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.

  • Kingofthezyx@lemm.eeEnglish
    301·
    29 days ago

    Yeah I’m confused here. It’s almost a direct edit to match the original (broadway) poster. Eyes hidden, lips red and becomes a smirk, those are the only changes.

    Honestly comes across like a bit of an ego-trip by the actress.

    • ThunderWhiskers@lemmy.worldEnglish
      91·
      29 days ago

      That’s exactly what it sounds like. I had to look up who the actress was and it sounds like she is upset about that. The unspoken communication she is trying to demonstrate with eye contact isn’t even well executed. She doesn’t look witchy at all, just like she’s holding in a fart.

    • HessiaNerd@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      29 days ago

      They moved the other actresses hand up to cover more of her face too (in an attempt to match the original poster)

      • dylanmorgan@slrpnk.netEnglish
        4·
        29 days ago

        Also, in the broadway poster and the fan edit of the movie poster, the position of the hand communicates “I am telling this person a secret.” In the original movie poster the position of the hand communicates “I’m hiding a zit” or maybe “I have a toothache.”