Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo posed at a photocall during the Australian premiere of “Wicked” in Sydney, Australia on Nov. 5.
Cynthia’s fans are shocked by her anorexic appearance! Photos from the promo event show Cynthia’s protruding neck bones and sunken cheeks.
Cynthia, 37, recently revealed to the New York Times that she and co-star Ariana, 31, contracted COVID and they had to pause filming.
“There was one time when I got Covid, there was another time when she got Covid,” Cynthia said in an interview published Wednesday, Nov. 6.
The actresses – who play Elphaba and Glinda in the movie adaptation of the Broadway musical – caught the COVID virus before filming their biggest musical numbers.
“We only got sick once each, but both were before some of the most important works of the whole movie,” said Ariana.
Cynthia said she caught COVID before filming her big number “Defying Gravity.” She believes catching COVID was a cosmic sign: “It was literally like, ‘Sit down, Cynthia, not yet.’”
We’d worked ourselves to the bone
Cynthia speculated that they caught COVID because they were exhausted and worked themselves to the bone.
“At first, it felt like an interruption, and then as it went on, it felt like the rest we needed,” she recalled. “We’d worked ourselves to the bone. I was really grateful because the next thing that we had to do [until the strike happened] was ‘Defying Gravity,’ and it felt like the universe going, ‘You need your full strength to do this.’”
Wicked will be split into two films, with the first part premiering in November 2024 and part 2 scheduled for early 2025.
