{"id":106280,"date":"2026-02-22T11:26:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T11:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/22\/how-cynthia-erivo-more-black-actresses-broke-barriers-in-hollywood\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T11:26:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T11:26:17","slug":"how-cynthia-erivo-more-black-actresses-broke-barriers-in-hollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/22\/how-cynthia-erivo-more-black-actresses-broke-barriers-in-hollywood\/","title":{"rendered":"How Cynthia Erivo &amp; More Black Actresses Broke Barriers in Hollywood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2025121\/rs_1200x1200-250221112750-cynthiazendayabrandythumb.png?fit=around|660:660\" height=\"660\" width=\"660\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Cynthia Erivo, Zendaya, Brandy\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\" \/>Cynthia Erivo defied more than gravity when she became Elphaba Thropp.\u00a0<br \/>\nDespite the character being green, the Wicked star initially couldn&#x27;t imagine taking on the role in the two-part film&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1413777\/how-cynthia-erivo-zendaya-brandy-and-more-black-actresses-broke-barriers-with-their-standout-roles?cmpid=rss-syndicate-genericrss-us-top_stories\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cynthia Erivo defied more than gravity when she became Elphaba Thropp.\u00a0 Despite the character being green, the Wicked star initially couldn&#x27;t imagine taking on the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":106281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[150,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity","category-spotlight"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}