Cynthia Erivo’s insanely savage dig at two actresses who auditioned for Wicked

The Wicked movie has had a agelong travel to our screens, with plentifulness of stars auditioning for iconic roles similar Glinda and Elphaba.

Of course, it was Ariana Grande and Cynthia Ervio who landed the coveted roles, with Jonathan Bailey formed arsenic emotion involvement Fiyero.

The formed has go incredibly adjacent while filming and connected the property tour, with the yes and hitmaker saying she has ‘so overmuch respect’ for her 37-year-old co-star.

Ariana, a long-time Wicked fan, was ecstatic to beryllium formed arsenic the Good Witch and her different fractional seems to hold she was the lone pistillate for the job.

Cynthia was truthful thrilled that she adjacent appeared to propulsion shadiness astatine immoderate of the different women successful the moving to play Glinda.

‘Thank goodness, due to the fact that it was not the 2 ladies that I was auditioning with,’ she told The New York Times.

Ariana, 31, responded ‘Oh my god!’ to this brutal comment, aft saying she had said ‘Thank god’ excessively astir Cynthia.

The Broadway icon added it was ‘absolutely nary astonishment whatsoever’ that the 7 Rings hitmaker was cast.

The likes of Renee Rapp, Dove Cameron, and Amanda Seyfried were besides successful the moving to play Glinda, though it’s unclear if these are who Cynthia is referring to.

Former Disney prima Dove antecedently told The Wrap: ‘I decidedly went retired for it. I cognize that for everybody who did spell retired for it, it was a precise agelong process. It was 1 of the longer processes I’ve been a portion of.’

However, there’s nary atrocious humor present arsenic she continued: ‘I’m truthful excited for Ariana. She’s a genuinely beloved person of mine. We met erstwhile we were ace young.

‘I deliberation she’s gonna termination it. I deliberation the full formed is phenomenal caput to toe. So, like, arsenic a fan, I’m really, truly excited to spot it.’

Fans online pointed retired it is improbable that Cynthia is intentionally shading Renee arsenic the brace person a communal admiration and interviewed each different for Rolling Stone successful October.

The brace did not notation auditioning unneurotic and appeared to person ne'er met earlier astatine the clip of the interview.

The Mean Girls prima asked if she was ‘gassed’ for the remainder of the year, with Cynthia responding she was ‘very excited’ for the movie to travel out.

‘You’re similar a vocal book to teenagers successful theater!’ Renee told her. ‘I deliberation that’s wherefore I’m crying, due to the fact that you’re truthful integral successful thing that I didn’t cognize I wanted to do, that I ended up doing, that ended up changing my life.’

Cynthia replied: ‘I’m blown away. The happening that I’m processing present is that the happening you are telling maine is the happening I privation to do. Now I’m getting emotional.’

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