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Cynthia Erivo Candidly talks about public reaction to her defense ariana grande from intruder evil: doing good Premiered in Singapore last year.
Erivo, 39, jumps to Grande’s defense after Australian man injured Jonathan Win trying to rush the actress In November 2025, she appeared on the red carpet as a singer. Wen followed Sentenced to nine days in jail Banned from entering Singapore for constituting a public nuisance.
“No one moved. No one moved. So I moved because my brain was thinking, ‘Get him out of here! Get him out of here!’ My first reaction was ‘Get him away from us,'” Erivo recalled in an interview. type Published on Wednesday, May 27th. “What people don’t see is, he won’t let (Grand) go. He won’t let go. So I kept pushing him, trying to get him off.”
“Strangers are strangers. Personal space is still personal space. It doesn’t belong to anyone, even if you feel like you know the person. In that moment, we were all scared,” she added.
Cynthia Erivo reflects on how her friendship with Ariana Grande captivated fans on Wicked press tour. “In the beginning, I think people didn’t understand how two women could be friends — intimate — and not be lovers,” Erivo, 39, told British outlet The Stylist on Tuesday, February 10, (…)
While the actress was praised for her quick thinking, Erivo told the outlet she was disturbed by some of the online reactions to the incident. type noted that the episode “sparked jokes, memes and TikTok videos depicting Erivo as Grande’s ‘bodyguard.'”
Erivo told the outlet, “I think we haven’t really come to terms with the insidious nature of how we view black women. I’m sure people are reading this and thinking, ‘Oh my God,’ and that’s not what this is about.” But it is. Because that’s what gets laughed at. This is my physique; this is my shape; this is the fact that I’m bald; this is about the way I look. Because of that, people think I’m bigger than my partner, so I have to control or protect, that’s my role. “
The Oscar nominee added: “I would hazard a guess that it wouldn’t be the same if it were the other way around.”
Erivo says Singapore event caused her to postpone Oscars campaign evil: doing goodin which she reprized the role of Elphaba. (Erivo was previously nominated for Best Actress in 2024 evil.)
“Actually, I think maybe in a way it did (bored me). I just felt like my humanity was being tainted,” Erivo revealed. “I feel like I did some things instinctively, and it wasn’t because of the way people looked at women who looked like me or the assumptions people made, I just didn’t want to be a part of that, really. I didn’t want to put myself through this. I felt like I didn’t deserve it.”
She added, “Even though we all knew the second movie was coming and we were just doing our jobs, it felt like the second one was already a bit off-putting.”
Indeed, although evil The sequel is up for 10 Oscar nominations in 2025, but didn’t score any earlier this year.
As for the possible appearance in the third part evil After the film, the actress said, “It’s too early to start talking about it. It’s going to take a lot for me to come back and do it. It has to make sense.”