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Huffington Post // Technology

Cynthia Erivo Has God-Tier Response To Conservative Meltdown About Her Playing Jesus

Tuesday 3rd June 2025, 7:04AM


Cynthia Erivo at an Oscars after-party in MarchCynthia Erivo’s reaction to critics of her Jesus Christ Superstar casting is simply divine.Asked about the outcry over tapping a queer, Black woman to play the lead in the musical, she told Billboard: “Why not? You can’t please everyone.”“It is legitimately a three-day performance at the Hollywood Bowl where I get to sing my face off,” the Wicked star added.“So hopefully they will come and realise, ‘Oh, it’s a musical, the gayest place on Earth’.”The campy Andrew Lloyd Webber rock opera has been called blasphemous since it debuted as a concept album in 1970.Infused with modern references and a subversive, secular attitude, many religious groups condemned the show upon its release for depicting Jesus as a flawed hero, painting Judas too sympathetically and for implying a romance betw

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