Depraved fever is sweeping the nation — and earlier than the film’s even hit theaters (it arrives subsequent Friday, FYI), Cynthia Erivo is pulling the curtain again on among the movie’s styling secrets and techniques.
In a current interview with Elle, the actor behind Elphaba revealed how lengthy it took for her to make her full transformation in costume — and the shocking physique mods that have been essential to change her look.
Cynthia says that the shade of inexperienced make-up utilized to her pores and skin was actually referred to as “Cynthia Inexperienced” — and that it often took a long-ass time to cowl her pores and skin with it.
“Relying on how a lot inexperienced we have been doing — head, chest, fingers, full physique — it may take as much as 4 hours,” she claimed.
“Every little thing was specific, proper right down to my eyebrows,” Cynthia added, stating that her make-up artist additionally “created a vacuum kind so the freckles would keep in the identical place day-after-day.”
Most surprisingly, Cynthia revealed that she additionally needed to have ear prosthetics created for her to totally develop into Elphaba — and the rationale why has to do with Cynthia herself and never the character she performed.
“I’ve one million piercings, so that they introduced in a prosthetic artist, who created principally a shell for my ears,” she stated. “These aren’t my ears!”
Only for comparability’s sake: This is Cynthia on the purple carpet, along with her actual ears…
And here is a superb have a look at the prosthetic ears she wore on set. (That is Depraved director Jon M. Chu speaking along with her whereas Ariana Grande seems to be on within the background.)
The magic of the films, everybody! Learn your complete interview right here, and for those who’ve obtained some superb cinematic transformations of your individual to share, drop ’em within the feedback.
