Wicked’s Ariana Grande is ensuring to remain true to the theatre children as she fought to maintain an iconic line from the musical.
During an unique interview on the Sentimental Men podcast, the Side to Side hitmaker, who portrays the position of Glinda within the musical movie, opened up about together with a well-known line from the unique.
The singer mentioned, “The wizard will see you now” in One Short Day was changed with “Who rang that bell?”
Citing a reference from the musical, Grande additional went on so as to add, “I used to be sick to my abdomen.”
She recalled texting director Jon M. Chu an pressing message after a selected incident, “‘Please, name me’. He was like, ‘Are you okay?’ I mentioned, ‘I do not assume I’m. We want to speak.
“He calls me and I used to be like, ‘We cannot try this. It needs to be ‘The Wizard will see you now’. Are you loopy?'”
The 31-year-old mentioned that since she couldn’t comprise the injury executed to her favourite musical, she turned to her co-star Cynthia Erivo for assist.
To her shock, the 37-year-old was onboard with the choice to ‘bombard’ Chu till he gave in to the strain.
She defined, “Then we name Jon collectively to deal with this huge downside. The very first thing on our job record, we actually bombarded him. I add her into the chat, we each have been like ‘We need to deal with this. It cannot be that.”
For the unversed, Wicked: Part 2 is slated to launch in cinemas on November 21, 2025.
