The Wicked publicity tour has just kept giving. Giving weirdness that is. We already talked about how we had started noticing that something… strange was going on with the publicity. Performative, theater-kids-gone-wild emoting. All sorts of weird body language and messaging. Inappropriate contact and lots and lots of tears. We weren’t alone in noticing. There were other articles, memes, and videos.
Then there was that weight loss. Nobody likes to overtly body shame, as all sorts of unpleasant mental conditions can be attached, but if somebody had said that a contagious wasting disease had swept through the cast, we wouldn’t have been surprised. It was as if they were being drained.
There was yet more junket strangeness when, appearing to be on the brink of some performative over caring again, a helicopter triggered the two leads. Cue more touching and emoting.
A report started to spread online that the two stars had confirmed that they were in a “non-demi-curious semi-binary relationship”. Such was its believability that nobody thought to actually check. It turned out to be a headline from a spoof website that had grown out of control.
It’s almost a shame that there isn’t a third movie to be made here, as who knows the levels of strangeness that could be achieved if this cast is held together a moment longer and then pushed out in front of cameras on another junket. The possibilities are mind-boggling.
