It’s often said that hindsight is 20/20 – and within the case of Cynthia Erivo, it proves true. During an interview with Entertainment Tonight on the 2024 CFDA Fashion Awards on Monday night, the award-winning actress reflected on her recent backlash against a superfan-edited version of the poster for the highly anticipated film adaptation of “Wicked.”

“It wasn’t necessarily a slap. I actually protect this role. I’m very enthusiastic about it and I do know the fans adore it too,” she said publication. “I believe for me it was only a human moment where I wanted to protect little Elphaba, and it was like a human moment. I probably should have called my friends, but I’m nice.

Earlier this month, Erivo made headlines after reacting to a fan-modified version of the film’s official poster. Despite the intention to mirror the illustrated artwork of the unique and much-loved Broadway musical, Erivo was offended by the fan-made poster, which was edited to obscure the star’s eyes.

“This is the wildest and most offensive thing I have ever seen,” she wrote on her Instagram Stories on the time. “None of this is funny. None of this is sweet. This humiliates me. It humiliates us. The original poster is an ILLUSTRATION. I am a real person who chose to look straight into the camera barrel, at you, the viewer… because without words we communicate with our eyes.”

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The actress went on to explain that the video and its official artwork were intended to pay homage and never to recreate the unique poster.

“Editing my face and hiding my eyes is erasing me. And it’s just deeply painful,” she added.

This response was followed by a fan who reportedly created a poster that Erivo found offensive on Xexplaining the intentions behind the poster.

“This is and always has been an innocent fan edit intended to pay homage to the original Broadway poster and there is nothing wrong with that,” they wrote within the X thread, reposting the photo. “Although I initially removed it because I felt it was the right thing to do, fan posters have been around for as long as movies have existed. I never intended to cause any harm… I will also say that Cynthia is right to have her feelings on this matter, and I am also right to want to stand by my version of the poster because I truly meant no harm and I just created it to show love for the original. Both may be true.”

The first a part of the film adaptation of “Wicked” will hit theaters on November 22, and the sequel is scheduled for release next yr.

Jaden Smith is trying to be “normal,” but fans aren’t buying it.

In an October 19 post on X, the one son of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith tried to explain his behavior, which lots of his fans consider strange.

He wrote: “All the weird things you’ve ever seen me do was me thinking I was completely normal, so now sometimes I try to be weird on purpose, so you’ll think it’s on purpose, but at the end of the day I’ve been trying to be weird all this time.” match and I suppose not all the pieces went according to plan.

Fans reacted with more confusion. One person he said“My brother, what are you talking about,” and one other implicated Smith’s mother, writing“Y–you guys are weird, just like your moms. Keep moving.”

Third person he said“Oh, after watching this complicated interview, I see… it looks like you’re deliberately trying to act weird,” referring to the interview that he recently did so for Complex, where fans – and the interviewer himself – noticed that the 26-year-old seemed absent.

Most of the artist’s answers were quotes from the movie “Twilight,” and he rarely answered questions directly.

Finally, the interviewer asked Smith the one thing everyone wanted to find out about Smith’s tweet about “working on being weirder.” In an interview on October 18, he asked, “Why is it important to you to be weird?”

To which Smith replied, “Because I spent most of my life trying to be normal. It was really vital to me and for a very long time people thought I used to be normal. And this frightened me after a while. I began to feel like people didn’t really understand or see me, and I didn’t really try to show it to anyone.

He continued, “Sometimes it’s frustrating to watch people try to do ‘normal’ things that aren’t what they really want in their art and all. It’s very frustrating. And then you see people and whole generations getting caught up in it. So I actively try to be myself.”

Smith has also been in a difficult emotional situation since his relationship problems got here to light. The Pursuit of Happyness actor had been dating singer Sab Zada ​​since 2020, however it looks like there was trouble in paradise when Smith was spotted making out passionately with model Khleopatre in August.

After the photos were leaked, Zada ​​decided she wanted fans to take the high road and wrote, “This is a terrible and disappointing situation, but if everyone can try to be just a little nicer, then everyone will be real people with real feelings.”

