Wicked director admits iconic Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo partnership almost didn’t happen

Watch Wicked director admits iconic Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo partnership almost didn’t happen - The Independent on Dailymotion

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00:00when ariana came in you know she had been talking publicly about how she wants this role and how she

00:04wants she loved wicked so in my mind i'm like that's that's never gonna that's impossible

00:10that life doesn't happen like that but she came in and she was so prepared and she was so inside

00:16glinda i had never seen a i'd seen every glinda you could say all the auditions all the versions

00:20on broadway all the stuff on youtube every cover the way she did it was so unique and internal that

00:27um there was it was undeniable in fact i we had paired them with different actors because i

00:34didn't think they those two would pair up but at the end of the day cynthia was the best alphabet and

00:39and ari was the best glinda and so we put them together without ever having a chemistry read

00:45between the two and so the fact that it actually worked out is pretty pretty amazing