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Adam McKay ‘Wouldn’t Be Surprised’ if ‘Wicked’ Was Banned in the U.S.
Director Adam McKay said 'Wicked' could be banned in the U.S. for its messaging.
When another X account responded to McKay’s original tweet, writing, “It just looked like more American fantasy, franchise-wringing,” the director told the user he’d be “shocked” at Wicked ‘s central themes. In a now-viral press interview, Out reporter Tracy E. Gilchrist informed Erivo, who identifies as queer, how LGBTQ people are resonating with the lyrics of “Defying Gravity.” “When I posed the question to Cynthia about people holding space with the lyrics to ‘Defying Gravity,’ it was two days after the election, and everyone I knew in the LGBTQ+ community was trying to make sense of what we might be facing,” Gilchrist later clarified in an Out article.
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