Cynthia Erivo Had An A+ Response To An Interviewer Repeatedly Calling Her “Tough” In An Awkward Clip

“As a black woman, this kind of rhetoric is so exhausting. Stop trying to masculinize us unless we are specifically looking for it! Nobody would ask this question to her co-star. Go look at the recent drawings and memes coming out of this situation. She’s getting flak and racist responses for helping defend her costar. It’s disgusting,” one comment read.

“She handled this wonderfully but this is super painful. She is absolutely strong but tough feels incorrect and to be frank I don’t see ‘tough’ as I’ve followed her career. Nor does she bring tough to Elphaba. As a BW our normal vibes are always misinterpreted as tough, aggressive, angry, I’m so frustrated for her throughout this press run,” someone else said.

“Her publicist’s face says it all,” one viral post on X read, while another popular tweet said, “What the fuck bro? I feel so fucking bad for her.”