There is no easy way to prepare for a project like Prima Facie. Cynthia Erivo, a two-time Oscar nominee and Tony winner, was coming off of the years-long experience of shooting and promoting back-to-back Wicked movies. She’d agreed to step into a role that would take a great deal more out of her, mentally and physically, with material that could be difficult to shake. Going into production, she relied on the tools honed over her decorated career so that she could show up ready to “go as far as I could and I needed to, to tell the story as fully as I possibly could.” She adds, “I flanked myself with a really good intimacy coordinator and…