But just eight days before her interview with Complex, Zada ​​revealed that she got right into a physical altercation with Smith’s latest boo and her friends.

On October 10, she posted a series of tweets on Twitter. She said, “Oh my God, she’s not the kind of girl who wants to attack me and fucking scratch my neck and then get mad because I blocked my ex and called her a homewrecker to my friends and then jumped on me. Lol” and added a photograph of scratches on her neck.

In one other tweet, she wrote: “Like these girls are physically attacking me because of the man who has been sending me flowers and apology letters to my house every month since this started. Hi??? We all need to focus on ourselves.”

It’s unclear what the present status of Zada ​​and Smith’s relationship is. However, it looks like they might still have been involved, at the least until Smith’s interview with Complex.

In the identical interview, after asking Smith why he wanted to be weird, the interviewer asked, “And being yourself is… weird,” to which Smith replied, “What a sick, masochistic lion.”

The same day the interview ended, Zada ​​tweeted Smith’s response, writing, “What a sick, masochistic lion.”

On his seventh studio album, Chromakopia, it’s a multi-hyphenate Tyler, the Creator opens the curtain. Across 14 tracks, born rapper Tyler Okonma explores the anxieties that include age and fame, interweaving them along with his own wisdom and a few that come through fastidiously placed vocal messages.

Tyler is a jack of all trades, excelling in a range of industries resembling music, fashion and tv. Just like his hero Pharrell Williams, Tyler is thought for his unconventional fashion sense because the founder of luxury brands Golf Wang and Golf le Fleur, in addition to for his television work on the adult Swim comedy series “Loiter Squad.” He cemented his role as a countercultural tastemaker and controversial rule breaker along with his first mixtape, 2009’s Bastard, and continues to push the boundaries of music – it’s no surprise that his latest release continues to interrupt barriers.

“Chromacopy” starts strong with “St. Chroma” — an introduction to the brand new masked figure on the album cover — with heavy military rhythms within the background of each Tyler and R&B singer Daniel Caesar vocal. At the start, a relaxing female voice is heard: “You are light. It’s not up to you. It’s in you.”

“I never had any doubts in myself,” he raps. “And if I ever tell you that, I’m (expletive) lying.”

As an entire, the album “Chromakopia” represents two-time Grammy Award winner when he turns thirty. In this latest era, he seeks understanding in all elements of his life, just as he seeks to grasp himself.

Not the whole lot is as clear as on “Like Him,” by which Tyler explores his similarities to his estranged father.

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“Give me love and tenderness / Attention, protection (Go),” he sings within the second verse. “How could I ever miss the chance (Go) / that I never had?”

On Sunday night at an album release party in Inglewood, California, Tyler outlined a mission statement of sorts for the album. “Oh, I’m not the guy I was when I was 20,” he said. “I even have gray hair on my chest. Life is life. I just wanted to write down concerning the things I take into consideration when I’m dolo, which is brief for the slang term “solo dolo,” which implies “alone.”

Rather a lot of thoughts: “Hey Jane” details the fear of pregnancy at the highest of a dream production, “Take Your Mask Off” tells the story of various characters afraid to live in the reality. It’s as much about Tyler, the Creator himself, because it is about them. “I hope you find yourself,” he says. “I hope you take off your mask.”

Lead single “Noid” is geared toward celebrities and tackles the paranoia and strange parasocial relationships that include fame in a claustrophobic, transgressive setting. The choir samples the 1977 song “Nizakupanga Ngozi” by the Zambian rock band Ngozi Family.

But the album isn’t only about deep introspection. Tyler is as brash as ever on “Thought I Was Dead” and “Rah Tah Tah,” each of which feature deep bass that reverberates through the listener’s bones.

His funny and outrageous personality can also be not hidden. This will be clearly heard in songs resembling the cheerful “Sticky”, which features Lil Wayne, GloRilla and “Sexy Red” and “Balloon” featuring Doechia.

The entire album, as indicated on the “Chromakopia” cover, was written, produced and arranged by Tyler Okonma. It’s an all-too-early mid-life memoir that many thirtysomethings will discover with: an album that encompasses the whole lot he’s achieved, fears and hopes for the longer term ahead.