“I have my good witch fairy moment and now we’re heading to Elphaba.
And I kind of love the two-four of it,” Erivo tells EW.
“The thing is I didn’t realize it until I was like, ‘Oh!
Cynthia Erivo as the Blue Fairy brings a wooden puppet to life in Disney’s new ‘Pinocchio’.Disney
I have my good witch fairy moment and now we’re heading to Elphaba.’
And I kind of love the two-four of it,” she tells EW.
“This is the good and what wethoughtwas evil.
But I love that they’re so different.
They’re very, very different characters, but they both have pragmatism in them.”
“And I asked him what he wanted her to look like.
He was like, ‘Well…you!’
At the time I had bleach-blonde hair but still very short.
I had my nails.
They really injected this character with parts of me that already exist, which I really appreciate.”
I approached it, first, as purely as I possibly could.
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Erivo says that moment was full of joy.
“Then I just started singing it and he started recording it.
I didn’t realize what a big fan of the show he was,” she says.
“It was just kismet.”
Though, Erivo lovesBarbra Streisand.
“But no one’s asked me to do [Funny Girl].
“But it’s one of those pieces that I’ve always been a fan of.
I’ve watched that movie enough times at this point to know it.”
Maybe even at the Hollywood Bowl, to which she says she will return at some point.
“That can be lovely,” she remarks.
“I like that idea a lot.”
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