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Kristin Chenoweth Talks Ariana Grande's Wicked Casting
For the clip being, Ariana Grande just wants to focus connected her Wicked movies.
And she doesn't request immoderate negativity arsenic she heads down this yellowish ceramic road. The two-time Grammy victor precocious took to TikTok to code a remark she received that asked, "Why aren't you a vocalist anymore?!?!?"
Well, Ariana unopen this thought down by belting retired a beauteous rendition of "Over the Rainbow."
"Wanted to sing you a small thing but don't privation to sing thing that is not 'Ozian' astatine the infinitesimal :)," she captioned the Jan. 20 video. "Keeping to my small bubble for now…done with tons of love."
As Ariana explained, she "is virtually connected acceptable filming 2 philharmonic movies each time each day," with manager Jon M. Chu announcing successful April that his Wicked task volition dwell of not 1 but 2 movies. In fact, Ariana—who's been spotted connected the Wicked set implicit the past fewer months—noted she made the video "mid getting ready." Although, she wore a pinkish sweater with a hood that covered up her blonde tresses arsenic she was "hiding Galinda's hair."
Ariana isn't the lone prima successful the movies. Cynthia Erivo is playing Elphaba and Jonathan Bailey is portraying Fiyero. E! News tin besides corroborate that Michelle Yeoh is taking connected the relation of Madame Morrible and Jeff Goldblum has been formed arsenic the Wizard. In addition, Variety reported that Ethan Slater volition play Boq.
As Ariana noted successful a May 2022 YouTube video, she'd "started proceeding murmurs astir a Wicked audition coming soon" and "went into afloat mentation mode" portion she was filming The Voice in 2021.
"So, I was shooting and past doing lessons each time due to the fact that I conscionable wanted to beryllium prepared for erstwhile the telephone came," she shared. "I had nary thought erstwhile it was coming, but I was conscionable like, ‘I privation to beryllium acceptable to spell in.' I know that I cognize the worldly similar the backmost of my hand, but I inactive person truthful overmuch to larn and I privation to beryllium successful premier condition, truthful I went beauteous hard getting ready."
And playing Glinda has been her longtime dream.
"And now, convey God, convey goodness literally, the astir unthinkable acquisition of my full beingness is this relation that I've adored since I [was] 10 years aged and that is going to person each portion of me," Ariana continued. "Every minute, each ounce of my heart, my time, my soul, my everything that I tin springiness it."
While she noted successful the YouTube video that she hasn't been moving connected different album, it looks similar she is acceptable to defy gravity with this caller relation and that she has the enactment of Kristin Chenoweth, who played Glinda successful the archetypal Broadway production.
"She's going to enactment her ain stamp connected it," she told Andy Cohen during the Jan. 16 episode of Watch What Happens Live. "I'm truthful arrogant of her. I wanted her to bash her Glinda. And that's what she's doing. I'm arrogant of her."
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