“But we were never going for a witchy look,” she added about the making of Erivo’s character. “We were making it very real, very timeless and very connected to everybody. We weren’t going for the prosthetic fantasy version at all. Jon [M. Chu] always wanted everything real.”

Cynthia Erivo supports fans singing along to *Wicked*, despite cinemas requesting silence to avoid disturbing others.

Wicked” star Cynthia Erivo has weighed in on an internet debate about audience conduct: Should fans sing along to the film’s classic show tunes while seeing it at the movie theater? Erivo, who plays Elphaba,