Wicked's Cynthia Erivo shares gruelling method green paint was applied - as zero CGI was used

Cynthia Erivo plays the Wicked Witch of the West, Elphaba Thropp arsenic she adds yet different iconic relation to her filmography

Actress Cynthia Erivo has revealed however she was turned greenish to play the iconic relation of Elphaba successful the long-awaited philharmonic adaptation of Wicked alongside Ariana Grande.

The star, 37, revealed that she had to acquisition an immense translation each time for the relation and it could instrumentality up to 4 hours to screen her successful overgarment arsenic she confirmed that nary CGI was utilized successful the making of the highly-anticipated movie.

"When you enactment the costume on, erstwhile you enactment the shoes connected and we're supported by each these artists, it conscionable takes it to the adjacent level," she revealed connected a caller NBC programme titled Defying Gravity: The Curtain Rises connected Wicked.

"Something happens erstwhile each of that greenish successful on. The freckles spell on, the hairsbreadth goes on, the make-up goes on, the eyes spell connected and it's not maine I'm looking at, it's her," she added.

Cynthia has been successful the headlines for each of the close reasons arsenic of precocious acknowledgment to her upcoming relation successful the movie Wicked, which releases successful cinemas this Friday (November 22). The histrion plays the Wicked Witch of the West, Elphaba Thropp arsenic she adds yet different iconic relation to her filmography.

Last week, Cynthia, Ariana Grande and Jeff Goldblum were among the Hollywood ensemble who arrived astatine the Royal Festival Hall successful London to amusement disconnected the expected-to-be blockbuster hit.

Cynthia ditched her staple look from erstwhile premieres and opted fro a flashy achromatic formal with a ruffled design. The attire offered a thigh-high divided with shimmering copper detail, portion she wore bicep magnitude gloves and a flamboyant headpiece to necktie it each together.

For the plot, the communicative takes spot successful the Land of Oz and follows the pals arsenic they instrumentality connected life-changing events. It was initially written by Gregory Maguire, with Jon M Chu the manager down the latest offering.

Cynthia archetypal gained designation for starring successful the Broadway revival of The Color Purple from 2015 to 2017 for which she won galore accolades including the Tony Award for Best Actress successful a Musical.

After her unthinkable vocation connected stage, she turned her attraction to films and starred successful movies including Widows, Bad Times astatine the El Royale and arsenic The Blue Fairy successful Pinocchio. She made her tv debut successful 2015 successful British sitcom Chewing Gum earlier going connected to prima successful intelligence thriller bid The Outsider successful 2020.

The pursuing twelvemonth she portrayed the icon Aretha Franklin successful anthology bid called Genius for which she received a information for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress.

The histrion released her debut medium Ch, 1 Vs. 1 successful 2021 which peaked astatine fig 77 successful the US medium charts. She released 2 singles from the medium that year, titled The Good and Glowing Up but some failed to chart.

In 2018, featured connected a opus called God Only Knows with John Legend which charted astatine fig 20 successful the US R&B charts. Her archetypal opus arsenic a pb creator that appeared successful the euphony charts was from the Beyond The Lights movie soundtrack.

Wicked releases successful cinemas this Friday.

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