What are your thoughts on Cynthia Erico’s and Ariana Grande’s behaviour?

They both look manifestly ill. This isn’t about “judging other women for their choices” it is stating fact and it’s a horrendous example to put in front of their female target audience

whether all the gushing is genuine or a role they’ve decided to play to kill the inevitable stoking of rivalry between 2 female leads, I have no idea. It is odd. You can be positive about your co star without clinging to them.

I think that Cynthia Erivo comes across as quite hippy dippy intense and has attached to Ariana Grande for some reason - romantic attraction, caregiving impulse or cynical career building - in a way that is beyond normal friendship. Ariana seems nonplussed by some of her behaviour but she's going along with it, I would guess because she's a weaker personality being dominated by a stronger one. The intense weight loss is scary, and Michelle Yeoh has also lost a lot of weight during filming. There is some competitive skinniness going on and some weird codependent folie a deux stuff. Now the filming and promotion is nearly over I expect they will stop spending so much time together and it will get less intense.

Arianna Grande is clearly very unwell and under weight she should be getting medical help not going on press tours

YABU, there is already a current long thread about this, do we really need another one criticising women.

I find it all quite odd and slightly uncomfortable as they seem quite reliant on each other in a way I don’t think it’s entirely ‘normal’ for two adults to be. My DDs, who are the films target market, find it uncomfortable to watch and one of them described their weight as ‘anorexic’ which rings true as someone who has battled a food disorder.

I haven’t watched the video you linked. But I think whatever is going on, it’s very sad and very worrying.

It may, of course, be nothing and all for the cameras but the way they act together combined with their weight and overall demeanour is not normal for two adults and strays into the territory of them being bad role models.