{"id":433554,"date":"2025-12-08T15:51:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T15:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/433554\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T15:51:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T15:51:12","slug":"cynthia-erivo-called-tough-in-uncomfortable-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/433554\/","title":{"rendered":"Cynthia Erivo Called Tough In Uncomfortable Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAs a black woman, this kind of rhetoric is so exhausting. Stop trying to masculinize us unless we are specifically looking for it! Nobody would ask this question to her co-star. Go look at the recent drawings and memes coming out of this situation. She\u2019s getting flak and racist responses for helping defend her costar. It\u2019s disgusting,\u201d one comment <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/popculturechat\/comments\/1pgg0j4\/interviewer_tries_to_provoke_a_reaction_from\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">read<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe handled this wonderfully but this is super painful. She is absolutely strong but tough feels incorrect and to be frank I don\u2019t see \u2018tough\u2019 as I\u2019ve followed her career. Nor does she bring tough to Elphaba. As a BW our normal vibes are always misinterpreted as tough, aggressive, angry, I\u2019m so frustrated for her throughout this press run,\u201d someone else <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/popculturechat\/comments\/1pgg0j4\/interviewer_tries_to_provoke_a_reaction_from\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHer publicist\u2019s face says it all,\u201d one <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/__messo__\/status\/1997142261398901161\" target=\"_blank\">viral post<\/a> on X read, while another popular tweet <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Ritawhoras\/status\/1997146619628736803\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a>, \u201cWhat the fuck bro? I feel so fucking bad for her.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cAs a black woman, this kind of rhetoric is so exhausting. Stop trying to masculinize us unless we&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":433555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[37419,37420,171,5603,37656,67,132,68,45534],"class_list":{"0":"post-433554","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-black-content","9":"tag-dib-celebs","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-lgbtq","12":"tag-timely","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-womens-content"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115684749263856627","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}