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Posted: 2024-10-29T19:22:15Z | Updated: 2024-10-29T19:23:03Z

After giving it some additional thought, Cynthia Erivo says she wished she had a different reaction to the viral fan edit of the poster for Wicked.

While speaking with Entertainment Tonight on the red carpet at the 2024 CFDA Fashion Awards on Monday, the actress, 37, admitted blasting the poster on social media earlier this month was a human moment.

Im passionate about [the film] and I know the fans are passionate about it and I think for me it was just like a human moment of wanting to protect little Elphaba, and it was like a human moment, she told the publication. I probably should have called my friends, but its fine.

In case you missed it, Erivo who stars as the green-skinned Elphaba, aka the Wicked Witch of the West, in the Jon M. Chu-directed musical shared a photo of the modified poster along with some pointed words on her Instagram story earlier this month.

This is the wildest, most offensive thing I have seen, equal to that awful AI of us fighting, equal to people posing the question is your ***** green, Erivo captioned her Oct. 16 post alongside the fan-made poster. None of this is funny. None of it is cute. It degrades me. It degrades us.

The fan-altered poster attempted to mimic the original promo art for the 2003 Broadway musical by lowering Elphabas witch hat to partially cover Erivos eyes and face, which Erivo deemed degrading.

The original poster is an ILLUSTRATION, the actress added in her initial post. 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.

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