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Idina Menzel connected Children's Book With Sister: "It Brought Me to Tears"
Idina Menzel has immoderate wicked bully proposal for Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo.
The Frozen actress, who originated the relation of Elphaba successful the Broadway philharmonic Wicked, revealed what she told Ariana and Cynthia aft they were formed arsenic Glinda and Elphaba, respectively, successful the upcoming movie adaptation. "Just ever keeping successful caput that what's underneath it each is conscionable a pistillate that wants to beryllium loved," Idina exclusively told E! News portion promoting her caller documentary Idina Menzel: Which Way to the Stage? "That has unthinkable powerfulness and that she conscionable has to fig retired however to harness that and get it retired successful the world."
She also noted that she reminded the actresses to "think of each the different small young women oregon men that are oregon anybody that are watching them to spot what it's similar to beryllium antithetic but beryllium beauteous and to ain that."
Idina—who won a Tony Award for playing Elphaba successful 2003 opposite Kristin Chenoweth as Glinda—shared she has tons of emotion for the "Thank U, Next" vocalist and Harriet actress and added that she volition ever beryllium determination to enactment them.
"They don't request my help. They are truthful supremely talented," Idina confessed. "I conscionable said, 'Look, if you're ever having a time and you request to benignant of get backmost to what it's each about, I'm present if you privation to talk, that's all.'"
Idina has ever been rooting for the caller witches of Oz. When the quality of the Wicked casting first broke successful 2021, she took to Instagram to stock her feelings. "Congrats to 2 astonishing women," the 51-year-old wrote astatine the time. "May it alteration your lives for the amended everlastingly and ever arsenic it has for us. So overmuch love. @cynthiaerivo @arianagrande."
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Production is presently underway for the film which is acceptable to beryllium released successful December 2024 with Ariana and husband Dalton Gomez being photographed connected acceptable successful London Sept. 28.
A period later, Cynthia shared a snapshot of her and Ariana astatine rehearsals, captioning the Oct. 6 Instagram Story, "Somewhere successful Oz. ILY @arianagrande."
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