Cynthia Erivo, the Tony Award-winning actress, is having quite the moment, receiving significant praise as the rollout of Wicked continues, and she perhaps has received the greatest compliments and support from her long-rumored partner,

“But we were never going for a witchy look,” she added about the making of Erivo’s character. “We were making it very real, very timeless and very connected to everybody. We weren’t going for the prosthetic fantasy version at all. Jon [M. Chu] always wanted everything real.”