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Ariana Grande sat down with The Hollywood Reporter to reflect on her "Hollywood Firsts," from the first time she felt starstruck to the first time she heard her song on the radio. Plus, she dishes on her 'Wicked' audition and how she "sobbed" after finding out she was nominated for an Oscar.

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00:00I didn't ever think that I would be seen as a singer.

00:05I didn't, I hoped, you know, I hoped that people would let me do both

00:08or that I would be able to do both with my life.

00:11And at that time, it was just such an unfathomable thought.

00:15So it was really cool to hear like,

00:18oh my God, you're playing my song on the radio.

00:21Maybe I'll get to do both.

00:22Hi, I'm Ariana Grande, and we are here at my Hollywood Reporter cover shoot.

00:26And here are some of my Hollywood firsts.

00:31The first movie that made me want to make movies,

00:37I would say The Wizard of Oz is one of them

00:40because I just remember studying Judy Garland

00:43and being so in love with her performance.

00:46And then I fell totally in love with Jim Carrey.

00:50So I think about like The Truman Show and The Mask.

00:54He's just like this masterful comedian.

00:59He's one of one, but everything has so much depth

01:02and humanness beneath the surface.

01:04It's like hilarious, but also heartbreaking at the same time.

01:07And then I think about Best in Show.

01:09Those are my three.

01:11I think might have been for Annie at the Little Palm Family Theater.

01:15I was eight years old and I was very sick.

01:19I had bronchitis, but I really wanted to go.

01:22And I booked the role of Annie.

01:25And I remember I was so young.

01:27They had like a rule at the family theater

01:30that like parents had to drop everyone off

01:32and then pick them up after rehearsals.

01:33But my mom did not want to leave me at rehearsals.

01:35And so she actually auditioned as well

01:38and got a role in Annie.

01:40And she played the guy who sells the apples

01:42and one of Daddy Warbucks's housekeepers.

01:45And so she was able to stay at rehearsals with me

01:47because she auditioned to be in the show.

01:51My first red carpet was for Fantastic Mr. Fox,

01:54which I was not in at all.

01:56I had nothing to do with it, but they invited me

01:58and I was on Nickelodeon at the time.

01:59And I had my red hair and I had my little green mini dress.

02:02And I remember I felt really cute.

02:04I associate that specific shade of red

02:06with that character so much.

02:08So I love it.

02:10I love it for that.

02:12I started writing songs when I was really young,

02:14but the first one I wrote and recorded

02:16and was able to like actually have a copy of

02:19was called Let It Rain.

02:20And I was really young when I wrote it.

02:23I think it was 11 or 12 when I wrote it

02:25and then I recorded it the next year.

02:27I don't know, man.

02:28Let It Rain.

02:29Just what it will be, it will be.

02:31Those were the lyrics of what am I thinking?

02:33I was so young and so wise.

02:36I thought I was like Natasha Bedingfield

02:38slash Mary J. Blige.

02:39And I was 12.

02:42The first person that truly left me starstruck

02:45was Imogen Heap.

02:46I grew up worshiping her.

02:48She's the reason why I produce.

02:50She's the reason why I literally downloaded

02:52all the music softwares on my computer

02:53when I was 12 to start learning

02:56how to do things myself,

02:57how to comp vocals,

02:58my looping machine.

02:59Like everything I know about music production

03:01was because I idolized her.

03:03I thought I was being catfished

03:04the first time that I went to go meet her.

03:07And at some point I was like,

03:08hey mom, I think,

03:09I think it's a prank.

03:11And I think it's, you know,

03:13we watch a lot of true crime.

03:14I think we know what's coming.

03:16And this is the end.

03:17And then it wasn't.

03:18And she ends in and she's like,

03:19hello.

03:19And she answers at the door.

03:20And she's like, hello, come on in.

03:21These are the Nemo gloves.

03:22And it was perfectly wonderful.

03:25My first time hearing myself on the radio,

03:27I was actually driving to Nick on Sunset

03:30to film Sam and Cat.

03:31And I heard The Way.

03:33And I almost crashed my car.

03:36It was really exciting.

03:38And totally terrifying

03:41because I almost drove off the road.

03:42It was really an insane moment for me

03:46because A, I was getting ready to go to set

03:47for my real job at the time.

03:50And, you know,

03:51I didn't ever think that

03:53I would be seen as a singer.

03:56I didn't, I hoped, you know,

03:58I hoped that people would let me do both

04:00or that I would be able to do both

04:01with my life.

04:02And at that time,

04:05it was just such an unfathomable thought.

04:08So it was really cool to hear like,

04:10oh my God,

04:11they're playing my song on the radio.

04:12Maybe I'll get to do both.

04:15My first Wicked audition

04:16was August 13th, 2021.

