Friday, December 05, 2025
Cynthia Erivo explains Wicked: For Good's sex cardigan
www.jezebel.com: Love it or hate it, there’s one moment in Wicked: For Good that has left people of all ages confused. No, not when Madame Morrible somehow inflates Glinda’s bubble from the outside despite explaining the rules of how the bubble worked just 90 seconds prior
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Before I even read this article, this has been a huge topic that has been talked about all over social media and I find it very intriguing and interesting to find what other people think about the not so cute cardigan. As a director and designer for theater, I saw this cardigan as a statement for how Elphaba isn’t perfect. In the movie Glinda is portrayed as perfect and Elphaba as a disaster. So it makes sense to me that when Fiyero chooses Elphaba she isn’t in a perfect outfit cause that is what Fiyero was running from, he wanted something real and true not something perfect and fake for show. This idea perfectly aligns with Cynthia Erivo’s point of view discussing how this cardigan was in way her armor and that in this scene it was the her way of showing her as more humane and more open and comfortable with Fiyero and how he was one of the only person who could help remove that armor to get to the real human behind the mask.
II feel like the sex cardigan is perfect, especially for Fiyero and Elphaba's dynamic. The thing he loves about her is her authenticity and that she won't diminish herself for others. I guess it makes sense that it would extend to her intimate wear, opting for comfort over overt sex appeal and Fiyero still being 100% into it is a representation of how deeply he loves and accepts her. Or I am reading too far into this. It would be very funny to see Victoria's Secret drop a few knitwear pieces in the wake of this. We must also keep in mind that this is a kids movie and Elphaba can't exactly conjure a lace set without risking that PG rating. I honestly think that sexy cardigan might be able to tie into the Y2K revival thats been going on these past few years. I personally think it works well.
This is hilarious to me. Like genuinely, who cares?? Before reading this article I had heard nothing of this cardigan or even of the moment in the movie… maybe I'm out of touch. But after googling this infamous ‘sex cardigan’ and taking a look at it myself, I couldn't help but laugh because it does feel like an awkward costume choice to be paired with lingerie. Plot wise and character wise it makes sense i guess, but the internet is such a funny place. I don't think there's anything wrong with the cardigan per se, but I just don't understand why they had to put her in lingerie like that because it is a children's movie, so it implies that the cardigan is this character's “sex having cardigan” of sorts. The internet's critiques just reflect how people are trolling to troll and making any last wicked memes they can so it can stay relevant.
I think my opinion on this is really important, especially as someone who has not seen (or intends to see) either Wicked movie, and even though I know the general plot of Wicked because I exist in the theater world, I’ve never seen the show and don’t know the exact full story of the plot, subplots, and the show’s characters. First, I don’t know who Madame Morrible is or what Glinda’s bubble is, but it definitely seems confusing that the movie would explain some sort of worldbuilding rule, and then immediately destroy it. I’m also confused about why there is a sex scene in this (implied or not), because I was under the impression this was a PG movie and a family-friendly musical. I also don’t understand why she would take off her armor and stuff and then put more clothes back on? That seems counterintuitive. Is the entire concept that the article is dancing around just that in the Wicked-verse, Elphaba’s version of lingerie is chunky knit sweaters?
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