Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo are revealing which scenes reduce from “Wicked” left them most heartbroken to see deleted from the Jon M. Chu-directed film.
Several of the scenes are featured in just lately launched bonus content material included in streaming variations of the film.
“I love them all. They all have a cozy spot in my heart,” Grande advised me on the crimson carpet on the Palm Springs International Film Awards Friday evening. “I love the train station scene with Boq (Ethan Slater) and Elphaba (Erivo). That’s one of my favorite lines. The first time I read the script that line Boq says, ‘Sorry, I misunderstood. I thought we were being honest,’ me and my acting coach Nancy Banks, we put so many hearts around because we were like, ‘That’s the best line in the whole movie.’ I think that scene has a lot of magnificent work in it, so I miss that.”
Then, Grande teased that there are many deleted scenes that haven’t been launched…but. “I’m talking to Jon,” she mentioned.
Erivo was additionally unhappy to see the Elphaba and Boq prepare scene go. “I love that scene so much, so I was gutted when it was not there,” she mentioned. “And the scene in the forest (with Jonathan Bailey’s Fiyero) right before I go and put the lion down… I was like, ‘Why?’ That I missed.”
Another of Erivo’s favourite scenes was the alternate on the prepare station when Glinda and Madam Morrible (Michelle Yeoh) comes rise up for Elphaba when her father Governor Thropp places her down.
“I loved that moment because it felt like people were holding her up,” Erivo defined. “Those are the three scenes that I hate that they’re gone, but they’re there now, so you can see them.”
While Chu admitted that “every” deleted scene was “difficult” to depart on the slicing room flooring, one scene was significantly powerful to lose.
“The promise was a hard one because Ari and Cynthia are doing such great work,” he mentioned. “But what I found is it takes a little bit of the tension away from the next scene (when Elphaba is invited to the Emerald City.”
Chu defined: “If you know there’s a promise and Elphaba is a woman of her word, then you know she’s going to invite [Glinda]. But if you don’t know where they are at and if you don’t know that Glinda has a sense Fiyero and her having a little thing, it makes her smarter and a little bit of a surprise. So it was very difficult. And at that point, our movie is at two hours – let’s get to the Emerald City and get to the Wizard (Jeff Goldblum).”
