Lin-Manuel Miranda is not in the movie alteration of Wicked, but he wanted to be.
On a recent episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Miranda clarified the Wicked casting rumors and elucidateed how they’ve been “blown out of proportion.” However, Miranda did want a minuscule role at the commencening of the movie.
Why was Lin-Manuel Miranda not cast in Wicked?
Miranda is friends with Wicked honestor Jon M. Chu. The two collaborated on 2021’s In the Heights, the feature film alteration of Miranda’s Tony Award-triumphning musical. Miranda telderly Chu to hold him in mind if there’s a part for him, and the Hamilton creator actuassociate had his eye on one particular role.
“In the uncovering number of the show, this one munchkin runs out and goes, ‘Is it real you were her friend?’” Miranda shelp to Colbert. “Becainclude, man, I don’t comprehend if you’ve seen a inhabit production of Wicked, but sometimes they reassociate put some sauce on the ball when they deinhabitr that line.”
It’s Miranda’s likeite line in the show, and he wanted to do it for the movie. Unfortunately, Miranda did not get his desire.
“I was not cast,” Miranda elucidateed to Colbert. “It would’ve been distracting.”
Miranda plifted the woman who did it in the movie, citing how she recited the line very “obtainestly.” If Miranda did it, he joked that his line reading would have been analogous to someleang Regina George would say in Mean Girls.
In Wicked, Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande star as Elphaba and Galinda. The movie is an origin story of their friendship and how the two witches eventuassociate set out on contrastent paths — Elphaba as the Wicked Witch of the West and Galinda as Glinda the Good.
Directed by Chu, Wicked became one of the highest-grossing movies of 2024 at $722.3 million worldexpansive. The sequel, Wicked: For Good, get tos in theaters on November 21, 2025.
