Cynthia Erivo reveals why she and Ariana Grande can't stop crying as Wicked 2's release date is confirmed

Cynthia Erivo has addressed the affectional interviews she and co-star Ariana Grande gave during the property circuit for Wicked.

Over the people of their planetary promotional tour, the 2 stars, who represent Elphaba and Glinda successful the upcoming philharmonic film, person been playfully mocked for their teary appearances connected societal media.

During an interrogation connected Friday’s Heart Breakfast, vigor big Amanda Holden joked, “This movie should beryllium sponsored by Kleenex. Every interrogation I’ve read, Cynthia, of you and Ariana, it conscionable says that you extremity up successful tears each the time.”

And present Erivo, 37, responded to the criticism, explaining that their affectional moments are a effect of “reliving and rehashing each the things that they’ve been through” filming the spectacle.

“We do,” she said successful agreement. “I deliberation it's due to the fact that radical person travel successful with like, specified energy, and their responses, their affectional responses, travel into the country with them.

“This is the archetypal clip we've been capable to really, like, speech astir it truthful I deliberation that we're some benignant of reliving and rehashing each the things that we've been done and travel we've been on. So we can't assistance radical get precise emotional.”

Holden added that the accumulation had to navigate respective challenges, including COVID and the actors' strike, to implicit the movie

Reflecting connected their experience, Erivo, who appeared connected the vigor amusement alongside her co-star Jonathan Bailey, said: "In fact, the precise past opus was filmed aft the strike. So we finished. We were meant to finish, and we couldn't we extremity up stopping, and past six months later, finished with that.”

The merchandise day for Wicked Part Two has been acceptable for November 21, 2025.

The highly anticipated sequel to the blockbuster movie volition get conscionable 1 time shy of a afloat twelvemonth aft the archetypal movie.

The announcement was made by the authoritative Wicked Movie X account.

The two-part diagnostic is based connected the beloved Broadway and West End musical.

Early reactions from moviegoers person been overwhelmingly positive, with galore saying the movie brought them to tears and near them everlastingly changed.

Fans took to X to stock their affectional responses, with 1 writing, "I was sobbing" and different saying, "I volition ne'er get implicit these 2 [Cynthia and Ariana]."

“This had maine tearing up, they ate this truthful bad, I privation pat 2 NOW,” different penned.

However added: “in immoderate ways Chu’s mentation mitigates the irksome, eyes-aloft, this-is-my-moment self-consciousness of the large numbers successful the signifier show. But I fishy it volition articulation the database of modern movie adaptations of musicals – Phantom, Chicago, Sweeney Todd – chiefly loved by a fanatical core.”