Together, Cynthia Erivo and Lena Waithe are unlimited. The Wicked actress has received sweet support from her longtime partner throughout the film’s multiple premieres, including her attendance at the Los Angeles and London events, but Lena’s backing has extended to social media, too. As the film hit theaters Nov.
22, Lena—whose relationship with the Tony Award winner went public in June 2022—shared videos and photos from other accounts to her Instagram Story praising both the movie’s production team and Cynthia’s performance, including one review calling Wicked “film-making that is firing on all cylinders.” Lena, 40, also shared a post from Cynthia, 37, detailing her magical experience filming the adaptation of the Broadway show. “This journey has been long, and paved with bright, yellow brick,” Cynthia wrote on the Nov.
21 Instagram post alongside behind-the-scenes pictures. “We have laughed and cried, held hands and walked side by side, our lives intertwined, and because of that, we were irrevocably changed for good.” Proving her support for Cynthia extends beyond Wicked , Lena also shared a heartwarming video from a side stage view of her partner performing a Christmas song at an event while Lena cheered her on.
Though the pair has kept their relationship mostly out of the spotlight, Lena—who wed longtime partner Alana Mayo in 2019, but separated a few months later—previously shared that meeting Cynthia in 2018 was a very memorable moment. “T.