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Ariana Grande & Cynthia Erivo | Unfiltered

Wicked co-stars Ariana Grande & Cynthia Erivo answer some candid questions with Glamour UK. From what they've learned from one another whilst filming to the emotional rollercoaster experienced during the Wicked press tour, Ariana & Cynthia share their unfiltered sentiments.

Released on 11/22/2024

Transcript

The content of this film is emotional.

It is about love, it's about friendship,

it's about acceptance.

And when you feel those deeply,

you can't help but to connect in that way.

The tears come because we're humans and we feel, and we're.

What a gift it is to feel.

Yeah, to be able to share the feelings that we have.

Well, I learned that it's okay to be as vulnerable

as I need to be or want to be.

And actually my improv skills are,

I'm not the best at improv.

I'm never as comfortable as I want to be and I'm growing.

But it's been fun watching her do that improvisation

and it comes to her so naturally.

So it's been fun to watch and learn.

That is so nice, oh my god, oh my gosh, okay.

That's so nice, I love you.

I love you.

I have learned that it's okay to know what you need

and to not be so much of a people pleaser

and to gracefully and kindly set boundaries

and speak up for what is right.

And my goodness, so much.

The list is so long and we don't have enough time.

I mean, it's endless.

Yeah, I mean, strength and generous strength

and fierce protection of others.

And we don't have enough time in the day.

Truly, I love you.

We are faced with opportunities

to find more of our power every day.

You know, challenges arise

and we have the question of what we're going to do

with the truth, which is what Wicked is about

as our producer Marc Platt says,

is when we receive new pieces

of truth, what do we do with it?

And how do we follow that power?

And how do we maintain it?

How do we continue to grow

and how do we continue to find our goodness

and follow it and maintain a connection to it?

I love that you say

that it's about finding the truth

and when you find the truth, what do you do with it?

And I think that really is a way for us to find our powers

because that is where

you seek it in the truth.

And I think we grow every day within that.

And I think we've had opportunities

to do that within our careers

and our lives, decisions that we've made.

And you know, the more true we've become,

the more ourselves we've become, yeah.

Drink tea, get some sleep when we can,

and take care of one another.

Yes, and stay close with our loved ones

and our friends and call our friends.

Yeah, yeah.

Each other.

Yeah, I've had to get better,

'cause when we were in this bubble filming,

I wasn't very good at making sure that I was gone.

I wasn't on my phone.

I disappeared.

We were gone.

And so we've learnt to be better

at connecting with the people that we love.

But we've definitely had each other.

We've been stepping into dreams that we've had.

And the content of this film is emotional.

It is about love, it's about friendship,

it's about acceptance.

And when you feel those deeply,

you can't help but to connect in that way.

The tears come because we're humans and we feel, and we're.

What a gift it is to feel.

Yeah, to be able to share the feelings that we have, yeah.

Yeah, and I think there's a tremendous gratitude,

and I think that I'm a Cancer.

And I'm a Capricorn who's learned from a Cancer.

Yes, it's true.

And it just can't be ignored

as the emotional context of the film.

And what we made in part one and part two.

The parts you don't know about,

it's just there's so much weight and so much love.

Yeah, we put a lot of ourselves into it.

It's just incredibly overwhelming to be at this point

after such a long journey.

It's been three years

and a half at this point since we were cast.

And the work began before that.

Yes.

So I think that also holds a lot of weight.

And to finally be sharing it

and to be receiving love from these fans.

Big deal.

Is tremendous. Yeah.

Starring: Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo