Why Cynthia Erivo Wears Prosthetic Ears In Depraved

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 few 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 crucial to change her look.

Cynthia says that the shade of inexperienced make-up utilized to her pores and skin was actually known 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 little thing was explicit, proper all the way down to my eyebrows,” Cynthia added, stating that her make-up artist additionally “created a vacuum kind so the freckles would keep in the identical place every single day.”

Most surprisingly, Cynthia revealed that she additionally needed to have ear prosthetics created for her to completely develop into Elphaba — and the rationale why has to do with Cynthia herself and never the character she performed.

“I’ve 1,000,000 piercings, so that they introduced in a prosthetic artist, who created principally a shell for my ears,” she mentioned. “These aren’t my ears!”

Only for comparability’s sake: Here is Cynthia on the pink carpet, along with her actual ears…

And here is a very good have a look at the prosthetic ears she wore on set. (That is Depraved director Jon M. Chu speaking along with her whereas Ariana Grande seems to be on within the background.)