The Drew Barrymore Show: “Wicked” Star Cynthia Erivo

"Wicked" Star Cynthia Erivo

Air Date: Tuesday, December 10^th

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Cynthia on Working with Director John M. Chu

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Cynthia: He got to really understand how I tick and how I work so he really allowed me to be a part of the creative process with him. I love him very much. He's one of the most wonderful people I've ever met and truly one of the most wonderful people to have worked with because he has still the imagination of a kid, you know, so he wants to build the world, he wants all of the detail in it. And so he allows for you to do the same and we would have all the conversations, all the little things that would, I would be afraid of I could share it with him. Anything that was making me tick a little bit, then I would share it with him. If I had an idea, I could share it with him. It doesn't matter what the idea was there, nothing was too silly, nothing was too small, nothing was too big. I could give him all of the sort of things I was thinking and we could try anything on a set. I would always know when he was, when he was happy and we would get the take and I would always be like, 'Can I just one more?,' and he would be like, 'This is the one, this is the one we're going to go for it,' because he was new that once he was fine with something, unless I was fine with it, then we weren't moving on. So, he would give me the chance to really do what I felt needed to be done as well. It's like I call him my brother. I'm always like, this is the big brother and that's how, what our relationship was. So, anything that he was thinking there were times when we would cry together, we would go through things together. I met his kids and his wife.

Drew: What would you cry about? What was something?

Cynthia: Something that both of us really understood and understand what it feels like to not fit, to be different, to come to a place that isn't necessarily made for you. Whether it's at school where you just don't feel like you fit in or you might be bullied or you might be the odd one out, both of us really knew what that felt like. And so he made me feel really safe to use those memories to funnel that information into this character but he would also understand what that was.

Drew: That's why I wanted to ask you because I was like, I felt a partnership from the two of you.

Cynthia on the Box Office Success of "Wicked"

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Drew: That has made, you know, not just box office history, which by the way, congratulations.

Cynthia: Thank you very much. It's so crazy.

Drew: Just that female led film that broke every box office record in the world, worldwide. I mean it's just such a miracle.

Cynthia: It's insane. I don't think I've really processed it yet. Because you know when you're just like I wanted to do with this, it didn't matter if I like it didn't matter if it did that, I just wanted to be a part of this piece. I knew how special it was. And so for all of this to come from it, I keep saying it's like with being right within a dream.

Cynthia on What She Wants to Do Next

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Drew: Is there another Broadway musical that you think of in history that you're like, I would go on a date with myself to that and dream about maybe one day.

Cynthia: I think it keeps coming up so maybe I'm just going to go with it. Aida. I feel like it might be really obvious, its either that or Sweet Charity.

Drew: Oh my God. What else would you like to see in films?

Cynthia: I'd love to see how varied we can be as people. I think sometimes we're afraid to see us as villains and we're afraid to see the complications that comes from as a villain. And I think that's probably come from playing this particular character. There's more behind the veil, you know?

Drew: You proved that right. This is the most complex layered, un-archetypal approach and performance I've ever seen in my life.

Cynthia: There's another thing I, there is an era in film where there were lots of women in action and that sort of has gone a little bit I want it back because I want to do more.

Drew: Yeah. Hm. Interesting. What I wouldn't give. I have an idea?

Cynthia on Her Strong Connection with "Wicked" Co-Star Ariana Grande

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Cynthia: I think I'm, I'm sort of used to it now. I'm sort of, if it doesn't, if it's not like connected, I'm like, what's wrong? What's happening? Where are you? You know what I mean? We always end up, we walking hand-in-hand very often. Like, if we're not walking hand in hand, we'll find each other somewhere, you know.

Drew: Because physical connection, you I'm single, I'm not dating anyone. I don't have that in my life but I don't know how I would ever hold back from holding hands, hugging, snuggling.

Cynthia: I think we get a bit afraid of physical connection. I think we assume that physical connection can only be romantic.

Drew: In fact, I think when there is a romantic connection, I'm far more timid.

Cynthia: Well, that's the thing. I think we don't realize that how we communicate sometimes is by physical touch. Like sometimes you can't say anything and you're in a room and you're like, I just that it's just like a squeeze of hand and that's sometimes how she and I communicate, we might be talking to someone or I might need to, like, communicate something to her. And I'm, it's just a squeeze of the hand or just like a, a pinch of a finger, you know, or a hug. It just, you know, whatever we, however we need to communicate, it is how we need to communicate. And I think we don't give enough credit to how we communicate with our friends physically.

Drew: And I think if we could all be more comfortable with physical touch, I would like that world.

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