Wicked Part 1 | Featurette: Passion Project - video Dailymotion

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At university, the awkward Elphaba befriends the popular Galinda and practices sorcery in the hopes of meeting her idol, the Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

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00:00 ♪♪

00:04 Well, whenever anyone asks me, like,

00:05 "What's the one movie you want to do?"

00:09 If there was one, I'd always say it'd be "Wicked."

00:12 ♪♪

00:15 On my 25th birthday, I took myself to see the show.

00:18 I'd never heard anything or seen anything like it.

00:21 I remember that. It was, like, a rainy night,

00:22 and I felt really alive.

00:26 I felt like I was floating on air.

00:31 I had the incredible privilege of seeing

00:34 the original Broadway cast of "Wicked" when I was 10,

00:37 and I just felt an immediate bond.

00:40 I'm sure that you have dreamed of playing

00:42 one of the two roles. Would you be Elphaba or Glinda?

00:43 Glinda.

00:44 You'd be Glinda? For sure.

00:47 It had a very personal effect on me.

00:49 This is a very cinematic show.

00:51 This should be on the big screen.

00:53 There's sort of this innate understanding

00:56 of what it feels like to be someone who's different.

01:00 It's always been the thing that I listen to when I'm nervous,

01:03 when I'm needing an escape, when I need comfort.

01:06 Wait a minute. Wait a minute.

01:09 I went in for my first audition,

01:11 and I just remember being, like, buzzing.

01:14 And when she came in,

01:16 she was an Ari that I'd never seen before.

01:19 And then I got the call to come in.

01:22 [ Knock on door ]

01:25 ♪♪

01:27 Cynthia is so raw and vulnerable,

01:30 and I couldn't get her out of my head.

01:32 ♪♪

01:34 The world needs to see more of you.

01:37 We would love for you to be our Elphaba.

01:40 It's been a really long journey,

01:43 and I'm really grateful for it.

01:45 ♪♪

01:47 I never thought in my lifetime

01:51 that I would get to be a part of something like this.

01:54 We want you to be our Glinda the Good.

01:58 Oh, my God. Thank you.

01:59 I love her so much.

02:01 I'm gonna take such good care of her.

02:02 Thank you so much.

02:05 I want people to see "Wicked"

02:07 and experience it in a way they've never experienced it before.

02:11 I want them to feel what I felt

02:13 going into that theater for the first time.

02:16 I want to make them laugh, to make them sing,

02:19 to make them feel that after they've watched it,

02:21 they've been changed for good.

02:23 [ Laughs ]

02:25 ♪♪

02:29 (whooshing)

02:31 [BLANK_AUDIO]

Wicked Part 1 | Featurette: Passion Project

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