With just over one week until Wicked hits theaters, Ariana Grande is opening up about the grueling audition process.
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The outing also comes just a week after her co-star Cynthia Erivo threw some shade at other actresses who tried out for Glinda the Good Witch. There had been rumblings of a movie adaptation since 2012, but it finally came together nearly a decade later. Grande added that she was glad she wasn't offered the role immediately based on her musical pedigree, adding, 'Thank God. I mean, it's Wicked, it has to be earned.'
'I tried to prepare myself mentally going into it, knowing that -- listen, this is going to end up where it's meant to end up,' she said of her preparations 'So when they called me to tell me that I had the part, I had one heart attack. That was the first one. And then they told me that I was gonna be playing opposite Cynthia Erivo, and that was the second heart attack. And then I died, and I'm dead, and I'm dead here. And I'm still dead,' Grande joked.
'And, you know, that was my name the first time I saw the show. That's my name, that's my real name, so. It just feels like a coming home to little Ari in certain ways,' she said.
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