{"id":131544,"date":"2025-11-12T18:06:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T18:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/131544\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T18:06:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T18:06:11","slug":"ariana-grande-cynthia-erivo-on-how-glinda-elphaba-are-different-in-wicked-for-good-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/131544\/","title":{"rendered":"Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo On How Glinda, Elphaba Are Different in \u2018Wicked: For Good\u2019: EXCLUSIVE"},"content":{"rendered":"

Moviegoers are getting set to return to Oz with the highly anticipated release of \u201cWicked: For Good,\u201d<\/a> which revisits the complex relationship between Ariana Grande\u2019s Glinda<\/a> and Cynthia Erivo\u2019s Elphaba<\/a> first chronicled in last year\u2019s blockbuster \u201cWicked.\u201d<\/p>\n

The pair, who were each nominated for Academy Awards<\/a> for their work in \u201cWicked,\u201d says their characters continue to evolve, while dealing with similar issues.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think both Glinda and Elphaba are both experiencing this extreme loneliness and they appear very different,\u201d Grande told TODAY\u2019s Sheinelle Jones in an interview<\/a> alongside Erivo that aired Nov. 12. \u201cElphaba is literally isolated. And Glinda has so many people saying that they love her and saying that they need her and yet she\u2019s completely alone.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Wicked:Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba (left),m alongside Ariana Grande as Glinda (right) in “Wicked: For Good.”Universal<\/p>\n

Grande said she wanted to see her character grow.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me, it was kind of making sure that person who\u2019s inside the bubble that we eventually get to pop is underneath the surface,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWicked\u201d has captured the imaginations of moviegoers around the world. The sequel continues to document the relationship between Glinda and Elphaba, a dynamic that Erivo says hits home for so many people.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the central narrative, which is that friendship between the two women, between us. I think it\u2019s the notion that feeling or being different isn\u2019t a bad thing,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\"ArianaAriana Grande (left) and Cynthia Erivo (right) talk about “Wicked: For Good” on TODAY.TODAY<\/p>\n

Erivo also marveled at Grande at work.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was very wonderful to watch, to see the passion for the depth of who this character was or the layers that\u2019s sort of shown up,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Grande and Erivo established a close connection<\/a> making the \u201cWicked\u201d films. It\u2019s a career moment that Grande cherishes.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo be able to act with this one and to share a space and to be a scene partner with you was the greatest privilege of my professional life,\u201d she said of Erivo. \u201cLet alone sing with her, the greatest singer in the entire world. I\u2019m spoiled for life.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWicked: For Good\u201d comes out Nov. 21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Moviegoers are getting set to return to Oz with the highly anticipated release of \u201cWicked: For Good,\u201d which…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-131544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}