Why Ariana Grande’s Brother Frankie "Sobbed" Over Her Wicked Casting

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Ariana Grande's member Frankie Grande elaborate conscionable however helium arrogant helium is of the Wicked star in an interrogation with E! News at the film’s Los Angeles premiere Nov. 9.

By Kisha Forde Nov 10, 2024 12:33 AMTags

Frankie Grande connected Bursting Into Tears With Ariana Grande Over Wicked Casting

Frankie Grande knows his sister Ariana Grande is genuinely that girl.

In fact, erstwhile the Grammy victor told her loved ones she landed the relation of Glinda the Good Witch in Wicked, they simply felt similar dancing done life.

"So, she told maine successful person, we were astatine the Bourbon Room successful Hollywood," Frankie told E! News' Justin Sylvester and Zuri Hall connected the reddish carpet astatine Dorothy Chandler Pavilion Nov. 9. "I was astir to execute successful my amusement Horror Camp. And she told maine successful the bathroom, and we fell connected the crushed successful sobbing tears, maine my parent and my sister, and it was conscionable specified a beauteous thing."

He added, "You know, obviously, coming from a philharmonic theatre household and a philharmonic theatre background, conscionable knowing that she was going to get to unrecorded this imagination that I person watched her imagination astir for truthful long, for her entire life. It's precise hard to enactment into words, but I'm conscionable truthful arrogant of her."

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This, of course, wouldn’t beryllium the archetypal clip the Summoning Sylvia prima opened up astir his affectional reaction to learning his sibling landed her imagination role.

"She worked very, very, very, very, precise hard connected the audition process and she would fto maine successful afterwards and archer maine however each 1 of them went," Frankie told E! News successful March 2023. "I retrieve erstwhile she told maine that she booked it, we conscionable some burst into tears together. Because it was thing that she had been dreaming of her full life."

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So overmuch so, that erstwhile the “7 Rings” vocalist landed the accidental of the a lifetime, she was determined to transmission each her absorption into the film.

“I person ne'er wanted thing arsenic severely arsenic I did this,” she explained during a February interview with Zach Sang, emphasizing however overmuch dedication playing Glinda truly takes. “Everything astir me, I had to deconstruct to beryllium to them that I could grip taking connected this different person. I had to wholly erase popstar Ari—the idiosyncratic that they cognize truthful well—because it’s adjacent harder to judge idiosyncratic arsenic idiosyncratic other erstwhile you’re truthful branded arsenic 1 thing. I had to spell each the mode and portion that down.”

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