Wicked | Featurette Ariana Grande as Glinda - 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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00:00I loved Wicked so much as a little girl.

00:09It's good to see me, isn't it?

00:12I was obsessed.

00:15The songs, the sisterhood between Elphaba and Glinda,

00:21Glinda's comedy, it changed my life in so many ways.

00:27We want you to be our Glinda the Good in the Wicked freaking movie.

00:33I love her so much. I'm going to take such good care of her. Thank you so much.

00:37There is a tremendous responsibility to kind of satiate the thing that the Wicked fans want,

00:45which is pieces of the Glinda that we've all known, loved, and adored for the past 20 years,

00:50but also to make new choices and to make it your own.

00:58One, two, three.

01:00That was it. That was it.

01:02One of the first things that I wanted to do when I got to rehearsals, even before cameras were up,

01:07I wanted to be in the corset and in the shoes because learning her body is such a massive piece of the puzzle

01:13and she moves very differently and getting in those shoes and getting in that corset every day

01:18just puts you in a different place.

01:20Are you looking for something or someone?

01:25No, I was...

01:28What was I doing?

01:30I wanted her to be very uptight, awkward, but thinking that she's very much like a swan.

01:36She thinks she's the most elegant, effortless swan and she's just very rigid in the most beautiful way.

01:44Some of my favorite parts of this whole thing were kind of pitching little bits and jokes and choices here and there.

01:51Fall down!

01:53Seriously?

01:55I don't know what got me there, but I think definitely getting in her shoes helped.

02:01Like the little leg thing came when the shoes were on, but the rest of it, she kind of took over.

02:08Ariana Grande, you could see her evolve.

02:11She was becoming Glinda, a Glinda that wasn't a copycat of Kristen, but a different version of this

02:17that was still funny, that was still emotional, that was still someone you rooted for.

02:23I want to know more about that Glinda.

02:26I had to retrain my voice to be able to sing more operatic.

02:35It takes the chords a while to kind of re-acclimate and requires a lot of training with my vocal coach, Eric Vitro.

02:42It was a long process.

02:44It was a long process.

02:46It was a long process.

02:48It takes the chords a while to kind of re-acclimate and requires a lot of training with my vocal coach, Eric Vitro.

02:55It was a long but very fun process and I started before even my first audition.

03:09I think that's one of my favorite things about Glinda is that she can be so silly and also so sincere.

03:16And it could be the same line.

03:18And there are so many different ways for her to kind of try it out and for her to still feel authentic.

03:23Look at you.

03:28You're beautiful.

03:31It was such a tender, sweet moment.

03:34And I don't think, I don't know that I expected it to feel like that.

03:39To bear witness to all of the prowess that Ari is in possession of

03:45is just really wonderful.

03:48Oh, hello.

03:51Wow.

03:53I think spending this time with Glinda taught me so much about myself in a personal way

03:58and made me heal, honestly, a lot of things about myself.

04:03I'm going to lose it.

04:07Performing the act of trusting yourself has healed certain parts of me and made me trust myself more.

04:15Wicked fights for humanness.

04:17Good luck.

04:18And for people who feel different.

04:23Everyone can recognize why this is such an important piece to come out right now.

Wicked | Featurette Ariana Grande as Glinda

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