The sweater that modified Oz, for good.
The web goes wild over Elphaba’s (Cynthia Erivo) “intercourse cardigan” that she wears throughout an intimate scene with Fiyero (Jonathan Bailey) in “Depraved: For Good.”
After fleeing Emerald Metropolis with Fiyero on the day of his marriage ceremony to Glinda (Ariana Grande), Elphaba takes him to her secret tree home, the place they share their true emotions to one another in a duet to “As Lengthy as You’re Mine.”
Elphaba, smitten for Fiyero, takes off her typical black apparel and slips into attractive black lingerie — earlier than she places on an infinite grey knit cardigan.
The style piece has gone viral on the web, with followers sharing their epic reactions to Elphaba’s surprising outfit selection.
Sharing a photograph of the sweater on Anne Hathaway’s character in “The Satan Wears Prada,” one fan wrote, “are you sporting the—,’” including, “Elphaba’s intercourse cardigan? Sure, I’m.”
“Y’all are laughing at Elphaba’s ‘intercourse cardigan’ as if Anthropologie isn’t at the moment planning to promote that factor for $140 and other people will purchase it. #WickedForGood,” one other fan stated on X.
Another person tweeted, “Elphaba was taking no probabilities when Fiyero bought in that treehouse. Broke out the great lingerie and her intercourse cardigan.”
“Those that are hating on elphaba’s cardigan simply don’t know the powers a very comfortable cardigan can maintain over a lady,” a distinct “Depraved” fan wrote.
“Popping out as somebody who likes the elphaba intercourse sweater,” one other twitter consumer confessed.
Erivo herself reacted to the fandom’s infatuation with the attractive sweater in a latest interview with Bustle.
“I am plugged in slightly bit. I really like that everybody is so invested within the little particulars,” stated Erivo, 38. “Particularly in the event that they’re invested within the outfit, I’m glad, as a result of that was a type of issues that I wished for her. I used to be like, if she’s in her dwelling the place she lives, why would she nonetheless be in her struggle outfit? Why wouldn’t she be in one thing snug, the factor that makes her probably the most susceptible?”
“I wished a second of actual softness for her,” the Oscar nominee continued, “so it was one thing that I had talked to [costume designer] Paul [Tazewell] about, to search out one thing that made her actually womanly, like that she was there in her area as snug as may very well be. So I’m glad persons are clocking all these little particulars.”
Whereas Elphaba’s cardigan turned up the warmth within the “As Lengthy as You’re Mine” scene, director Jon M. Chu revealed he really made the second much less sexy.
“I simply felt like, ‘Is that this film the kind of film the place you simply sit and stare at one another and sing?’ I used to be like, ‘There’s nothing taking place,’” Chu, 46, instructed Leisure Weekly. “And fervour can solely occur…. They didn’t have time to…. We want a scene the place they exit on a date or one thing. How do they know one another?”
The filmmaker additionally acknowledged that Erivo introduced “dignity” to Elphaba within the steamy scene.
“She’s like, ‘I might have a house, I might make it scent good. I might put my hair up,’” he added. “She’s not only a caricature that we’re making enjoyable of in studying the backstory. It’s not fan fiction; it is a actual character to her.”
“Depraved: For Good” is in theaters now.
