00:00You go to queer black women walking into the room and there's always you always met with a little bit of resistance anyway
00:05And I think that when you're met with resistance you you kind of have to find your way around it
00:10And the only way around it is to be comfortable in yourself
00:16After seeing this film it feels like it's coming out at the perfect time because it has so many powerful messages about empathy
00:22Standing up for what's right and also empowering and embracing those who are othered by society
00:29What message resonated with you the most and what message do you hope audiences take away when they go see it?
00:34I mean to me one of the most important themes I think is empathy
00:40having the ability to
00:41Change I hope that people will see it and be forced to look outside themselves and maybe look at how
00:48They can have their I say this all the time, but have their bubble popped
00:53By the people in their lives and how they can become better
00:55I think you can always become more and more
00:59Good Cynthia when you were on our THR songwriters roundtable
01:03You had a really special moment with Julia Michaels where you encouraged her to own her power
01:10Really important for you
01:11To be able to sit in the power of being able to make other people's dreams come true and that idea of owning your power
01:18I feel like is really applicable to this movie right for each of you in your own lives and careers
01:23When do you feel like you started owning your power and how did you get to that place?
01:27I think I've kind of had to do it
01:29Sort of early on because I don't think
01:33Sort of like the choice isn't I haven't really had the choice to do either because I think whatever room I step into it
01:39I'm I I come in looking like this, which is thank God. Well, I mean not like this, but you know what?
01:45I mean in this game, you know
01:47You've got a queer black woman walking into the room and there's always you always met with a little bit of resistance
01:52Anyway, and I think that when you're met with resistance you you kind of have to find your way around it
01:57And the only way around it is to be comfortable in yourself so that you don't end up swaying from it
02:03Right that doesn't necessarily open all the doors
02:07but it does still you a little bit, you know, and
02:11At some point the doors will open and the right ones
02:16And it's not easy to do. No, it's really not easy to do. No
02:20But we're forced to yeah, I'm thinking I'm glad you did it me too. Hi, Miss Elphaba
02:30Look at you
02:35You're beautiful
02:37This movie is just magical and awe-inspiring from start to finish and I feel like a lot of that has to do
02:44with all of the real sets and
02:47Having those versus CGI, how did those real practical sets aid you in bringing these characters to life? Well, I think
02:54The wonderful thing about having someone that's practical is that you get to awaken all the senses
02:59So there's a you know, you're seeing things you're hearing things, but you can touch
03:05So we don't have to imagine anything there because we can see it and feel it and it's right there with us
03:09And it becomes a character in the movie itself
03:13It meant that we could really see how big the world was
03:17so we could let that come through these characters and we could
03:22imagine flying and we can see the boats coming in and water and I think that was sort of the wonderful thing and also it
03:29Allows for us to in those intimate spaces be in intimate spaces. Our dorm room is really us the space that we hold together
03:36I think that's what
03:38Adds to the magic of the world, you know, yeah
03:43Ariana I saw you on Broadway in 13
03:472008
03:49What would that young Ariana making her Broadway debut feel about playing this role and being in this movie
03:56oh my goodness, I mean I
03:58I've said this but I feel like this whole experience has been such a homecoming for me because again, I started in theater
04:05we've started it on stage and
04:07you know to have
04:09Gone so many different routes along the way and to kind of find my way back here
04:14I think has been really healing for my soul
04:17and I'm just very very grateful to be here with this material that I love so much and with this
04:22human being that I love so much to my left and
04:27It's just been extraordinary and I think she would be
04:31Having an out-of-body. I'm 31 and I'm having an out-of-body experience. So the whole thing is just too much
04:38For me now for me then for us now for us then it's yeah deeply I'd be deeply grateful
04:45Watching the movie. It seems like being in this musical theater world comes so naturally for you
04:50For both of you after being in this movie would either of you want to return to Broadway the Broadway stage?
04:55And if so, what would be a dream role for you to take on next? I think I'm ready to try something new
05:00I think I'm ready to try something that hasn't been written yet something original. I've done a lot of
05:07Material that exists
05:09Revivals and I think now is probably the time where we can find something that I can originate
05:16Yeah, that's thrilling. Yeah, I love that. Yeah, I'll do anything. I'm around
05:21And I'll send a tape. I'm kidding. I know I'm kidding. I would love to be on stage again
05:27I thought fiance with this one again. I would love to be
05:30Do I need it again?
05:34I would fall out. Yeah, but
05:38I
05:39Would die you want to try? Yeah, I want to try I
05:43Want to try do you want to try we should we'll try come with me what to beat the wizard?
05:49I couldn't possibly this is your moment. I'm coming
05:51You
05:55Wicked flies into theaters, November 22nd for the Hollywood Reporter News. I'm Tiffany Taylor
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