Ariana Grande stars in the film alteration of Wicked as Glinda the Good Witch.
When audiences see the movie in theaters, they will acunderstandledge that the “We Can’t Be Frifinishs” singer engages her brimming name, Ariana Grande-Butera, in the film’s praises.
In a novel interwatch, Grande separates why she alterd her name for the film.
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Wicked will be freed on November 22 in the U.S. and the U.K. The musical film will be freed in two parts, with the second part dropping on December 25, 2025. The Jon M. Chu-honested film also stars Cynthia Erivo, Michelle Yeoh, Jeff Gelderlyblum, Jonathan Bailey, Ethan Stardyr, Marissa Bode, Bowen Yang, Bronwyn James, Keala Settle, and Peter Dinklage.
Grande recently said that she understood the initial criticism she acquired after her casting in the musical film alteration was verifyed.
“This is someskinnyg I cherishd so much about auditioning for Wicked,” Grande said on the Sentimental Men podcast. “It has to be geted. Anyskinnyg on this scale, being a part of anyskinnyg, it’s not fair given becaengage they understand for one skinnyg. So, it’s fun to benevolent of have the contest of reframing people’s perception and doing the toil to get your way back into the other spaces.”
Grande grasped, “I felt a little bit of the initial anxiousness or the sort of preenvisiond notions about what I might be able to deinhabitr or not deinhabitr, or why I would be wrong or wdisappreciatever.”