Cynthia asked the director, Jon M. Chu, if they could “reimagine” Elphaba’s traditionally long, wavy hair as micro braids in ...

British actress Cynthia Erivo was incredibly intentional when she transformed the look of Elphaba, the character she plays in ...

Cynthia Erivo explains why she chose for her "Wicked" character to have micro-braids, using the hairstyle to honor Black ...

Cynthia Erivo had one request when it came to Elphaba’s hair. Erivo, 37, opened up about the micro braids she donned while ...

Alongside popstar Ariana Grande - who plays Glinda the 'Good Witch', the pair portray Elphaba and Glinda's relationship as ...

The Harriet star is only the second Black woman to portray the Wicked Witch of the West from the Wizard of Oz universe, ...

When Wicked star Cynthia Erivo set about bringing the stage character of Elphaba Thropp, a.k.a. the future Wicked Witch of ...

In a new interview with Variety, Cynthia Erivo shared how Elphaba in the Wicked film came to have the distinctive and ...

How and why did the kind-hearted, smart and green Elphaba Thropp become such a nasty, powerful, dare we say wicked witch of ...

Cynthia Erivo had one request when it came to Elphaba’s hair. Erivo, 37, opened up about the micro braids she donned while playing Elphaba in Wicked, while chatting with Variety on Tuesday ...

She asked if the team could reimagine Elphaba's hair as micro braids instead, as a nod to Black women. "I knew you’d still have the movement, and you could still have the length, but there was a ...

“I asked if we could reimagine that hair as micro braids because I knew you’d still have the movement, and you could still have the length, but there was a texture that was slightly different ...