Cynthia Erivo is the icon of the year and cover star of the magazine

Newly released magazine debuted there are 30^th annual Out100 list, with Cynthia Erivo as cover star and icon of the year.

Behind the scenes of her cover shoot, Cynthia shared, “I’m so proud to be on the cover of the Out100 list,” adding that she’s in a place where she feels “super proud to be who I am, proud to be out there.” ”. “It’s a full circle moment for me.”

She insisted: “No dream is too big, no thought is too small. Everything that makes you who you are will make your art, or whatever you want to do, special.”

It’s a big year for Erivo, who plays Elphaba in the film adaptation of “Wicked.”

Cynthia spoke in the topic about how she could identify with the character.

“It’s hard to talk about Elphaba as someone else without having it intrinsically tied to being a woman walking the world as a queer Black woman,” she said. “I immediately understood what it meant for people to look at you and see you as not beautiful, not acceptable, none of those things because I walked through the world like that. And having a way of not necessarily being okay with it, but being okay enough with yourself that when other people put that on you, you can still get through it.”

He added that the film is about “the acceptance of people who are different, whether it is because of their way of life, their skin color or the power that a person has who may be different from yours.”

In the behind-the-scenes video, Cynthia also talked about Elphaba’s relationship with Glinda in the film.

Erivo said: “I hope that the story of ‘Wicked’ and the unlikely friendship that comes together within it is that these two beautiful women are so far from each other, so different, but somehow they manage to see the similarities and similarities between them. . each other…and they find common ground and also just accept the differences that they have.”

She continued, “So if you connect, if you find a way to find common ground, you will probably find someone who is there to support you too and that difference is the spice of life to me.”

Check out more behind-the-scenes images from the shoot below!