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Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo and More Best Red Carpet Moments From the ‘Wicked’ Premiere
Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo made Wicked filming truthful magic.
Just inquire Ethan Slater, who plays Boq other their Glinda and Elphaba.
“They acceptable the code for each of us,” Ethan told E! News’ Justin Sylvester in a associated interrogation with costar Marissa Bode. “It felt familial. It felt similar we were each successful it unneurotic and that started with them.”
He emphasized, “They're a unit together.”
And Ethan, who began dating Ariana past July, knows that his woman is simply a pro erstwhile it comes to her art.
“She's incredible,” the prima of Broadway's The Spongebob Musical added. “She's not a vocalist who wants to beryllium an histrion oregon an histrion who wants to beryllium a singer. She's conscionable the champion of both.” (For much with Ethan and the remainder of the Wicked cast, tune into E! News tonight, Nov. 12 astatine 11 p.m.)
As Marissa—who plays Elphaba’s younger sister Nessarose—explained, Ariana and Cynthia’s offscreen narration strengthened their performances arsenic Glinda and Elphaba.
“They person specified a beardown enslaved that I respect truthful overmuch successful the movie,” she explained. “These young girls are conscionable figuring themselves retired and translating into who they are arsenic people—having a beardown and loving enslaved to 1 another. It's truly chill to spot and it's truly special."
As she enactment it, “Friendships similar that don't needfully travel each day.”
And it was a determination that the film’s shining brace knew was pivotal for the storytelling.
“The crux of this peculiar portion is the relationship,” Cynthia told E!. “If we couldn't beryllium determination for each different arsenic Cynthia and Ari, past however could we perchance beryllium determination for the characters Elphaba and Glinda?”
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“I deliberation that there's thing to beryllium said for being capable to marque the abstraction for a idiosyncratic who is going to stock each that clip with you,” she continued. “It allows for the acquisition of making thing to beryllium 100,000 times much pleasurable than it could beryllium if you don't. It serves america some to beryllium that mode for each other.”
And Ariana couldn’t hold more. “We truly did the enactment to instrumentality attraction of each different onscreen and offscreen,” she added. “We weren't unsocial successful anything, and it was a truly beauteous thing. I deliberation that spot and that emotion is important due to the fact that not lone does this communicative necessitate it, but conscionable being a bully spouse successful that way.”
As we hold for Wicked to deed theaters Nov. 22, work connected to spot Ariana and Cynthia’s astir fashionable looks inspired by the movie.
(E! News and Universal Pictures are portion of the NBCUniversal family.)
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Coming Attractions
Presenting unneurotic astatine the 2024 Oscars successful March, Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande were already teasing what was successful store from the archetypal installment of Wicked, coming to theaters Nov. 22.
Erivo, who plays green-hued "bad" witch Elphaba, looked acceptable for some the reddish carpet and conflict successful leather Louis Vuitton with reptilian ruffles down the back. And Grande, who costars arsenic "good" witch Glinda, channeled aged Hollywood glam successful a powder-pink Giambattista Valli Haute Couture file gown magically accented with capable cloth to supply a peplum, a stole, a bustle and a bid each astatine once.
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They Know About Popular
The Wicked train chugged into CinemaCon successful April with Grande each aboard successful a achromatic and pinkish Oscar de la Renta minidress that resembled a blooming flower, portion Erivo sported a greenish and metallic Versace ensemble, including fierce thigh-high satin boots.
Not the colors of beloved aged Shiz, but she has an unfastened invitation to play Quidditch for Slytherin.
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Très Chic
Gold for champion dressed went to team Wicked astatine the 2024 Paris Olympics, wherever the costars were spotted astatine aggregate events.
But first, they kicked disconnected the Games astatine the July 26 Opening Ceremony, Erivo successful a strapless greenish Louis Vuitton gown with a gravity-defying silhouette and Grande successful a drop-waist powder-pink Thom Browne formal that would've made Audrey Hepburn proud.
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Where Troubles Melt Like Lemon Drops
Erivo, who besides performed "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" astatine the event, looked wickedly bully successful a glittering emerald gown by Naeem Khan astatine the 2024 Academy Museum of Motion Pictures 4th Annual Gala connected Oct. 19.
Another fashionable choice: Grande's leather-trimmed polka dot shot gown courtesy of Balmain.
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Coat of Many Colors
Erivo accessorized her T-shirt and cropped jeans with bright-green pumps and a patterned Louis Vuitton overgarment astatine an Oct. 28 screening of Wicked at the DGA Theater successful New York.
Grande looked acceptable for her archetypal time of witch assemblage successful a cream-colored button-down vest and matching skirt by Atelier Versace.
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Peas successful a Pod
It's unclear if Grande floated to the WSJ. Magazine 2024 Innovator Awards wrong a magical bubble, but her delicately embroidered achromatic Vivienne Westwood gown was acceptable for specified a journey.
Meanwhile, Erivo's Erdem dress—gray pinstripes overlaid with embellished greenish silk—was Land of Oz meets Wall Street.
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Good Witch of the North
Grande went afloat Glinda astatine the Nov. 3 Australian premiere of Wicked in a pinkish Vivienne Westwood shot gown.
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Far From Basic
Erivo leaned into Elphaba's wicked aboriginal astatine the premiere successful a achromatic Louis Vuitton strapless gown, accessorized with a monolithic lion's caput choker and different bedazzled greenish manicure.
"I emotion this outfit truthful overmuch due to the fact that it speaks to my character," the British histrion told Vogue Australia earlier heading to the reddish carpet (or, successful this case, yellowish ceramic road). "It reminds maine of wings and defying gravity."
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Every Look There Is oregon Was
Erivo formed yet different spell astatine the Nov. 5 Wicked photocall successful Australia, this clip successful an emerald and achromatic Marc Jacobs blouse paired with a achromatic embroidered skirt.
And for her past trick: Dividing the eye's attraction betwixt her dainty fascinator and the towering multistrap Mary Jane platforms that added astatine slightest 6 inches to her 5-foot-1 frame.
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