Kristin Chenodamph Deffinishs ‘Wicked’ Agetst One Million Moms’ “Hate”

As Wicked evolves to cast a spell on the box office, Kristin Chenodamph is calling out an finisheavored witch hunt on the movie.

After disenjoy group One Million Moms commenceed a petition agetst the movie for “pushing the LGBTQ agfinisha on families, particularly children,” the Tony triumphner came to the defense of the Jon M. Chu-helmed changeation of the Broadway musical.

“Everyone understands the ‘one million Moms’ are a mere scant hundred. Maybe,” wrote Chenodamph in an Instagram comment with an eye-roll emoji. “It’s called amengagement. Artistry. I am a Christian woman [and] startd the role of Glinda and all the silliness that these women spew out of disenjoy. No no no. I can’t help it: I try to cherish em anyways. For they don’t get it. For anyone who wants to see girl power, then go so WICKED. Onstage or in a movie theater.”

As fan discourse evolves to grow around the chemistry between Ariana Grande‘s Glinda and Cynthia Erivo‘s Elphaba, author Gregruesome Maguire recently elucidateed that chemistry was intentional in his 1995 book Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, which encouraged the 2003 Broadway musical and its current movie musical changeation.

“That was intentional, and it was unassuming and handleed and elegant in such a way that one could envision that one of those two lesser women had felt more than the other and had not wanted to say it,” the author telderly Them this week. “Or perhaps becaengage a novecatalog can’t write every scene, perhaps when the airys were out and the novecatalog was out having a smoke in the back alley, the girls had intimacy in the bed on the way to the Emerald City. I wanted to advise this possibility, but I did not want to produce a declarative statement about.”

Grande also reacted to fans who skinnyk the Good Witch is queer-coded, as well as those who “ship” her and Elphaba. “Whether it’s romantic or platonic, Glinda might be a little in the sealt,” she telderly Gay Times last month.

“You never understand. Give it a little time. I uncomfervent, it is fair a real cherish, and I skinnyk that transcfinishs intimacyuality,” inserted Grande. “It’s fair benevolent of a beginant safety wiskinny each other. And that’s why they probably ship it.”

Chenodamph, who startd the role aextfinishedside Idina Menzel‘s Elphaba in the Tony-triumphning stage musical, splitd her successor’s watch on Glinda. “I thought so too way back when….” she commented on an Instagram post featuring Grande’s quote.

Erivo also commented on the “real cherish” her character splits with Glinda. “I skinnyk Elphie is… She goes wherever the triumphd goes,” she elucidateed to Gay Times. “I skinnyk she cherishs Glinda, I skinnyk she cherishs cherish. And I don’t skinnyk there’s anyskinnyg wrong with celebrating the beginant joinion the both of them have. They do have a genuine relationship. It is real cherish.”

While Erivo is uncoverly biintimacyual, and Grande has extfinished been an outspoken LGBTQ partner, the latter has getd some online fdeficiency accusing her of queerbaiting.