{"id":463484,"date":"2026-05-28T00:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T00:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/463484\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T00:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T00:18:11","slug":"cynthia-erivo-says-she-doesnt-want-to-talk-about-wicked-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/463484\/","title":{"rendered":"Cynthia Erivo Says She Doesn&#8217;t Want to Talk About &#8216;Wicked&#8217; Anymore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260527_bf21d4a4212e437d9bcf6ba62a2016ae\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:e8217b44-3e8a-4fef-9563-856883fbbb85\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/bf21d4a4212e437d9bcf6ba62a2016ae_md.jpg\" alt=\"cynthia erivo wicked getty comp\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/cynthia-erivo\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cynthia Erivo<\/a> is officially drawing the line on all things &#8216;Wicked,&#8217; and she wants it on the record.<\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/CynthiaErivo?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">#CynthiaErivo<\/a> is done talking about <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/Wicked?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">#Wicked<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause I feel like I\u2019ve spent the last two years talking about it, and I think that we have an opportunity to talk about something else,\u201d she told Variety. \u201cAnd I love \u2018Wicked,\u2019 but I\u2019ve just talked about it ad nauseam.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watch the\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GiooIAfSDw\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/GiooIAfSDw<\/a><br \/>\n              <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Variety\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">@Variety<\/a>\n          <\/p>\n<p>During a <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/legit\/features\/cynthia-erivo-surviving-wicked-texting-ariana-grande-1236757557\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Variety<\/a> interview on Wednesday, Cynthia was playing a game of guessing famous lyrics from her past projects &#8230; until the line &#8220;you\u2019re the only friend I ever had&#8221; from the &#8216;For Good&#8217; film had her visibly tense up and ask if they could move on to literally anything else.<\/p>\n<p>Cynthia pointed out she&#8217;s spent the past two years talking about the &#8216;Wicked&#8217; movies, and while she still loves the film, she&#8217;s discussed it &#8220;ad nauseam.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>TBH, the accompanying written feature was pretty heavy on &#8216;Wicked&#8217; content &#8212; with Cynthia delving into the viral jokes and the backlash to her friendship with her Glinda, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/ariana-grande\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ariana Grande<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>            Play video content<\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2a7260c47ff0404d8bfcd9770773ace3_md.png\" alt=\"111325 wicked premiere kal.jpg\" width=\"728\" height=\"410\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Cynthia even alluded to the fact that the conversation about how she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2025\/11\/13\/cynthia-erivo-protects-ariana-grande-wicked-premiere-singapore\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">defended<\/a> Ariana against a red-carpet intruder in Singapore turned her off the idea of campaigning for an Oscar for &#8220;Wicked: For Good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So yeah, Cynthia&#8217;s ready to defy the rules of gravity &#8230; something straight outta &#8220;Wicked.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>      <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cynthia Erivo is officially drawing the line on all things &#8216;Wicked,&#8217; and she wants it on the record.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,146,85,46,43,105,228,83713],"class_list":["post-463484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-tmz-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}