Cynthia Erivo
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Who is Cynthia Erivo and what are her major works?
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We have the great privilege of seeing Wicked early.
What a dream.
And our guest today, Cynthia Erivo, is so dynamic and so powerful and so infectious and intoxicating and euphoria inducing. I fell so in love with her in this movie.
She's so good. So good in the movie. She's such a cool person. She's also like she just hosted the CFDA award. That's a huge fashion thing. She's very cool.
And then she arrived and she over-delivered. You have seen her in Harriet, Windows, Bad Times at El Royale, The Color Purple on Broadway. She's won all the awards. And of course, November 22nd, just in time for the big Turkey Day, Wicked. You're going to want to run out and see it. Buy your tickets now. Pre-order. If you didn't pre-order a month ago, you should already be panicked.
Yeah, panic.
Please enjoy Cynthia Erivo.
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How long have you been doing this? We launched in February of 2018 Almost seven years.
Yeah. You're many people's favorite. Oh, thank you.
We try to do the opposite of clickbaity. Even talk shows, which we love, you just go in and you do your thing and then you get out and there's no context and things blow up. Trying to sort of be the antidote to that.
Thank you for doing that.
Yeah, yeah, of course. I mean, for us too.
Things get so out of control. Yes, they do.
getting worse by the second. I don't know what the heck is happening.
People are seeking out the worst of things. It's very strange.
It's a little bit of a we say like outrage addiction.
Yeah.
And really unhealthy. It is. We're in sort of an interesting time where I feel like celebrities especially newer celebrities are starting to push back and like question fandom in a really interesting way.
It's like where the boundary is.
Exactly.
Where you get to be a part of my life and then when I get to have my life for myself.
Yeah. That you're a person.
It's like reminding people that humanity exists.
Yeah.
You can be a human being.
Exactly. It's sad that we have to remind people, but... Good morning. Good morning.
Oh, man. Oh, you smell so good. God, I smell like sweat. I just went on a hike. Well done. Thank you. Well, this is a long time coming. Oh, my goodness.
You're a miniature, too.
You are a miniature.
You're in good company. Are you jealous? She has even bigger pants on than you. I know. Her fashion's unknown. I'm Dax, by the way.
Nice to meet you.
Welcome. Thank you.
We've already talked about bags. The fashion is outrageous.
Do you want to sit down for two seconds? Because I don't have the knowledge base to talk about what I thought was really funny while I was researching you.
At least for one second. I try to tell him all the time that he only has some of the info.
Okay, Cynthia, I was watching an interview with you, and you had mentioned that you were about to do some Sommheim, and Kristen was readying herself for the day, and she stomped everything. She was like... Who is she playing?
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