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Cynthia Erivo Opens Up About Her Queerness: ‘The More Yourself You Are, The Better Understanding Starts to Happen’
Cynthia Erivo tells Billboard about queerness, 'Wicked: For Good', new album 'I Forgive You', the idea of an EGOT, her stance on politics and more.
Erivo had been out to her close friends and family since her early twenties, but playing Celie for two years began to open the door to come out publicly, as fully embodying the experience of a queer woman eight times a week slowly made her more assured. After closing out her run in The Color Purple, she booked her first film roles, in Drew Goddard’s Bad Times at the El Royale and Steve McQueen’s Widows, holding her own on-screen with stars like Viola Davis and Jeff Bridges. The second part of the duology, Wicked: For Good, will arrive in November, and Erivo warns fans unfamiliar with the source material that her viridescent heroine, Elphaba, enters much darker territory in the second act.
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