{"id":289038,"date":"2025-11-16T21:32:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T21:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/289038\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T21:32:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T21:32:11","slug":"we-have-come-through-some-s-cynthia-erivo-alludes-to-ariana-grandes-spore-premiere-scare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/289038\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We have come through some s***\u2019: Cynthia Erivo alludes to Ariana Grande\u2019s S\u2019pore premiere scare"},"content":{"rendered":"

British actress-singer\u00a0Cynthia Erivo did not mince her words when asked about some of the challenges she and her Wicked: For Good castmates had experienced during the international promotional tour for the fantasy musical movie sequel. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe have come through some s***,\u201d she said during a Screen Actors Guild event over the weekend. \u201cI mean, f*** even this last week, let\u2019s be honest.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to American trade magazine Variety, Erivo made the comments while speaking to the audience at the Saban Media Centre Wolf Theatre in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

The 38-year-old was likely referring to the incident on Nov 13, in which a man <\/p>\n

jumped a barricade and charged at her co-star Ariana Grande<\/p>\n

<\/a> at the film\u2019s yellow carpet premiere held at Universal Studios Singapore in Resorts World Sentosa.<\/p>\n

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The man (centre) hugged Ariana Grande before being thrown out during the yellow carpet at the premiere of Wicked: For Good in Universal Studios Singapore on Nov 13.<\/p>\n

ST PHOTO: KELVIN CHNG<\/p>\n

In multiple videos of the incident, which has gone viral, he can be seen roughly putting his arm around Grande, 32,\u00a0in a tight hug.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The American actress and pop star recoiled in shock, and Erivo\u00a0instinctively forced herself between Grande and the intruder, while security guards quickly apprehended the man. Erivo and Malaysian co-star Michelle Yeoh comforted Grande before they composed themselves and continued walking down the carpet.<\/p>\n

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Ariana Grande comforted by her co-star Cynthia Erivo after the incident.<\/p>\n

ST PHOTO: KELVIN CHNG <\/p>\n

Johnson Wen, a 26-year-old Australian, was <\/p>\n

charged on Nov 14 with being a public nuisance<\/p>\n

<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The promotional tour also travelled to Sao Paulo, Paris and London, and will end in New York City on Nov 17.<\/p>\n

Grande and Erivo reprise their roles as Glinda The Good\u00a0and\u00a0Elphaba\u00a0the\u00a0Wicked\u00a0Witch of the West respectively in the follow-up film to Wicked (2024), which opens in Singapore cinemas on Nov 20.<\/p>\n

They discussed during the Q&A session in Los Angeles how their roles in the film have essentially changed them as artistes and individuals, according to the Variety report.<\/p>\n

Erivo said she found safety in the music from Wicked before even watching the stage production when she was 20 years old in drama school.<\/p>\n

\u201cI saw it when I was 25 and took myself for a single date for my birthday, and that place that made me feel safe, I ended up being in.\u201d<\/p>\n

The actress said she was forced by the role to face the personal fears and experiences she had previously avoided.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was too scared to look at what beauty is when seeing through the eyes of those who don\u2019t think that you\u2019re beautiful,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

Grande said playing Glinda helped her to reconnect with her craft after feeling disconnected from it \u201cfor a little while\u201d.<\/p>\n

She added: \u201cIt really felt like safe again to fall in love with creating and like maybe I was being seen for the first time.\u201d<\/p>\n

The singer said the full complexity of Glinda\u2019s character would be fully understood by viewers in Wicked: For Good.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel really relieved that people finally will get to see and know and love Glinda the way that I had to play her.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British actress-singer\u00a0Cynthia Erivo did not mince her words when asked about some of the challenges she and her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134],"class_list":["post-289038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}