Cynthia Erivo doesn’t like questions on her enterprise within the lavatory.
The “Wicked” star, 37, appeared on “Armchair Expert” on Monday and clapped again at host Dax Shepard for asking how she wipes her butt together with her lengthy talon nails.
Shepard, 49, famous that the query was “inappropriate” however he requested it anyway — and Erivo knew it was coming.
“No one’s afraid to ask it. Everybody asks that question,” she stated.
“My answer is that nobody uses just their fingers to wipe their backside,” the Tony Award winner defined. “You use tissue, correct? And you wipe!”
Shepard then requested her, “Does the tissue go on the tip of the fingernails, or do you try to get the tissue?”
“Pads of the fingers,” Erivo answered.
“Great, great, great, now we’re getting somewhere,” Shepard stated. “Then you’re just feeling the little tickle of the nails on the crack of your butt sometimes?”
Erivo clarified that she doesn’t have that drawback due to the tissue. Shepard, lastly happy together with her reply, joked that he’d “make a mitten” with the tissue paper to wipe his personal butt.
Kristen Bell’s hubby then requested Erivo if she’s “offended” by what he requested.
“I get it. I’m annoyed by it. I’m, like, ‘Come on, guys,” she stated. “But I get it, but it’s also, like, ‘I’m a functioning adult, and I’ve never walked around smelling like, you know…’ ”
“No one thinks that,” Shepard famous. “In truth, everybody thinks you odor so good. It begs the query, ‘How are you wiping your tush?’ “
To additional defend herself, Erivo famous that “there are people who do not have nails who need to check how they’re wiping.”
The “Harriet” star reiterated that her lengthy nails have been a scorching matter with followers.
“People are bold. People are always like, ‘How do you get anything done with those nails?’” she stated. “And I’m like, ‘I mean, I’m here!’ I’m dressed.”
Erivo has been exhibiting off her talon nails on the press tour for “Wicked.” She’s channeled her character Elphaba on the premieres in Australia, Los Angeles, Mexico, New York Metropolis and London forward of the movie’s launch this weekend.
Directed by Jon M. Chu, “Wicked” is predicated on the beloved Broadway manufacturing and stars Erivo as Elphaba and Ariana Grande as Glinda the Good Witch. The solid additionally contains Jeff Goldblum, Jonathan Bailey, Michelle Yeoh and Ethan Slater.
Throughout a latest look on “Late Night with Seth Meyers,” Erivo stated it took 4 hours day-after-day to show inexperienced for the film.
“It was part of the experience for me. I asked for it,” she stated.
Erivo additionally shared that she’ll “always be connected” to her “Wicked” character.
“I don’t know if I can leave Elphaba behind completely,” she stated. “She’s got a little bit of part of my heart. We spent so long with her that it’s tough to let her go completely.”
