{"id":147524,"date":"2025-11-22T03:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T03:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/147524\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T03:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T03:41:07","slug":"these-4-actresses-auditioned-for-glinda-in-the-wicked-movies-but-ariana-grande-got-the-role-amanda-seyfried-ariana-grande-dove-cameron-eg-extended-renee-rapp-slideshow-tayl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/147524\/","title":{"rendered":"These 4 Actresses Auditioned for Glinda in the \u2018Wicked\u2019 Movies, But Ariana Grande Got the Role | Amanda Seyfried, Ariana Grande, Dove Cameron, EG, Extended, Renee Rapp, Slideshow, Taylor Louderman, Wicked | Celebrity News and Gossip | Entertainment, Photos and Videos | Just Jared"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"page-links\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/11\/21\/these-4-actresses-auditioned-for-glinda-in-the-wicked-movies-but-ariana-grande-got-the-role-2\/\" alt=\"These 4 Actresses Auditioned for Glinda in the &#039;Wicked&#039; Movies, But Ariana Grande Got the Role\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00ab First<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/11\/21\/these-4-actresses-auditioned-for-glinda-in-the-wicked-movies-but-ariana-grande-got-the-role-2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00ab Previous <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/11\/21\/these-4-actresses-auditioned-for-glinda-in-the-wicked-movies-but-ariana-grande-got-the-role-2\/3\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Continue \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.justjared.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/headlines\/2023\/04\/glinda-auditioned-02.jpg\" alt=\"Amanda Seyfried photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Amanda Seyfried<\/p>\n<p>Amanda told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backstage.com\/magazine\/article\/amanda-seyfried-wicked-movie-audition-comments-75314\/\" onclick=\"getOutboundLink(&#039;https:\/\/www.backstage.com\/magazine\/article\/amanda-seyfried-wicked-movie-audition-comments-75314\/&#039;); return false;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Backstage<\/a>, \u201cLast summer while I was playing Elizabeth [Holmes on The Dropout], on the weekends I was auditioning in person to play Glinda in the movie version of Wicked \u2014 because I wanted it that much that I was like, \u2018You know what? Yeah, I have to play the last scene of The Dropout on Tuesday. I\u2019ll give my Sunday to you.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI literally bent over backwards while playing the hardest role of my life,\u201d she added. \u201cBut I think it also taught me how far I\u2019ve come as a singer, which I really wanted to prove. Because ever since Les Miz, I was like, I need to be better. I need to do better. So whatever comes next in terms of musicals, I\u2019m finally prepared.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"page-links\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/11\/21\/these-4-actresses-auditioned-for-glinda-in-the-wicked-movies-but-ariana-grande-got-the-role-2\/\" alt=\"These 4 Actresses Auditioned for Glinda in the &#039;Wicked&#039; Movies, But Ariana Grande Got the Role\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00ab First<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/11\/21\/these-4-actresses-auditioned-for-glinda-in-the-wicked-movies-but-ariana-grande-got-the-role-2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00ab Previous <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/11\/21\/these-4-actresses-auditioned-for-glinda-in-the-wicked-movies-but-ariana-grande-got-the-role-2\/3\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Continue \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00ab First\u00ab Previous Continue \u00bb Amanda Seyfried Amanda told Backstage, \u201cLast summer while I was playing Elizabeth [Holmes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-147524","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\/147524","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=147524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}