Universal's WICKED Films - News & Discussion Thread — Page 14

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lala3 said: "Ariana Grande still looks like a teenager and does a great impression of Chenoweth( neither here or there)

Erivo does not look her age and will be covered in green makeup.

And like people have said it moves through time.

Erivo will knock it out of the park and Will quite frankly sing it better than Adele Dazeem.



Ariana has the vocal chops and has acted in a film and tv series.

Her character is not that complex. I’m sure she can pull it off



She’ll have to drop her affectations in her singing but I think she can.



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To me, Glinda is the most complex character in the musical. She has a big arch and the narrative comes from her perspective. Not to say Grande won't be good, but the character is definitely layered.

WOW! OMG OMG OMG! It's finally happening! I cannot believe we have the two leads cast now, which means this movie is finally going to be made! I also cannot believe this thread doesn't have more pages! Maybe people will get more interested when we see trailers and such? Anyway, I love Erivo from seeing her in Bad Times at the El Royale. Screw what anyone says about how hard she is to work with, I just want someone to turn in a great performance, and with her acting nominations I think that will happen. At least the singing will be good. I wish she was a little younger like Grande, because she looks so much older than Grande, but oh well. And I have always loved Grande, so I am very happy and excited for her to play Glinda. The bits I saw of her in Hairspray Live! were...not good to me. At all. But if she got acting lessons, I will keep hoping she can surprise me. And once again, her vocals will be beautiful at least.

People on Twitter are saying Chloe Bailey is Nessa. I think it's all just fan dreams, but I wouldn't be mad at that casting at all! She's fabulous.

I'd be surprised if they don't cast someone who actually uses a wheelchair.

While it would be great to hire an actor who uses a wheelchair to play Nessa, the fact that the character is required to walk without a wheelchair would make it acceptable to hire an actor capable of walking. I’m more interested in whether or not they’ll hire a little person to play Boq.

Jeffrey Karasarides said: "pmensky said: "While it would be great to hire an actor who uses a wheelchair to play Nessa, the fact that the character is required to walk without a wheelchair would make it acceptable to hire an actor capable of walking."

if they were to cast a disabled performer as Nessarose for the movie, they could use a body double for the scene where she’s walking. Plus, I’m sure the VFX artists would be able to blend the disabled actress in seamlessly with the body double."

Oh, dear.

pmensky said: "Jeffrey Karasarides said: "pmensky said: "While it would be great to hire an actor who uses a wheelchair to play Nessa, the fact that the character is required to walk without a wheelchair would make it acceptable to hire an actor capable of walking."

if they were to cast a disabled performer as Nessarose for the movie, they could use a body double for the scene where she’s walking. Plus, I’m sure the VFX artists would be able to blend the disabled actress in seamlessly with the body double."

Oh, dear."

Oh, Dear is right... Just what every disabled person wants, to be in a movie that erases their disability to be perceived that they are "better" or "normal".

AEA AGMA SM said: "It's a movie, I'd say cut the wheelchair and go back to the novel's concept of her being born armless."

The book was so dark, though. I can't imagine they are going to want to make the movie that dark...that may not work with a mass audience.

https://twitter.com/GraceRandolph/status/1461387179050078218?s=20

if this is true, are they really gonna make us wait longer for the 2nd half after all the waiting already?

sng said: "https://twitter.com/GraceRandolph/status/1461387179050078218?s=20

if this is true, are they really gonna make us wait longer for the 2nd half after all the waiting already?"

I’m going to take this with a grain of salt. But that can’t be right

The more likely rumor I've heard is that, with regard to casting Fiyero, they are looking to split the difference between Cynthia's and Ariana's respective ages and cast someone "in the middle," capable of being a realistic object of desire for either of them. More to the point, they're trying to get a certain former boy bander with considerable solo success who caught some flak from Billy Porter recently and is being (or has been) sought for other movie musical roles. He has yet to commit to the other film musical roles for which he was being seriously considered, so I don't know if he'll bite on Wicked, but his name is at the top of their list last I heard.