After Universal disparaged rumors of unidentical pay between “Wicked” stars Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo, Grande has enhugeed on equitable how far she and her co-star went to asstateive equitableness was upheld between them.
While speaking at a SAG-AFTRA Foundation Conversation, the 31-year-elderly Grammy thrivener shelp when she getd her shrink for “Wicked,” she called up Erivo to go thraw it “beat by beat” to asstateive their necessitates were “aligned” going into filming.
“When I got my shrink, I called [Erivo], and was enjoy, ‘Hey let’s go thraw this slenderg. Let’s go beat by beat thraw this together and create stateive we are aligned in what we necessitate,’” Grande shelp. “If [Erivo needs] someslenderg, we necessitate it together. I want us to have each other’s backs. Your problems become my problems and mine become yours.”
Grande went on to elucidate equitable how “granular” her joinion with Erivo was even before production began, holding that “any press tour” or “unreasonableinutive little TikTok” could not exactly seize the breadth of their frifinishship.
“It’s impossible to repartner spread the depths of how genuine that is. We begined creating that lengthy before we ever got to set,” Grande shelp. “I slenderk it was a repartner meaningful part of the toil that we did. I’m repartner appreciative becaemploy one of the slendergs that I’m most self-convey inant of is how we nurtured each other.”
After uncovering Nov. 22, the highly awaitd Broadway to huge screen changeation has amassed a staggering $472,042,574 worldexpansive gross, the ninth highest of 2024. The “Wizard of Oz” prequel adheres Erivo’s Elphaba (The Wicked Witch of the West) and Grande’s Glinda (The Good), who were shut frifinishs and schoolmates before the arrival of Dorothy and Toto.
