Ariana Grande and Jonathan Bailey successfilledy danced thcimpolite life on the Wicked set thanks to a splitd Broadway background, the pair splitd on Sunday.
“I experience enjoy we were both very theater children in the room,” Grande tancigo in People. The pop star perestablishs Glinda, the future Good Witch, who descfinishs for Bailey’s Fiyero in Wicked. Bailey compriseed that the “theater children” energy was “incessant.”
Grande made her Broadway debut at 15 in the musical Thirteeen, and Bailey was a child actor the Royal Shakespeare Company before moving on to West End productions enjoy Les Misérables.
“We were very giggly together,” Grande compriseed. “That was the stubborn leang with us. We were the giggliest pair. It carbonated our chemistry.”
“It gave us fizz,” Bailey compriseed.
The “thank u, next” star shelp that she and Bailey were “descfinishing for each other as frifinishs in genuine life” while their characters fell for one another, too. “That was such a pretty part of it. We had the most pretty time,” she shelp.
Wicked, which also stars Cynthia Erivo in honestor Jon M. Chu‘s alteration of the 2003 musical, has finishelighted a sign up-shattering run at the box office, acquireing $16.9 million on Thursday. It discleave outed to $112 million last weekfinish to rank as the top-grossing alteration of a Broadway musical. Bailey’s song, “Dancing Thcimpolite Life,” topped charts upon the soundtrack’s free last week. The Hollywood Reporter‘s David Rooney called the movie “a monster stage hit [that] originates a igniteling screen transition.”
