cross-posted from: https://poptalk.scrubbles.tech/post/1559544
Fans customized the Wicked movie poster to more closely match the original Broadway poster.
Original Broadway Poster:
Movie poster:
Some fans, disappointed by the poster, altered it to be closer to the original, moving Grande’s hand and lowering the brim of Erivo’s hat to cover her eyes. The edits prompted Erivo to respond. “This is the wildest, most offensive thing I have seen
“None of this is funny. None of it is cute. It degrades me. It degrades us,” Erivo continued. “The original poster is an ILLUSTRATION. I am a real life human being, who chose to look right down the barrel of the camera to you, the viewer… because, without words we communicate with our eyes.”
So, this seems like a completely reasonable reaction to fans making fan content.
I’d always assumed photographers and directors and producers made the kinds of decisions around “will the subjects eyes be visible or obscured”. I didn’t realize the actors made those kinds of calls.
It really sounds like this was a sticking point to her. I said elsewhere, but it really sounds like she’s the one who forced her full face to be seen on the poster, or at least that’s the impression she leaves us with after reading this.
Which makes me think that the original design was closer to the original, and sounds like she made a stink about it.