Cynthia Erivo says she felt 'trepidation' about coming out as queer and struggled with fears she would 'offend people' with her sexuality

Cynthia Erivo has revealed she felt 'trepidation' astir coming retired arsenic she shared uncommon penetration into her sexuality successful a caller interview.

The Wicked star, 37, said connected the Reign with Josh Smith podcast that that she feared she would 'offend people' erstwhile she decided to stock that she was bisexual, but she present feels 'very, precise successful her tegument and successful her body.'

Cynthia archetypal came retired backmost successful May 2022 during an interrogation with British Vogue, and has since said she's 'really proud' of the mode she shared it.

She said: 'I consciousness precise powerful. I consciousness very, precise successful my skin, successful my body. And I emotion it. And I deliberation the happening that has been truly heartening is watching different young radical go, ''oh my gosh, She's similar me. She gets it.''

'There's thing truly fantastic astir watching idiosyncratic who is conscionable living, enjoying her life, working, creating, and conscionable being. I deliberation that that's thing that I don't instrumentality for granted astatine all, but I bash deliberation it's important for different young queer radical who conscionable are trying to find their mode to themselves to see. 

'It's been a truly absorbing travel also, due to the fact that sometimes you attack it with a just magnitude of trepidation like, ''Are radical going to beryllium good with me? How are radical going to be, if I accidental the connection queer, are radical going to beryllium offended?'' And past you benignant of halt caring that overmuch astir that origin it's conscionable who I am. It's conscionable portion of the tapestry of the quality being that is successful beforehand of you.' 

'It takes a agelong clip to get to a spot similar that. It besides takes determination to get there. My beingness has not been perfect, let's enactment it that way. 

'I've had immoderate fig of large elephantine knocks and large rejections and superior hurts and each of that. But if you're consenting to let those things to turn you alternatively of shrink you it benignant of keeps revealing antithetic pages of who you are and those things travel away.

'And if you don't let the words that radical accidental sometimes instrumentality and it takes clip to fto them travel disconnected you, erstwhile you do, you realise that astir of those words are conscionable reflections of themselves, of different people. 

'And erstwhile you instrumentality disconnected each of the worldly that different radical enactment connected you, you amusement up. And hopefully you get to a spot wherever you find yourself feeling comfy capable to instrumentality that mentation of who you spot into each country you locomotion into. 

'You consciousness adjacent much assured erstwhile you instrumentality that mentation of who you are into a country that you locomotion into, fto them enactment there. Don't alteration them. Don't shift. Don't bend. Just be. I've learned to truly bask being and similar watching radical conscionable judge it.'

During the interview, Cynthia besides shared that she enjoyed intimate chats with her Wicked co-stars Jonathan Bailey and Lenah Waithe astir being queer, portion they worked connected the much-anticipated adaptation of the 2003 musical.

She continued: 'I've had immoderate truly bully chats with Johnny Bailey. I've had immoderate fantastic chats with Lena Waithe who is simply a bully person arsenic well… conscionable thoughtful deductions of what the satellite is and I deliberation that's what we extremity up talking about.

'Johnny and I had a truly fantastic speech astir queerness and what that means for america and however we determination done the satellite successful our ain queerness. 

'He's truthful passionate astir making definite that there's abstraction for each of us… I deliberation it was similar an oculus opening speech due to the fact that it was the archetypal clip I truly got to cognize him and I truly liked that quality being.'

Cynthia has already earned captious praise for her show arsenic Elphaba, starring alongside Ariana Grande who plays the iconic witch Glinda.

It comes aft a rumoured database of the cast's salaries for Wicked sparked a frenzy connected societal media.

While the numbers person not been confirmed and it's unclear who shared the database first, galore radical are commenting connected the reports and sharing their thoughts. 

In the alleged wage report, the philharmonic movie's starring star, Cynthia  was reportedly paid $1 cardinal portion the supporting actress Ariana is making implicit tenfold the aforesaid number.

The popular sensation is reportedly getting paid $15 cardinal for her portion successful the philharmonic movie adaptation — which broke records successful its opening play numbers for immoderate Broadway movies.

Meanwhile, Michelle Yeoh and Jeff Goldblum, who play Madame Morrible and the Wizard, respectively, are reportedly earning $2 cardinal each. 

As for the remainder of the main formed members, the database alleged that Jonathan Bailey, besides known for playing Prince Fiyero, is reportedly earning conscionable nether fractional a million.

His rumored wage is $450,000 portion Ethan Slater, who plays Boq and met his now-girlfriend Grande portion moving connected the movie, is reportedly earning $350,000.  

Marissa Bode and Bowen Yang's reported salaries are $250,000 each, per the rumored list. 

Wicked is the root communicative of 'a green-skinned pistillate who becomes the Wicked Witch of the West.'

It serves arsenic a prequel to The Wizard of Oz, exploring the communicative earlier Dorothy's accomplishment and delving into the erstwhile relationship betwixt the characters Elphaba and Glinda.

The upcoming two-part diagnostic is adapted from the long-running Broadway philharmonic and is simply a sequel and prequel to The Wizard of Oz.

The question representation is slated to get successful theaters with merchandise dates of November 22, 2024 for Wicked: Part One, and November 26, 2025 for Wicked: Part Two.