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Ariana Grande admitted that her Wicked quality "might beryllium a small successful the closet," particularly erstwhile it comes to however overmuch the quality loves and cares for Cynthia Erivo's Elphaba successful the film.
By Sabba Rahbar Nov 21, 2024 9:34 PMTags
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Ariana Grande feels determination is plentifulness to observe passim Oz.
Especially arsenic the Wicked actress reflected connected the narration her quality Glinda has with Cynthia Erivo's Elphaba, which she noted tin surely beryllium interpreted arsenic a queer allegory, on with galore different aspects of the movie and its root material, The Wizard of Oz.
"Glinda mightiness beryllium a small successful the closet," Ariana told Gay Times in an interrogation published Nov. 21, adding that "you ne'er know" what would hap if Glinda and Elphaba were fixed "a small much time."
The 31-year-old besides understands wherefore galore fans person shipped the characters implicit the years, explaining, "It is conscionable a true love, and I deliberation that transcends sexuality. It's conscionable a heavy information wrong each other."
"And spot and information and conscionable specified a harmless abstraction for 1 another," she continued, "which is what each relationships should be—whether it's romanticist oregon platonic."
As for Elphaba, arsenic Cynthia noted to Gay Times, "She goes wherever the upwind blows."
"I deliberation she loves Glinda. I deliberation she loves love," the Harriet actress mused. "It is existent love, which is astir apt wherefore radical are shipping it. Because what they physique with each different is an unbreakable enslaved and love."
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And arsenic some of them explained, the queer allegories spell beyond conscionable their characters, with Ariana pointing retired that the astir utilized connection successful the original L. Frank Baum books is the connection "queer."
"Oz is conscionable a solemnisation of uniqueness," she said. "And everyone is truthful beauteous successful Oz, and I don't deliberation it adjacent is simply a conscious decision. Everyone is conscionable truthful beautifully queer."
Ariana—who is currently dating Wicked costar Ethan Slater—previously said that portion 1 of the movie ends with showing Glinda and Elphaba having "truly fallen successful emotion with each other."
"[They] get the accidental to say, 'I spot it for you and I emotion you,'" she told the BBC. "'And I don't agree, but I emotion you and I privation it for you.'"
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