Liz Gillies Says Bestie Ariana Grande Has Been 'Obsessed' with Wicked Since They Met as Teens: 'It's Gonna Be Incredible'

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PLUS: The actress reveals her "low-key" plans for fourth wedding anniversary with her composer hubby, Michael Corcoran

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00:00Now it's the sit-down with Liz Gillies.

00:02Hi, Liz!

00:03Your new movie spread is streaming on 2B now.

00:06Your character, Ruby, is an aspiring journalist

00:08who's broke, so she has to start temping

00:10at an outdated adult magazine company.

00:13It's hysterical, but also quite sweet.

00:15What appealed to you most about this project?

00:17I found the characters to be so endearing

00:20and also so lost in their own way,

00:23yet sort of unabashedly original.

00:25And that's why, although she doesn't see it at first,

00:27Ruby fits in so well with these weirdos,

00:30as they're described in the film.

00:32And I think it's so interesting

00:34how she finds herself in this place

00:36she never expected to be doing something

00:39she hoped she'd never be doing.

00:40And she ends up not only thriving there,

00:43but making lifelong friends

00:44and discovering who she really is.

00:46And it just kind of shows us

00:48sometimes the places we end up

00:49are not the places we necessarily want to be

00:53or would have chosen for ourselves,

00:54but where we need to be.

00:55It's almost a coming of age,

00:56but I guess I'm too old to be coming of age now,

00:59so I can't even play coming of age characters,

01:02but you know what I mean.

01:04In real life, what's a job you want to temp at?

01:06Whether it's a hobby you have

01:07or you think you'd be good at it,

01:09or just curious.

01:10I actually tried to get a job

01:12after my Broadway show closed at Cold Stone Creamery

01:15and did not get the gig.

01:16I thought because I sang

01:17and they have to sing the happy birthday song,

01:18it was like a shoo-in,

01:20but no, they had no interest in me.

01:21Oh my God!

01:22It's hard to believe it's been almost two years

01:25since the Dynasty finale.

01:26You played such a strong, dramatic character

01:29who had quite a mouth on her.

01:31What was the last thing

01:32that made you want to bring out your inner Fallon?

01:34Unfortunately, she's stuck with me forever now,

01:36so it happens more often than I'd like to admit.

01:39Whenever I'm really pressed in a way by somebody,

01:42like to give you an example,

01:43if it's like a contractor,

01:45I'm going to buy a piece of furniture or something,

01:48anything that's negotiable

01:49or I feel I'm taken advantage of in any possible way,

01:51it could be anywhere.

01:52It could be someone cutting me in line.

01:53It doesn't even matter.

01:54I immediately turn into her

01:56and I sort of just not tear them apart.

01:58I just sort of take charge.

01:59And I try not to use any of her old lines.

02:01I try not to throw them around.

02:02They're a little too mean.

02:03Bite me, Crystal.

02:05Oh, please.

02:06Call me mom.

02:07You also have a wedding anniversary coming up.

02:09So to celebrate,

02:10are you and hubby more low-key nighting kind of people

02:13or is your style go big or go home?

02:15We're so low-key.

02:16We're the opposite of,

02:18I don't even think we actually had a proper honeymoon

02:20now that I think about it,

02:20just because I was working

02:21and we got married during the pandemic

02:22and it just never timed out.

02:25We're very low-key.

02:26We like to get each other very funny gifts.

02:28I mean, one year,

02:29my husband adopted a cockroach for me,

02:31which I loved so much.

02:33We might go away this year,

02:34but it's usually a staycation situation.

02:36It's nothing too, you know,

02:37we just want to chill and we're obsessed with our dogs.

02:39We'd rather hang out with our dogs any day of the week.

02:42Okay, real quick.

02:43You know we got to talk about you and your bestie,

02:45Ariana Grande.

02:46How excited are you for Wicked?

02:48I cannot even describe to you how excited I am for Wicked.

02:51Like anybody, I mean, our age, younger, older, everybody,

02:56that musical was everything to me when I was younger.

02:58And Ari and I used to sing the songs

03:00and she has been so obsessed with it.

03:02That has been her musical and her obsession

03:04since I met her when she was 13, 14.

03:06And I'm just like, I can't even talk about it.

03:07I get chills and I just, I'm so excited.

03:10I know it's going to be incredible.

03:11It is everything.

03:12I think I'm going to watch it like standing up in the theater

03:14like when you're a child watching a Disney movie

03:16and you're just sort of like lip syncing.

03:18Like, I think that's what I'm going to be

03:21when I watch the movie,

03:22which will be embarrassing, but I don't care.

03:24When did you start planning

03:25your famous Halloween costumes?

03:27An idea might have just been born in the last week,

03:31but I cannot say a word past that.

03:33And maybe it'll change,

03:34but there's an idea floating around for sure.

03:37Okay, we're going to put 10 seconds on the clock,

03:39promote any one of your projects.

03:41Ready? Go.

03:42Please go watch Spread.

03:43It's on Tubi.

03:44It's so easy to watch.

03:45It's so free.

03:47It's the funniest movie.

03:48It's the sweetest movie.

03:49It'll make you laugh.

03:50Harvey Keitel is in it.

03:51It's the best.

03:52Go watch it.

03:53Everyone's loving it.

03:53Join the club.

03:54Be cool.

03:55Don't be a loser.

03:56Liz, thank you so much for being here today.

03:58Thank you so much.

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