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Drag Race queens turn Cynthia Erivo's Wicked pic into hilarious meme
We, as gay people, get to choose our sense of humor.Actress, singer, and soon-to-be EGOT winner Cynthia Erivo shared a gorgeous photo of herself one day prior to the final trailer of Wicked: For Good being released across social media.While there isn't anything to joke about in the actual photo Erivo just looks focused and getting ready to embody the character of Elphaba while shooting the two Wicked movies fans and queens of RuPaul's Drag Race couldn't help but notice that this entire shot looked pretty familiar...A queer artist wearing what is clearly a costume, while beat-to-the-gods in terms of makeup, backstage from the actual set, facing herself in a mirror but not necessarily caring about her hands not showing the same green makeup as her face, and all while listening to a song through a wired earbud attached to an iPod/iPhone that she has on hand looking a bit tense, or defeated, or concentrated, which suggests that she's preparing for a very important moment of her journey in this production.And just like that, it clicked. In this behind-the-scenes photo, Cynthia Erivo looks like a Drag Race queen experiencing a dosage of Untucked panic after hearing the judges' critiques and suspecting that she might have to lip sync for her life in order to stay on the show and move on to the next episode.Seddera Side (@) X fan-page @sedderaside best known for hot takes and viral memes related to RuPaul's Drag Race was one of the first people to point out the many similarities between this photo of Cynthia Erivo and a bottom-two Drag Race queen in Untucked preparing to lip sync for her life: Listening to the lip sync song one last time, making sure that nothing about the makeup or the outfit looks out of place, and concentrating herself to deliver a great performance on the main stage."This is so 'Drag Race girl in Untucked nervous about possibly lip syncing' core," Seddera Side wrote, and that's all it took for a hilarious new meme crossing over the Wicked universe and the RuPaul's Drag Race queendom to be born.Thank Oz!Morphine Love Dion (@) Morphine Love Dion referenced her lip sync assassination of Dawn to "Body" by Megan Thee Stallion on Drag Race season 16. The Miami lip sync diva wrote:"Me pretending to learn 'Body' fully knowing I already knew the choreo and have performed it 30 times before."Lana Ja'Rae (@) Drag Race season 17 star Lana Ja'Rae who tried a lot of things for the first time on the show and unfortunately had to lip sync for her life several times wrote:"Me every week in Untucked."Plane Jane (@) Plane Jane's version of this crossover meme was very on-brand, obviously! The Drag Race season 16 finalist brought up the lip sync for the win of "Made You Look" by Meghan Trainor, which was between Sapphira Cristl and Morphine Love Dion that week."Me learning 'I Made You Look' thinking I'm about to send Dawn or Q to the house only for it to be a top 2 lip sync with Morphine Love Dion not knowing the words."Marina Summers (@) The Filipina superstar Marina Summers also entered the chat, recalling her fantastic lip sync to "Release Me" by Agnes against Hannah Conda in season 2, episode 6 of RuPaul's Drag Race UK vs. the World."Me orchestrating my 'Release Me' masterpiece."Mhi'ya Iman Le'Paige (@) Remember when Mhi'ya Iman Le'Paige and Plasma lip synced for their lives to Lady Gaga's "Bloody Mary (Wednesday Dance TikTok Version)" remix? We sure do, and so does Mhi'ya, who threw some hilarious shade at Plasma not only for being nervous about the lip sync, but also for infamously looking rather goth during that episode."This was Plasma before our lip sync to 'Bloody Mary.'"Kyran Thrax (@) Kyran Thrax, the winner of RuPaul's Drag Race UK season 6, also joined this meme era recalling the comedy roast episode of her season. In the Untucked portion of the episode, Kyran destroyed her very expensive outfit in order to be prepared to lip sync."Me in the roast episode Untucked literally shredding up my 2,000 outfit with scissors and putting a wig reveal on for literally no reason."Spoiler alert: That week's lip sync for your live was between Lill and Rileasa Slaves to "Crazy What Love Can Do" by David Guetta, Becky Hill, and Ella Henderson. In turn, Kyran never had to lip sync for her life the entire season.Flor (@) RuPaul's Drag Race Down Under season 3 star Flor made it all the way to top 3 in the competition. While she didn't end up snatching the crown, she rightfully reminded fans of her lip sync to Kylie Minogue's "Secrets," in which she sent Rita Menu packing."Kylie Minogue Secrets," Flor wrote. Enough said, innit?Taiga Brava (@) Taiga Brava won Queen of the Universe season 2 and went on to host Drag Race Mxico season 2 with Lolita Banana. So even though she couldn't relate to the experience of having to lip sync for her life, she did re-post Erivo's photo and captioned it with the iconic command from the judges in the Mexican series:"The time has come to do an I-CO-NIC lip sync of 'No Good Deed' from Wicked."
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