CYNTHIA SETS HER SIGHTS ON THE PROMS
CYNTHIA ERIVO was assigned her own reserved table at the Governors Ball that followed the Academy Awards ceremony where, a few hours earlier, she’d stopped the show with her performance of the Oscarnominated song Stand Up, from the film Harriet.
Cynthia sat with her mother Edith and sister Stephanie, who had been her dates for the night. Orbiting her were her agents, managers, various studio executives and other stars.
Erivo was nominated for two awards but came away empty-handed. Yet she radiated the confident aura of a winner.
She told me about a new film she will shoot called Carrier. She said: ‘It’s based on a podcast I did. For the film, I’ll play a truck driver and it just so happens that she’s carrying something in the back of her truck. Can’t tell you what it is, because it’s a thriller.’
She’s also in discussions about filming a second season of the HBO drama The Outsider in which she plays Stephen King’s creation Holly Gibney, a private detective with expertise in dealing with the paranormal.
Plus there are numerous other projects in the pipeline for her.
Last month she did three concerts — in front of 15,000 people — in Tokyo. Now she has her eye on playing the Royal Albert Hall. ‘I’d love to be invited to sing at the Proms, or to do something there,’ she told me.
Before she can do any of those things, though, she has to finish filming Genius: a television show in which she portrays Aretha Franklin.