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Cynthia Erivo Hopes to Keep Creating Work That Will ‘Resonate and Hopefully Move People’
Cynthia Erivo on receiving Variety's Creative Impact Award and her hopes to keep creating Work that will "Resonate and hopefully move people'
Just six years later, she will be lauded with Variety’s Creative Impact in Acting Award, commemorating the Emmy, Grammy and Tony award-winning performer’s latest achievement: playing Elphaba in “Wicked.” Previous recipients of the Creative Impact in Acting Award include Penelope Cruz, Emily Blunt, Steve Carell, Glenn Close, Robert De Niro, Jonah Hill, Daniel Kaluuya and Viggo Mortensen. Erivo approached Elphaba diligently, not just honoring the lore of the Broadway musical and the 1939 classic film “The Wizard of Oz” which inspired it, but also as homage to Black women.
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