04:19I like remember I had my little pink thermos.

04:23Just remember

04:23leaving it all in the room.

04:26I sang No One Warns the Wicked

04:27and I sang Popular.

04:29I sang both of them twice.

04:30And then I strangely sang,

04:33even though it was very clear

04:34that I was going in for Linda,

04:36I also sang The Wizard of Nine,

04:37Defying Gravity twice.

04:38So I was there for quite a while

04:40and I did a lot of singing.

04:41And even though I wasn't all pink,

04:43they had me sing both vocal tracks,

04:44which was really fun.

04:46And yeah,

04:48I just remember leaving buzzing.

04:53I sobbed.

04:55I absolutely sobbed.

04:58I had my face in my hands.

05:01I was just absolutely sobbing.

05:04It was really emotional.

05:06It's emotional to even talk about.

05:08It's very unfathomable

05:10because the greatest gift of my life

05:13was being able to do this work.

05:15Every single day,

05:16playing Galinda was more than a dream

05:21and more than enough.

05:22It's just the thing

05:24that I'm most grateful for

05:26in my life so far.

05:27So to have the work be celebrated

05:29and acknowledged in this way

05:30is not something you even think about

05:31when you're making it.

05:32You know,

05:32you don't even think about it at all.

05:34And then afterwards,

05:35you don't think about it either.

05:36I didn't know where I'd be right now.

05:37I thought I would be...

05:38I don't know.

05:39It's just...

05:40It's a once-in-a-lifetime thing

05:45and I don't think if I ever...

05:47I don't think I even let myself dream that far,

05:50to be honest.

05:51So, yeah,

05:53it's incredibly moving

05:54and extraordinary and insane.

05:56Oh, and then my therapist called

05:58and then my gynecologist called

06:00and I was like,

06:01oh my God, thank you.

06:03Can we celebrate over my next breast exam?

06:06Like, is everything okay?

06:07First of all, is everything good?

06:08And she was like,

06:09congratulations!

06:10And I was like, wow!

06:12That's it, right?

06:14There's a tonal shift

06:15when you go from being like

06:17on a kid's show

06:19as a character

06:20that people love

06:21and find approachable

06:22and silly

06:23and whatever

06:24to pop stardom.

06:26There's a very different thing

06:27that happens

06:28and I can't explain

06:30what's behind it

06:32or why, whatever.

06:33People sort of...

06:35It just becomes

06:36a little bit different.

06:37But I just remember feeling

06:38all of a sudden

06:40like, oh my goodness.

06:42Artists maybe are not

06:44like meant to deal...

06:46Like the same people

06:47who are destined to make art

06:49are the opposite kind of people

06:51who are meant to deal

06:53with what comes with it sometimes.

06:55Sometimes it can just be really

06:56a bit of a whirlwind

06:58and the music you're making

07:02whatever you're doing

07:03can come secondary

07:03to what they try

07:04to turn you into.

07:06So I think probably

07:06when I was 19 or something

07:08or 20

07:08I remember

07:10kind of having to stand up

07:13for myself quite often

07:14back then

07:14or at least stand up

07:16for my art too

07:16to just be like,

07:17hey, I'm here to sing.

07:18Like,

07:19what are these rumors about?

07:21Why is this happening?

07:22I'm just here to sing.

07:23And that was something

07:24I was experiencing

07:25at such a young age

07:27that it was so weird

07:28for me to adjust to.

07:30And I'm 31

07:30and I'm still

07:31it's still really hard

07:33when that feeling arises.

07:35I'm still learning

07:36and I'm still growing

07:36but I feel like

07:37I'm really proud

07:39of kind of how

07:39I've been able

07:40to navigate it

07:42and heal through it.

07:44I've been holding space

07:45since I was born

07:47I would say.

07:48I think I've

07:49I've always been

07:50an empath

07:50and a cancer

07:51and I've been

07:52I have been consistently

07:54holding space

07:55since my first breath.

07:57I want to take this moment

07:58to clarify something.

08:00There were many articles

08:01written about

08:01like what it means

08:02to hold space

08:03but it wasn't

08:04the holding space

08:05that was perplexing

08:07because I think

08:08I think holding space

08:10is something that

08:10you know

08:11I've actually been

08:12saying that phrase

08:12for quite a long time.

08:14It was the whiff.

08:15Thank you for letting me

08:16clear that up.

08:18Probably the same thing

08:19that my mom said to me

08:20which was just like

08:21you've got this.

08:24You know

08:24you can do

08:25absolutely anything.

08:26Be kind,

08:26work hard

08:27and

08:28tune out

08:31the noise.

08:38What was the way

08:40to stay

08:48taking care of

08:49how to do it?

08:50I think it was

08:51the opposite.

08:52I think it was

08:52the most disturbing

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