Ariana Grande has officially been cast as Glinda in Universal’s Wicked film adaptation
and as it turns out… she might have actually manifested this 10 YEARS AGO, all with a tweet!
Let’s get into it!
She’s POP-u-LAR…and a master manifestor!
Is there anything Ariana Grande can’t do?
While the Wicked film adaptation has been locked in Hollywood development hell for many,
many years, it looks like the film is finally moving along and will star Ariana Grande as
Glinda and Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba.
Talk about a match made in OZ!
The film’s director, Jon M. Chu, took to social media to announce the casting news
and show off how adorably excited Ari and Cynthia are about playing the film’s iconic
roles.
Alongside photos of the moment on FaceTime where he got to tell them both, Jon wrote,
“These two witches!!
The emotional moment I got to tell @cynthiaerivo and @arianagrande that they were our Elphaba
and Galinda in the @WickedMovie for @unistudios😭😭😭 wait until you see what they bring!!
It is other worldly.
Ahhhhh!!!”
Ari, on the other hand, shared some of the photos and simply wrote: “thank goodness
💘” Which also happens to be a song from the show!
And thank goodness indeed!
Cynthia also shared her excitement captioning her photos with, “Pink goes good with Green”
Ahhh!
We can’t WAIT to see Ari and Cynthia portray these roles!
And neither can the Broadway star who originated the role of Elphaba and won a Tony award for
it…
Idina Menzel.
Idina took to her Instagram to sign off on the casting news and show her support by re-posting
Jon’s tweet and writing, “Congrats to two amazing women.
May it change your lives for the better forever and ever as it has for us.
So much love.
@cynthiaerivo @arianagrande 💚💖”
Talk about queens supporting queens!!
We’re so here for it!
But hang on, we need to take a moment to appreciate that this great news is something that Ari
has been hoping would happen for A very, VERY long time!
Like, she basically manifested landing this role with a tweet from 10 years ago!
Seriously!
Waaaaay back in December of 2011, Ari was only 18-years-old and had just gone to see
a showing of Wicked.
After being moved by the musical and clearly inspired for her future, Ari fired off a quick
tweet that read, “Loved seeing Wicked again... amazing production!
Made me realize again how badly I want 2 play Glinda at some point in my life!
#DreamRole”
OMGeee and NOW she’s playing Glinda in the film adaptation 10 years later!
As Ari would say, just like magic!
It turns out, however, that this role isn’t the only thing Ari has manifested over the
years.
She stopped by The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon and told a story about how she called
Nickelodeon waaaaay before she landed the role of Cat on Victorious.
Jimmy asked her about a rumor he heard about how she called Nickelodeon when she was only
four years old to tell them that she wanted to be on the iconic orange network?!?
She first explained,
“I have this weird manifesting gift, I think.”
Uh, yeah, girl you are very clearly a MASTER of manifestations!
She went on to explain that she called 4-1-1 as a kid and they, by some adorable miracle,
put her through to someone at Nickelodeon studios where she said:
“Hi!
I would like to audition to be on All That.
Or the Amanda Show.
Your pick.
You tell me….
It’s up to you but I would love to be on either or… your pick.
And they were like ‘um how old are you?”
To which Ari iconically answered…
Don’t worry about it.
Between manifesting her role on Nick and now her role as Glinda in the Wicked adaptation,
it’s clear that whatever Ari sets her mind to, she can achieve…
And we cannnot WAIT to see what she sets her sights on next because we LOVE coming along
for the ride!
Now to catch up on how Ariana jokingly DISSED her own songwriting abilities click on this
Clevver News video:
Then hop to the comments and let us know your thoughts on this AMAZING casting news and
the fact that Ari manifested this 10 years ago!
I mean like she says, she really is “just like magic!”
I’m your host Sussan Mourad, you can find me on socials at Sussan_Mourad, and I’ll
see you next time!