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Kim Kardashian Hosts Elaborate ‘Wicked’ Screening Party At Home With Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo
Cynthia Erivo knows her aboriginal is unlimited.
The Oscar-nominated histrion arrived acceptable to stun astatine the Los Angeles premiere of Wicked held astatine the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion connected Nov. 9.
As she's done previously, Cynthia leaned into her relation arsenic Elphaba—a.k.a The Wicked Witch of the West—wearing an instantly iconic greenish sleeveless leather full-length gown.
The 37-year-old was joined connected the reddish carpet by her Wicked costar Ariana Grande—who channeled her character Glinda the Good Witch with her pinkish get-up—as the duo proved they person conscionable arsenic overmuch champion person chemistry disconnected surface arsenic they bash on.
Wicked, based connected the long-running deed Broadway musical, tells the communicative of the relationship betwixt Elphaba and Glinda, giving fans a look astatine what happened earlier Dorothy dropped into the onshore of Oz.
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And arsenic Cynthia explained, getting to play specified an iconic relation was thing she wasn't definite would ne'er hap for her.
"I didn't adjacent judge I would beryllium seen," she told Vanity Fair in their November 2024 contented astir going connected her archetypal audition for the role. "I was like, I don't deliberation this is going to happen, but I emotion the thought of watching this musical."
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And the Tony winner didn't privation to cognize thing astir what was going connected with the audition process for her ain sanity.
"I kept telling my team, 'Do not springiness maine immoderate information. I don't privation to know,'" she continued. "'I don't privation to cognize who's gone in. I don't privation to cognize what radical are being asked to do. I don't privation to cognize thing astir it.'"
But according to the film's manager Jon M. Chu, erstwhile Cynthia entered the audition room, "She embodied this mentation of Elphaba that I had ne'er seen."
To spot much wickedly talented stars who deed the reddish carpet for the movie's premiere, support reading.
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Cynthia Erivo
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Ariana Grande
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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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Emilie Livingston & Jeff Goldblum
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Karrueche Tran
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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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Sasha Farber & Jenn Tran
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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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Remi Bader
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Chris Olsen
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Frankie Grande
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Valentin Chmerkovskiy & Jenna Johnson
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Stassi Schroeder
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Chrishell Stause
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Loren Gray
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Dylan Mulvaney
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Bella Poarch
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