The star of new revival of “Jesus Christ, Superstar” is a bald-headed, black queer woman.
Cynthia Erivo has been cast to play Jesus Christ at the Hollywood Bowl’s production of the infamous Andrew Lloyd Webber musical.
Erivo is an outspoken member of the LGBT community.
“As I stand here in front of you: Black, bald-headed, pierced, and queer, I can say I know a thing or two about being the other,” she said last year at a gala for the Los Angeles LGBT Center.
Erivo came out as bisexual in the pages of British Vogue in 2022.
“I lived in deep admiration of anyone who could fully embody their true authentic self, wear their queerness like a feather boa and proudly say this is a beautiful part of who I am,” she said. “I used to say that it felt like I was looking at my own community from inside a glass box. There you all were — vibrant, and beautiful and falling in love and I had my nose pressed up against the glass looking out at all of you separate and apart. It took time for me to outgrow my box.”
The fact is that her casting was meant to mock and demean people of faith.
“With all due respect, and humbly submitted, Cynthia Erivo is too BALD, BROWN, and BI to play Jesus. Casting a woman as Jesus Christ is an intentional form of blasphemy that Hollywood would be fuming over if done to certain other religions,” Pastor John Amanchukwu wrote on X.
There’s no word on when Hollywood will debut a musical about the Prophet Muhammad. Although, if they did, it would be unlikely Muhammad would be portrayed by a bald-headed queer woman.
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