Cynthia Erivo has addressed the emotional interviews she and co-star Ariana Grande gave during the premiere tour for Wicked.Over the course of their international promotional tour, the two stars, who portray Elphaba and Glinda in the upcoming musical film, have been playfully mocked for their teary appearances on social
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00:00Because every interview I've read, Cynthia, of you and Ariana,
00:03it just says that you just end up in tears all the time.
00:05We do, and I think it's because people have come in with, like, such energy,
00:09and their responses, their emotional responses, come into the room with them,
00:13and this is the first time we've been able to really, like, talk about things.
00:16So I think that we're both sort of reliving and rehashing all the things
00:20that we've been through and the journey we've been on,
00:22so we can't help it, we get very emotional about it.
00:24Yeah, which I don't blame you, because obviously you went through COVID,
00:27you went through strikes, there was all kinds of obstacles
00:31to overcome to make this movie.
00:33In fact, the very last song was filmed after the strike,
00:37so we were meant to finish, and we couldn't,
00:40we ended up stopping, and then six months later, finished with that.
00:45And is it true that when you found out that you were doing it on a Zoom call,
00:48is that when you found out that you got the roles, is that right?
00:50Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was here in London, it was 1am,
00:53and I got, like, a call for something else.
00:57They made me think it was about something completely different,
00:59and then my team likes dramatics,
01:01so they tried to surprise me about something else completely,
01:05and then by the end of it, I was weeping, crying.