US actress and pop star Ariana Grande said spending time with her Wicked co-star Cynthia Erivo and morphing into a character who “believes in herself” for the prequel blockbuster has helped her heal. The two-part film is an adaptation of the hit musical and stars Oscar-nominated actress Erivo as Elphaba, alongside Grammy-winning singer Grande, who plays Glinda. Grande said forming a close friendship with British star Erivo was one of her “most cherished parts of this experience”, while Erivo said meeting Grande had “changed my life”.
“I feel really inspired by her fierce ability to be truthful and protect herself,” Grande told the New York Times. “Just by being around her, I have become more of an ally to myself when I used to do a lot of self-abandoning, and I really do credit that to our friendship. “Through spending this time with her and also with a character that believes in herself, I feel like I’ve been able to heal certain parts of myself that were in deep need of having a friend like Cynthia and a friend like Glinda.
” Grande agreed that she had been prone to people-pleasing in the past, having “trouble listening to the voices that I knew were true for fear of being judged”. “I think that it’s a really beautiful thing to overcome,” the 31-year-old said. The pair described the final day of filming Wicked as a “nightmare”, crying “every minute, every hour” but said they took their costumes home.
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