“We were getting mixed messages,” he tellsEntertainment Weekly.
“I was like, ‘Of course she’s coming in for Galinda.’
I’m like, ‘That was not the plan.’
Ariana Grande on ‘A Very Wicked Halloween’ special.Virginia Sherwood/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty
And they’re like, ‘Well, she prepped it.'”
I secretly knew that I was only meant for Glinda."
“She was being nice to me, and I was being nice to her,” Chu says.
Ariana Grande as Glinda.Giles Keyte/Universal Pictures
“We just let her do it.
But in my mind I was like, ‘Why is she singing Elphaba right now?’
Maybe because she’s sung those in the past, but to me, she was always a Glinda.
Ariana Grande and Jon M. Chu.Emma McIntyre/Getty
We are here for Glinda.
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Wicked, which also famously starredIdina Menzel, premiered on Broadway in 2003.
The show went on to win three of its 10 Tony Award nominations in 2004.
Grande has already beenearning rave reviewsand Oscar buzz for her work in the film.
