Kristin Chenoweth Details Ariana Grande’s Full-Circle Wicked Moment

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Two decades aft Kristin Chenoweth debuted arsenic Glinda the Good Witch successful Wicked connected Broadway, she spoke astir Ariana Grande’s portrayal successful the upcoming movie during an exclusive interrogation with E! News.

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Kristin Chenoweth is simply a sentimental pistillate erstwhile it comes to Ariana Grande.

Two decades aft the Broadway prima took the signifier arsenic Glinda the Good Witch successful Wicked, she reflected connected passing the glittery wand to the "7 Rings" vocalist for the metallic screen.

"It's truthful cool," Kristin told E! News astatine the 18th Annual Golden Heart Awards successful New York Oct. 21. "It's thing that I created and was a portion of from the beginning, and present my miss Ariana is doing the role."

Indeed, it's a quality Ariana has felt connected to since she was a small girl. "I've known her since she was 10," Kristin, 56, continued. "When she was a small girl, she came backstage. That's erstwhile we archetypal met. She said, 'I privation to beryllium Glinda.'"

And it's a representation they present look backmost fondly on.

"So, we conscionable clasp each other's hands and go, 'Can you judge that this infinitesimal has happened?'" the West Wing alum continued. "I get precise affectional erstwhile I deliberation astir it. She's going to enactment her ain stamp connected this relation and radical amended buckle up due to the fact that she's wonderful."

Ariana—who stars alongside Cynthia Erivo arsenic Elphaba, Jonathan Bailey arsenic Fiyero, Michelle Yeoh arsenic Madame Morrible and more—won't beryllium defying gravity unsocial during the film's premiere adjacent month.

"I'll beryllium determination with her," Kristin added. "I'm astir apt going to outcry and clasp her hand. I privation her to bask this moment. I privation to walk that wand disconnected to her." (For much with Kristen, tune into E! News tonight, Oct. 22 astatine 11 p.m.)

Ariana previously shared penetration into however overmuch it meant to measurement wrong Glinda's pinkish bubble.

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"I person ne'er wanted thing arsenic severely arsenic I did this," she explained connected the Zach Sang Show successful February. "Everything astir me, I had to deconstruct to beryllium to them that I could grip taking connected this different person. I had to wholly erase popstar Ari—the idiosyncratic that they cognize truthful well—because it's adjacent harder to judge idiosyncratic arsenic idiosyncratic other erstwhile you're truthful branded arsenic 1 thing. I had to spell each the mode and portion that down."

"I'm truthful grateful for it due to the fact that it is the best, astir transformative and peculiar acquisition of my life," she continued. "I emotion Glinda truthful overmuch aft spending truthful overmuch clip with her. She's truthful strong. Her arc is truthful affluent and truthful beautiful."

--Reporting by Emily Curl

(E! News and Universal Pictures are portion of the NBCUniversal family.)

As we hold for the doors of Shiz University to open, support speechmaking for much looks astatine Wicked up of its premiere Nov. 22.

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