“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.”

Erivo plays Elphaba in Jon M. Chu’s film adaptation of the musical which has been breaking records at the box office. Fans singing along during screenings of the film has sparked an online debate about audience conduct in theaters. Some theater managers have requested moviegoers stay mum through the show.

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, whose new movie Moana 2 debuted in US theaters on November 27, 2024, divided many people online after encouraging singing in theaters. Now, he has found an ally in Wicked‘s Cynthia Erivo,

"Wicked" star Cynthia Erivo is voicing her opinion on whether fans in theaters should be able to sing along to her and Ariana Grande’s blockbuster movie musical.

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Cynthia Erivo has no problem with moviegoers singing along during screenings of Wicked. In fact, she fully supports it. On Thursday, the film's star was at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York,

It feels like things happened really fast, but the truth is it has taken a long time to get to this point in life,” she says of starring in the movie musical.

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

Actress Cynthia Erivo could achieve a coveted achievement during the next awards season after her incredible performance in Universal's Wicked.