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.

  • @BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
    35•2 months ago

    Yea, frankly the original is garbage. That photo is all about the actor having their face seen, and she doesn’t even have a wicked look on her face (as you pointed out). It’s more like Resting Bitch Face.

    The fan art is 1000% better, it imparts slyness in the witch, and some secret thing happening between them.

    I’ve seen better expressions in high school plays.

    • 🍜 (she/her)English
      2•2 months ago

      She definitely doesn’t have a smile that would suggest any wickedness about her. Thus the edited fan version looks better.