“You all look really good wet!” said Charlize Theron as she took to the stage at the New York City leg of the Global Citizen festival and gazed out on to a drenched crowd flaunting an array of colorful ponchos. “Thanks for coming out in the rain, I know it’s hard but we love seeing your beautiful faces out there.”
For a concert meant to raise awareness of climate change (among the litany of other ills facing Mother Earth and its people), the unforgiving torrential rain that took hold of Central Park throughout the length of the five-hour concert, which featured the likes of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Lauryn Hill and BTS member Jungkook, almost seemed appropriate, if it weren’t so uncomfortable.
