00:00Congratulations on this.
00:01Thank you so much.
00:02What did you think when you heard this was happening and that you'd gotten the role and all that?
00:07Well, I got the role way after I heard it was happening.
00:09I remember, I mean, it's been in the air for a long time.
00:13And then I remember I was at coffee with my sister and she went inside to grab something
00:18and I pulled out my phone and saw that Ariana and Cynthia had been cast.
00:22And my first thought was, oh, this movie's going to be really good.
00:25That's so smart. They're incredible.
00:27I never thought of that.
00:29And then a year and a half later, I get an audition.
00:31And everyone in the world, I was going to say everyone in New York who's 5'7 or under
00:37is going to be auditioning for Bach.
00:39So I was like, there's no chance this goes anywhere.
00:41But I really want to give it my all.
00:43And I made a self-tape.
00:45And I read with myself.
00:46I read all of Glinda's parts.
00:47And I sang Nessa's parts.
00:49And I acted with a video of myself.
00:51Which is, as I say, the most narcissistic thing I can imagine.
00:55But I sent it in and I was immediately humiliated.
00:58But it worked and I got a callback.
01:00And the rest is, now we're here.
01:04How much did your kind of Broadway experience help with this?
01:07Or is this kind of a very different kind of thing when it's a movie?
01:10I think they're really similar.
01:11They're more similar than different.
01:12Just like Elphaba and Glinda.
01:14There's more that unites them than divides them.
01:17Thank you so much.
01:18And I think that I was really helped by my experience on Broadway
01:24because we were singing live and we were doing this.
01:27It's not like a long arc of the show.
01:29It's not the same kind of stamina per night.
01:32But to really have to find the way that your character expresses themselves through song.
01:39And not let it be a break.
01:41Not be acting and then singing.
01:42But rather connect those things.
01:44That was something that I've worked on a lot on Broadway.
01:47And then being able to apply it to something where the camera doesn't hear what you say.
01:50It hears what you think.
01:52So you can kind of just be there with your scene partner.
01:55I think it was helpful and it's also totally different.
01:59And what was it like seeing Ariana and Cynthia transform into these iconic roles?
02:03It was...
02:06It's kind of indescribable.
02:08They are such a powerhouse.
02:09The two of them have a crazy chemistry.
02:14On screen and off.
02:15They're like really close and they've got each other's backs.
02:18And it's a really beautiful thing to see.
02:20But then to see them play these iconic characters
02:22and bring a humanness and a depth and a nuance that can only be captured on film.
02:27And they have it in spades.
02:29It was just a really beautiful thing to see.
02:30I feel privileged to have been there.
02:33And I heard they kept their gowns.
02:35They kept their wands.
02:36Did you take anything from set?
02:38I tried to sneak a couple of things away.
02:40But I feel like I shouldn't share what I did.
02:42I'm going to keep that.
02:43Those are going to go with me to my grave.
02:45They've still got another year or two.
02:47I know.
02:47They're going to go with me until after movie two.
02:49Congratulations.
02:51Thank you so much.
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