{"id":299329,"date":"2025-11-18T15:22:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T15:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/299329\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T15:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T15:22:10","slug":"universal-reps-explain-why-cynthia-erivo-ariana-grande-are-skipping-interviews-at-wicked-2%e2%80%b2-nyc-premiere-ariana-grande-cynthia-erivo-wicked-wicked-for-good-celebrity-news-an","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/299329\/","title":{"rendered":"Universal Reps Explain Why Cynthia Erivo &#038; Ariana Grande Are Skipping Interviews at \u2018Wicked 2\u2032 NYC Premiere | Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, Wicked, Wicked: For Good | Celebrity News and Gossip | Entertainment, Photos and Videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cast of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/wicked\/\" title=\"Wicked\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wicked: For Good<\/a> will be walking the red carpet tonight at the New York City premiere, but don\u2019t expect to see any interviews with leading ladies <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/cynthia-erivo\/\" title=\"Cynthia Erivo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cynthia Erivo<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/ariana-grande\/\" title=\"Ariana Grande\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ariana Grande<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Journalists who are already standing on the red carpet and waiting for the stars to arrive were just informed that they will not get to speak to the Elphaba or Glinda actresses.<\/p>\n<p>A rep has explained what happened.<\/p>\n<p>Keep reading to find out more\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCynthia is not feeling well and has lost her voice, therefore she and Ariana will not be doing interviews this evening,\u201d the rep told <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/film\/news\/cynthia-erivo-ariana-grande-skipping-interviews-wicked-for-good-ny-premiere-1236583962\" onclick=\"getOutboundLink(&#039;https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/film\/news\/cynthia-erivo-ariana-grande-skipping-interviews-wicked-for-good-ny-premiere-1236583962&#039;); return false;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Variety<\/a>, adding that Ariana is holding out on interviews in solidarity with Cynthia.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the illness, Cynthia will still attend the event and pose for photos. The rest of the cast is also expected to attend. <\/p>\n<p>There were some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/11\/04\/ariana-grande-will-miss-wicked-brazil-premiere-due-to-flight-issues\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">issues at the beginning of the press tour<\/a> as well. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The cast of Wicked: For Good will be walking the red carpet tonight at the New York City&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88],"class_list":{"0":"post-299329","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299329","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=299329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}