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'Wicked' Stars Ariana Grande & Cynthia Erivo Reveal the Magical Duo They Spent the Day With!
Ariana Grande's biggest fans? Her family.
The actress, who portrays Glinda successful Wicked, had her loved ones, including her ma Joan Grande and dad Edward Butera, connected manus to observe at the Los Angeles premiere of the film.
In fact, the full family—including her member Frankie Grande and his hubby Hale Leon—posed unneurotic connected the Nov. 9 reddish carpet, marking an other peculiar nighttime for Ariana, who is credited successful the movie with her afloat name, Ariana Grande-Butera.
The reason? "Technically, it's my small miss name," the 31-year-old precocious explained during her and costar Cynthia Erivo's quality connected The Streaming Service with Justin Hill. "Technically it's small Ari's name."
"But, no, I conscionable consciousness similar this acquisition was specified a homecoming for me," Ariana continued. "I consciousness similar I came location to myself successful a batch of ways done what I learned from Glinda, from [Cynthia's character] Elphaba and, you know, that was my sanction erstwhile I went to spot the amusement erstwhile I was 10 years old—and it felt similar a truly beauteous mode of honoring that."
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Indeed, from the infinitesimal she was formed successful the film, Ariana's Wicked travel has been an affectional thrust for her full family.
"So, she told maine successful person, we were astatine the Bourbon Room successful Hollywood," Frankie shared with Justin Sylvester and Zuri Hall astatine the premiere, held astatine Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. "I was astir to execute successful my amusement Horror Camp. And she told maine successful the bathroom, and we fell connected the crushed successful sobbing tears, maine my parent and my sister, and it was conscionable specified a beauteous thing."
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"Obviously, coming from a philharmonic theatre household and a philharmonic theatre background," Frankie added, "just knowing that she was going to get to unrecorded this imagination that I person watched her imagination astir for truthful long, for her entire life. It's precise hard to enactment into words, but I'm conscionable truthful arrogant of her."
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Keep speechmaking to spot each the stars astatine Wicked's Los Angeles premiere...
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Jennifer Lopez
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Cynthia Erivo
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Ariana Grande
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Kristin Chenoweth
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Idina Menzel
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Cynthia Erivo & Ariana Grande
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Jonathan Bailey
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Frankie Grande
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Normani
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Marissa Bode
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Sarah Paulson
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Emilie Livingston & Jeff Goldblum
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Karrueche Tran
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Michaela Jae Rodriguez
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Sheryl Lee Ralph
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Ethan Slater
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Jonathan Bailey
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Michelle Yeoh
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Kevin McHale
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Sasha Farber & Jenn Tran
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Amanda Gorman
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Laufey
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Lena Waithe
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Leah Kateb
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Bronwyn James
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Sophia Bush
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Hayley Kiyoko
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Troye Sivan
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Ashley Tisdale
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