As a long time Evil As a fan, Ariana Grande knew she had some big shoes to fill as Galinda Upland.
While discussing the audition process for John M. Cho’s adaptation of the Broadway musical, the two-time Grammy winner talked about the pressure to get the character right and the “challenge” of stepping out of her pop star box.
“That’s something I loved so much about the audition punk“, Grande explained on Emotional men Podcast. “It has to be earned. Anything on this scale, being part of anything, is not given just because they know one thing. So, it’s fun to take on the challenge of reframing people’s perceptions and doing the work to make your way back into other spaces.
Having been involved in musical theater since she was eight years old, and always a fan of the Tony Award-winning musical, Grande knew that fans would have high expectations of her in this role.
She explained: “I felt a little bit of initial nervousness or some sort of preconceived notions about what I might or might not be able to do, or why I might be wrong or whatever,” she explained, noting that the fans didn’t watch the rehearsal. I took the pre-test.
Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo at Wicked.
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Grande said of her critics: “If I walked out of the movie ‘Side to Side,’ I might have said the same thing.” “I might have said: Why f-? Kill me. I waited 20 years for this. Kill me.’ I would say that – as an outsider fan who only knows ‘7 Rings,’ maybe – I would say, ‘Well, that’s Thor -‘ so, you know, I got it.”
Based on the hit Broadway musical. Wicked Follows Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo) and Glinda (Grande) as they first meet at Shiz University and share a life-changing encounter with the Wizard of Oz (Jeff Goldblum).
Chu is set to direct Global Adaptation again in 2021. The first Evil The installment will premiere on November 22, 2024, followed by Part 2 on November 21, 2025.
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