Wicked stars Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo join Yahoo News to discuss how their on-screen partnership became an off-screen friendship. “We’ve just taken such great care of each other since the moment that we met,” says Grande.
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People talk about chemistry a lot with like romantic leads and how important that is for a film.
Did you two know each other or anything about each other going into this?
I was a massive Cynthia Ario fan.
I remember seeing her sing on the Oscars and turning to my mom and saying that is the best female voice I’ve ever heard in my life.
I what is happening?
Like I need to meet her and tell her that and know here we are and we’ve just taken such great care of each other since the moment that we met in a very real way in a No BS way.
There was a clear choice at the very beginning of this to do that, to take care of you each other, to be honest to always make the space for, for one another, which I think is just allowed us to really grow as performers and in a new personal lives as well.
It’s so weird because I think we kept like orbiting one another.
Like we’d be in the same space, but not me.
It’s sort of like been that for us until now.