Bridgerton's Jonathan Bailey Cast as Fiyero in Wicked Movies

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Good news! The Wicked movies person officially recovered their Fiyero successful Bridgerton starring antheral Jonathan Bailey. See however the actor, Ariana Grande and much reacted to the casting news.

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Dearest readers, the Wicked movies person officially recovered their Fiyero.

Director Jon M. Chu confirmed connected Sept. 21 that Bridgerton prima Jonathan Bailey volition play Fiyero successful the two-part adaptation of the beloved musical, joining the likes of Cynthia Erivo arsenic Elphaba and Ariana Grande arsenic Glinda.

"He's perfect, they're perfect. They'd beryllium cleanable together. Born to beryllium forever…" Chu tweeted astir the casting news, mimicking lyrics from the opus "Dancing Through Life."

Bailey—who is champion known for his relation arsenic Anthony Bridgerton connected Netflix's Bridgerton—subtly celebrated booking the relation connected Instagram, captioning a post connected Sept. 21, "Dancing through," implicit with a fitting greenish bosom emoji.

In lawsuit you're unfamiliar with the award-winning musical, Wicked follows the relationship of the Wicked Witch of the West (Elphaba) and Glinda the Good Witch earlier the events of The Wizard of Oz. 

Part of that backstory includes a years-long emotion triangle betwixt the women and Fiyero, a prince and chap pupil astatine their schoolhouse Shiz University.

In summation to being a star of the tiny screen, Bailey also has several theatre credits to his name. He adjacent took location an Olivier Award (the U.K.'s equivalent to the Tony Awards) for his relation arsenic Jamie successful the 2018 West End Revival of Company.

Grande shared her love for the actor on her Instagram story, writing, "OH WHAT A CELEBRATION WE'LL HAVE TODAY. We are truthful excited for you to articulation america implicit present successful Oz @jbayleaf!!!!!!" 

Erivo besides posted a photo featuring herself, Grande and Bailey, captioned with respective Wicked-related emojis.

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Back successful February, Erivo gave E! News an exclusive update connected the films, which are presently successful production, astatine the 2022 SAG Awards.

"Ariana and I person been gathering and chatting and talking and gathering our ain relationship," she said on the reddish carpet. "Because we cognize that it's a sisterhood. We some privation to beryllium acceptable and prepared to beryllium determination for 1 another."

Wicked's large surface adaptation volition beryllium divided into two films, with the archetypal acceptable to beryllium released successful December 2024, followed by the 2nd successful 2025.

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