Jon M. Chu Says 'Wicked: For Good' Will Have A Crazy Cameo

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00:00Wicked, for good, is going to have another crazy cameo, according to Jon M. Chu.

00:06You might have missed the Bridgerton cameo in the first Wicked movie,

00:09but director Jon M. Chu just let the world know the sequel film, Wicked, for good,

00:14will feature an amazing cameo, the voice of the cowardly lion.

00:18Here's what he had to say.

00:20While discussing the new movie with Deadline,

00:22Jon M. Chu revealed he actually sent a major actor an Instagram DM to ask him to join the film.

00:28I was like, it's not a ton of lines, but maybe you have a little time.

00:32I know you're busy. I'll come to you, the Crazy Rich Asians director said.

00:37He was like, why the F not? Let's go.

00:40And then we went ahead and recorded the lines.

00:43He won't reveal who the actor is, but he does promise,

00:46man, wait until the red carpet when the actor who gave us the cowardly lion's voice steps foot on it.

00:52It'll be wild.

00:54The actors might be walking the red carpet next month,

00:56but the characters have a journey along the yellow brick road,

00:59and Jon revealed that this one detail was actually a huge challenge for the team.

01:04We were doing sound of the mix, the final mix,

01:07but really, at the end, it was color that was holding us back,

01:11because we were getting new visual effects, he said.

01:15And then green is so sensitive, you can have so many ranges.

01:18And every time you switch, to the HDR version, to the IMAX version, to the Dolby version,

01:24those greens go everywhere.

01:26It's her skin.

01:27And then the yellows in the yellow brick road.

01:30It can't be the honey brick road, it has to be the yellow brick road.

01:34The color grade remains a big point of discussion for fans of the movie who constantly discuss the movie's visuals.

01:39But any dedicated Wicked fan can rest assured that as much as they care,

01:44Jon M. Chu cares even more.

01:46We had to really be careful, he said.

01:48So we spent a lot of time, way more time, not to repaint them,

01:52but just tweak to make sure it was in the range that we expected on the film version,

01:56on the Dolby version,

01:57because you just get more colors in HDR or stuff like that.