Ethan Slater's Favorite Wicked Memory #shorts

Ethan Slater, who portrays "Boq" and "Tin Man" in "Wicked: For Good," reveals his favorite moment from filming the two-part "Wicked" franchise.

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00:00One of my favorite memories was from early in rehearsals.

00:03We had a hundred dancers working on Dancing Through Life

00:06and John came down, sort of filming with his phone,

00:09just to see where we were at, and he gathered everyone around

00:11and he gave this beautiful speech that was about, you know,

00:15how he fell in love with filming dance

00:17and how he fell in love with this kind of storytelling.

00:20And he said, I'm not here to chop up your movements

00:22and tell my story, I'm here to help you tell your story through dance.

00:25We're all in it together.

00:26If you need anything on set, it's a big set.

00:29If you need water and nobody is listening to you, come to me.

00:32And that sounds like a platitude that someone might say

00:34on the first day of a long project,

00:35but John held that up through the entire thing.

00:37So I think there was a real community and it felt,

00:39it just, the way that you build a community in a cast on stage

00:43or in the theater community, that was there in a really beautiful way.

00:47I remember one day Johnny Bailey saying like,

00:48it really feels like we're doing a student film

00:51and then suddenly it doesn't, you know?

00:53But that was really the feeling.

00:55It's like, it feels like we're doing a student film

00:56and then suddenly like, look at us now.

00:59Yeah.