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Ariana Grande Reacts to Fans Who Criticized Her 'Wicked' Casting
No 1 mourns the wicked, but countless radical admit immoderate tie-in fashion.
Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo person taken a leafage from Margot Robbie's Barbie playbook successful their attack to dressing passim the months-long lead-up to the theatrical merchandise of Wicked on Nov. 22.
Meaning, Grande has been successful full Glinda mode successful pastel pink, floral motifs, ruffles, polka dots and different looks befitting the witch-in-training who volition 1 time beryllium deemed "good." And Erivo is channeling the tone of the gravity-defying Elphaba, evoking some the Emerald City and her character's greenish tegument successful structured couture that's acceptable for battle, beryllium it successful Oz oregon connected the runway.
Which has been the other of thing bad, since the Tony winner's favourite colour was already green.
"I emotion it, and I volition ever emotion it," Erivo told Vogue successful September. "In presumption of my casting, it's fixed maine an excuse to bargain much greenish clothes."
Pink, however, was a caller task for Glinda, er, Grande.
"Pink was ne'er truly a portion of my beingness until I started collecting a batch of pinkish pieces during the audition process 3 years ago," the Eternal Sunshine artist told Vogue. And adjacent though she wore wigs successful the film, dyeing her hairsbreadth agleam blond and tinting her eyebrows were besides indispensable parts of getting into character.
There's "a softness that Glinda has with the lighter brows," she explained. "It didn't marque immoderate consciousness erstwhile I had my acheronian brows."
Happily, some she and Erivo were that miss who "really loved to store successful character," Grande added. "I conscionable wanted to unrecorded successful the DNA and mindset of the character. Now I emotion the colour pinkish and it feels similar portion of me. I deliberation it’s thing I'll beryllium everlastingly intertwined with successful a precise peculiar way."
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Already a portion of Erivo was her emotion of a fierce manicure, truthful it wasn't a agelong to adhd artfully painted nails to her magical motif. But, she told Vogue, "it's a lawsuit of utilizing the nails to link the communicative of Elphaba, alternatively than interpreting her. It’s continuing the civilization that was determination before."
Margaret Hamilton, who played the Wicked Witch of the West successful 1939's The Wizard of Oz, "had nails," Erivo explained. "I person nails and Elphaba has nails. Technically, she has nails due to the fact that of us."
Grande, meanwhile, has been sporting demure French manicures successful keeping with Glinda's dainty accepted tendencies.
And for further frank analysis, instrumentality a person look astatine each 1 of Erivo and Grande's Wicked-inspired looks close here:
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Coming Attractions
Presenting unneurotic astatine the 2024 Oscars successful March, Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande were already teasing what was successful store from the archetypal installment of Wicked, coming to theaters Nov. 22.
Erivo, who plays green-hued "bad" witch Elphaba, looked acceptable for some the reddish carpet and conflict successful leather Louis Vuitton with reptilian ruffles down the back. And Grande, who costars arsenic "good" witch Glinda, channeled aged Hollywood glam successful a powder-pink Giambattista Valli Haute Couture file gown magically accented with capable cloth to supply a peplum, a stole, a bustle and a bid each astatine once.
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They Know About Popular
The Wicked train chugged into CinemaCon successful April with Grande each aboard successful a achromatic and pinkish Oscar de la Renta minidress that resembled a blooming flower, portion Erivo sported a greenish and metallic Versace ensemble, including fierce thigh-high satin boots.
Not the colors of beloved aged Shiz, but she has an unfastened invitation to play Quidditch for Slytherin.
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Très Chic
Gold for champion dressed went to team Wicked astatine the 2024 Paris Olympics, wherever the costars were spotted astatine aggregate events.
But first, they kicked disconnected the Games astatine the July 26 Opening Ceremony, Erivo successful a strapless greenish Louis Vuitton gown with a gravity-defying silhouette and Grande successful a drop-waist powder-pink Thom Browne formal that would've made Audrey Hepburn proud.
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Where Troubles Melt Like Lemon Drops
Erivo, who besides performed "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" astatine the event, looked wickedly bully successful a glittering emerald gown by Naeem Khan astatine the 2024 Academy Museum of Motion Pictures 4th Annual Gala connected Oct. 19.
Another fashionable choice: Grande's leather-trimmed polka dot shot gown courtesy of Balmain.
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Coat of Many Colors
Erivo accessorized her T-shirt and cropped jeans with bright-green pumps and a patterned Louis Vuitton overgarment astatine an Oct. 28 screening of Wicked at the DGA Theater successful New York.
Grande looked acceptable for her archetypal time of witch assemblage successful a cream-colored button-down vest and matching skirt by Atelier Versace.
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Peas successful a Pod
It's unclear if Grande floated to the WSJ. Magazine 2024 Innovator Awards wrong a magical bubble, but her delicately embroidered achromatic Vivienne Westwood gown was acceptable for specified a journey.
Meanwhile, Erivo's Erdem dress—gray pinstripes overlaid with embellished greenish silk—was Land of Oz meets Wall Street.
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Good Witch of the North
It's unclear if Grande floated to the Nov. 3 Australian premiere of Wicked in a shimmering bubble, but her pinkish Vivienne Westwood shot gown wouldn't person looked retired of spot emerging from specified a ride.
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Far From Basic
Erivo leaned into Elphaba's wicked aboriginal astatine the premiere successful a achromatic Louis Vuitton strapless gown, accessorized with a monolithic lion's caput choker and different bedazzled greenish manicure.
"I emotion this outfit truthful overmuch due to the fact that it speaks to my character," the British histrion told Vogue Australia earlier heading to the reddish carpet (or, successful this case, yellowish ceramic road). "It reminds maine of wings and defying gravity."
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Every Look There Is oregon Was
Erivo formed yet different spell astatine the Nov. 5 Wicked photocall successful Australia, this clip successful an emerald and achromatic Marc Jacobs blouse with a swirly signifier paired with a achromatic embroidered skirt.
And for her past trick: Dividing the eye's attraction betwixt her dainty fascinator and the towering multistrap Mary Jane platforms that added astatine slightest 6 inches to her 5-foot-1 frame.
