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 a number of the movie’s styling secrets and techniques.
In a latest interview with Elle, the actor behind Elphaba revealed how lengthy it took for her to make her full transformation in costume — and the stunning physique mods that had been mandatory 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 normally took a long-ass time to cowl her pores and skin with it.
“Relying on how a lot inexperienced we had been doing — head, chest, palms, full physique — it may take as much as 4 hours,” she claimed.
“Every part was explicit, proper all the way down to my eyebrows,” Cynthia added, stating that her make-up artist additionally “created a vacuum type so the freckles would keep in the identical place on daily basis.”
Most surprisingly, Cynthia revealed that she additionally needed to have ear prosthetics created for her to totally change into Elphaba — and the rationale why has to do with Cynthia herself and never the character she performed.
“I’ve one million piercings, in order that they introduced in a prosthetic artist, who created mainly a shell for my ears,” she mentioned. “These aren’t my ears!”
Only for comparability’s sake: This is Cynthia on the pink carpet, together with her actual ears…
And this is a very good have a look at the prosthetic ears she wore on set. (That is Depraved director Jon M. Chu speaking together with her whereas Ariana Grande seems on within the background.)
The magic of the films, everybody! Learn the whole interview right here, and should you’ve obtained some wonderful cinematic transformations of your individual to share, drop ’em within the feedback.