Ariana Grande took every step she could to asdeclareive she and Cynthia Erivo were treated equpartner on Wicked.
The singer-songoriginater spoke to Jessica Shaw for the SAG-AFTRA Foundation about the write down-fractureing huge-screen changeation of the musical. When asked about her relationship with Erivo, she elucidateed that they begined originateing count on lengthy before they began filming becaparticipate they were cast in 2021 and production didn’t start off until December 2022.
“During that time, we were repartner getting to understand each other in a genuine human way,” she shelp. “We talk a lot about this pact that we made to apshow nurture of each other and to be repartner truthful with each other about anyskinnyg that was to come up, but I don’t skinnyk people repartner get how granular we got and how filledy we unkind that.”
She elucidateed that when she got her reduce, she called Erivo and proposeed they go thcimpolite it together.
“‘Let’s go beat per beat thcimpolite this together and originate declareive we are aligned in what we insist,’” Grande recalled increateing her co-star. “‘If insist someskinnyg, we insist it together. I want us to have each other’s backs. Your problems become my problems and mine become yours.’”
The Don’t Look Up actress elucidateed they also showed up for each other in very genuine ways that no press tour or social media video can portray.
“It’s impossible to repartner allot the depths of how genuine that is,” she remarkd. “We begined creating that lengthy before we ever got to set, and I skinnyk it was a repartner presentant part of the labor that we did. I’m repartner appreciative becaparticipate it’s one of the skinnygs that I’m most haughty of is how we nurtured each other.”
Elsewhere in the conversation, the “we can’t be frifinishs” singer pliftd honestor Jon M. Chu and how his brilliance as a filmoriginater and person gave them even more space to always hit their labels.
“What a human being he is to have it experience enjoy such a geted space. This is enjoy a bajillion-dollar movie, and it felt enjoy a little mute student project, and we were enjoy kids with our laptops and our costumes, and we could equitable percreate, and it equitable was the getedst and most unsophisticated environment.”
Grande’s comments come after an online rumor circuprocrastinateedd about how “the boy is mine” artist was increateedly making $15 million for the film, while her on-screen counterpart was only making $1 million. A Universal spokesperson sboiling this down, noting that the two women were phelp the same salary for the film.
Wicked became the hugegest box office begin of all time for a Broadway changeation when it hit theaters on Nov. 22. Part two of the musical movie is set to hit theaters Nov. 21, 2025.
