{"id":284940,"date":"2025-11-11T08:37:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T08:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/284940\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T08:37:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T08:37:12","slug":"ariana-grande-cynthia-erivo-usher-in-wicked-for-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/284940\/","title":{"rendered":"Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo Usher in ‘Wicked: For Good’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAriana Grande<\/a> and Cynthia Erivo<\/a> are officially saying goodbye to Glinda and Elphaba for good.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe stars of Jon M. Chu<\/a>\u2018s Wicked<\/a> sequel took to London\u2019s Leicester Square on Monday night for the European premiere of the film. The pair, matching in extravagant black dresses, were joined by fellow cast members Jonathan Bailey<\/a>, Jeff Goldblum<\/a>, Ethan Slater<\/a>, Marissa Bode and Michelle Yeoh on the yellow brick road carpet, ahead of the movie\u2019s Nov. 21 release in theaters.<\/p>\n

\n\tFans \u2014 some donning Glinda crowns, others painted green \u2014\u00a0were desperate to catch a glimpse of the Wicked team, who have been playing these characters for some years now. Wicked: For Good<\/a> takes place parallel to the events of the original\u00a0Wizard of Oz and begins with Glinda (Grande), now officially dubbed Glinda the Good, and Fiyero (Bailey), now captain of the wizard\u2019s guard, speaking with the public of Oz as officials for the Wizard (Goldblum). Madame Morrible (Yeoh), spinning an elaborately false version of events to Oz residents, sets out to bury Elphaba once and for all. But the Wicked Witch of the West isn\u2019t done fighting.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt feels like we\u2019re coming home,\u201d producer Marc Platt said onstage at Odeon Luxe Leicester Square. \u201cAnd as you know, there\u2019s no place like home. The house of these Wicked films was built, brick by brick, by the heart of an extraordinary filmmaker filled with imagination and talent and craft and humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAs Chu took to the mic, he told the audience: \u201cIt feels good to share this, finally, with you. Sometimes making something that feels really big and and dreaming bigger than you\u2019ve ever dreamed before can feel lonely, but we were just outside [on the carpet] on that yellow brick road, and I had Cynthia and Ari and Johnny and we linked arm to arm, which we\u2019ve never done before. Suddenly that delusion that we had is very, very real and I\u2019m so lucky I get to share this movie with you guys.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe first of Chu\u2019s Wicked films debuted to critical acclaim and swiftly accrued more than $750 million at the global box office. Such was the success of the movie that Erivo and Grande were both nominated for Academy Awards in the best actress and best supporting actress categories, respectively, at the 2025 Oscars. The movie also scored a best picture nomination, though Chu missed out on a best director nod.<\/p>\n

\n\tAt a London Film Festival event<\/a> in October, Chu told audiences that they\u2019ll finally understand the emotional press run for Wicked when they see Wicked: For Good. \u201cEveryone\u2019s like, \u2018The girls were so emotional \u2014\u00a0why are they so emotional?\u2019\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s because we lived both movies. We lived their meeting, their separation, their death. We lived the whole thing before you ever saw one frame of it. \u2026. When you guys catch up and see this movie, we already know what you\u2019re gonna feel. I\u2019m excited for everyone to be there and finally share it and you\u2019re gonna see these girls are incredible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo are officially saying goodbye to Glinda and Elphaba for good. The stars of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[12875,106479,88,31379,2091,8109,122984,4112,1049,14497,8110,14787],"class_list":["post-284940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ariana-grande","tag-cynthia-erivo","tag-entertainment","tag-ethan-slater","tag-international","tag-jeff-goldblum","tag-jon-m-chu","tag-jonathan-bailey","tag-united-kingdom","tag-universal","tag-wicked","tag-wicked-for-good"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}