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Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo and More Best Red Carpet Moments From the ‘Wicked’ Premiere
Cynthia Erivo was each ears erstwhile it came to ways she could perpetrate to her relation successful Wicked.
The Tony Award winner—who portrays Elphaba other Ariana Grande’s Glinda the Good Witch successful the movie adaptation of the Broadway show—is known for her intricate nail creation and elaborate receptor piercings, but the movie philharmonic called for the histrion to marque immoderate impermanent changes to her style.
“Because my ears are covered successful piercings,” Cynthia told her ma successful a Nov. 7 behind-the-scenes video shared to the film’s authoritative Instagram, “instead of taking retired each the piercings, we enactment prosthetic implicit it truthful that it covers up my ear. So my receptor is underneath the [prosthetic] ear.”
And Cynthia was speedy to calm her mom’s worries, saying, “It won’t wounded maine erstwhile I instrumentality it off.”
But the fake ears aren’t the lone alteration Cynthia—who besides stars alongside Jonathan Bailey, Michelle Yeoh and Ethan Slater successful the film—underwent to play Elphaba. The 37-year-old besides wore full-body greenish makeup.
“It was truly comfy!” she told Empire in an interrogation published Nov. 7. “Depending connected what we were doing for the day, it could instrumentality thing from two-and-a-half hours to four-and-a-half hours [in the make-up chair]. It felt similar a 2nd skin. I was ne'er irritated by it.”
“A batch of probe went into what shadiness would beryllium right,” she continued, “what would beryllium connected my tegument successful the close mode and however I could instrumentality attraction of my tegument whilst it was successful the makeup.”
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And portion comfortableness was important, Cynthia besides valued however the greenish skin—which plays a portion successful however Elphaba is treated successful Wicked’s plot—allowed her to get into character.
“There was the enactment to bash CGI,” she shared. “I was asked if I wanted to bash that, oregon to bash applicable [makeup], and I knew I wanted to bash applicable earlier I adjacent started, due to the fact that I wanted to beryllium capable to look astatine my hands and spot greenish hands. I wanted to look successful the reflector and spot a greenish face.”
But Cynthia besides noted that the payment wasn’t conscionable for herself.
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“I besides wanted to spot the reactions of different radical seeing maine arsenic a greenish person,” she added, “as opposed to maine walking successful arsenic myself, due to the fact that it informed however I performed.”
Keep speechmaking to spot much of Cynthia and Ariana’s Wicked-ly bully fashion.
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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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