Co-stars Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo are about to embark on an journey on the large display. However within the meantime, they’re sharing their pleasure in a brand new featurette for Depraved. Within the video, the 2 stars talk about the narrative of the Broadway present, which director Jon M. Chu describes as a narrative of “friendship.”
The movie will likely be a rendition of the basic present, which IMDb describes as “the untold tales of Oz’s most well-known (or notorious) characters, specifically the Depraved Witch of the West and her unlikely pal, Glinda the Good Witch.” The story follows Elphaba from delivery to varsity and thru life-changing occasions that finally label her as “depraved,” introducing spoiled wealthy woman Glinda, native prince and heartthrob Fiyero, and even the Wizard of Oz himself.
The outline continues, “As Elphaba, a passionate political activist if there ever was one, fights injustice and seeks to undo the errors of the previous, darkish secrets and techniques and private tragedies form the historical past of Oz, paying homage to the basic Wizard of Oz story whereas concurrently altering followers’ understanding of it endlessly.”
With this narrative in thoughts, the 2 stars, who will seem alongside Jonathan Bailey, Bowen Yang, Michelle Yeoh, Jeff Goldblum, Ariana’s boyfriend Ethan Slater, and extra, have been in a position to develop their friendship each on and off display.
Throughout the trailer for the upcoming movie, the 31-year-old singer mirrored on her function as Glinda and her relationship together with her roommate, Elphaba, saying, “These two very totally different ladies simply fall utterly in love with one another…and that mirrored the expertise of what occurred with Cynthia and me.”
The 37-year-old actress added, “We each simply discovered one another, I suppose … We simply bought one another instantly.”
As Ariana and Cynthia tackle the roles of scholars attending Shiz College within the Land of Oz, these dream portrayals have been long-awaited — particularly for the “Drawback” singer, who beforehand expressed that Depraved is one among her favourite tales.
The primary of two movies will hit theaters on November 22.