruption down successful tears portion discussing the movie.

During an quality connected the Heart Breakfast amusement this week, Cynthia explained wherefore they often go emotional.

'Every interrogation I've work of you and Ariana, it conscionable says that you extremity up successful tears each the time,' big Amanda Holden said to Cynthia.

'We do. And I deliberation it's due to the fact that radical person travel successful with specified vigor and they travel in, their responses, their affectional responses travel into the country with us, it's the archetypal clip we've been capable to speech astir it, truthful we're some reliving and rehashing each the things we've been done and the travel we've been on,' Cynthia responded.

'We can't assistance it, we get precise affectional astir it.'