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Ariana Grande is paying homage to her youthful self within the upcoming movie Depraved.
Early screenings of the brand new musical, which hits theaters on November 22, have revealed that the pop star, 31, is listed within the movie’s credit by her full identify, Ariana Grande-Butera. Throughout a latest interview with Australian reporter Justin Hill, Grande shared why she selected to make use of her “little lady identify” within the movie.
“I simply really feel like this expertise was such a homecoming for me,” she defined within the interview launched on Monday, November 4. “I really feel like I got here dwelling to myself in a whole lot of methods via what I realized from Glinda [and] from Elphaba. And that was my identify once I went to see the present once I was 10 years previous, and it felt like a very beautiful manner of honoring that. It felt actually full circle, and it simply felt like one thing I needed to do.”
Ariana’s dad and mom, Joan Grande and Edward Butera, reportedly break up when she was round 8 years previous. Two years later, Ariana and her mom noticed the unique Broadway solid of Depraved carry out in New York Metropolis and bought to fulfill a number of of its stars backstage, together with OG Glinda, Kristin Chenoweth.
After practically 10 years of growth, the long-awaited movie adaptation of Broadway’s Depraved is lastly on the best way. The movie model of the musical, a theatrical staple since its 2004 Broadway debut, has been in growth since 2012. Depraved, based mostly on Gregory Maguire’s 1995 novel Depraved: The Life and Occasions of the Depraved Witch of […]
Chenoweth, 56, celebrated the information that Ariana had been solid within the present’s two-part movie adaptation through Instagram in November 2021 by sharing a throwback photograph from their first assembly. “I’m undecided if I’ve ever been this proud. From the very first day I met you (swipe to see!!), you have been destined for this position,” she captioned the candy snap. “Congratulations @arianagrande! The most effective Glinda you may be with @cynthiaerivo by your aspect 💗💚 I like you!! 🧚♀️👑🪄.”
Ariana stars as Glinda alongside Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba within the Jon Chu-directed movies. (Depraved shall be launched in two elements, the second of which premieres in November 2025.) Primarily based on the beloved Broadway present, Depraved follows the backstory of the witches of Oz as they go from rival school roommates to unlikely associates.
The movies additionally star Jonathan Bailey as Fiyero, Michelle Yeoh as Madame Morrible, Jeff Goldblum as The Wizard, Ethan Slater as Boq, Marissa Bode as Nessarose and Peter Dinklage as Dr. Dillamond.
Ariana referred to as auditioning for the position of Glinda a “problem” whereas showing on the Friday, November 1, episode of the “Sentimental Man” podcast. “It must be earned. Something on this scale, being part of something, it’s not simply given as a result of they know for one factor,” she shared. “So, it’s enjoyable to form of have the problem of reframing folks’s notion and doing the work to earn your manner again into the opposite areas.”
Kristin Chenoweth is remaining tight-lipped about whether or not or not she makes a cameo within the upcoming Depraved movie. Some followers suppose they noticed Chenoweth, 56, in a trailer for the film, however the actress — who originated the position of Glinda within the Depraved Broadway musical that impressed the movie — is giving nothing away. […]
Noting that she was nervous about folks’s “preconceived notions about what I’d have the ability to ship or not ship,” Grande added: “I in all probability would’ve mentioned, ‘Why the f—? Kill me. I’ve waited 20 years for this. Kill me.’ I’d’ve mentioned that — as a fan from the surface realizing of solely ‘7 Rings’, in all probability — I’d say, ‘Effectively, that’s bull—’ So, , I get it.”
Ariana and Erivo, 37, have proven their love for his or her characters via their trendy pink and inexperienced seems to be over the previous a number of months they’ve spent selling the movie. Through the film’s Sunday, November 3, premiere in Australia, Ariana appeared straight out of 1939’s The Wizard of Oz by sporting a pink Vivienne Westwood costume harking back to Billie Burke’s iconic Glinda ball robe.
Erivo, in the meantime, channeled the Depraved Witch of the West’s well-known spooky ensemble in a strapless black Louis Vuitton costume and assertion choker. The costars stored up their respective trend shade schemes for the movie’s Tuesday, November 5, photocall in Sydney.
Depraved premieres in theaters on Friday, November 22, with half two scheduled to be launched on November 21, 2025.