Hello, That is Jon M. Chu and I’m the director of “Wicked.” “And Elfie. Can I call you Elfie?” “Well, it’s a little bit perky.” So we’re about midpoint within the film. And those two roommates, who’re very other from each and every alternative, have moved into this semi-small dorm room. And it’s Glinda and Elphaba, performed via Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo, and so they’ve simply bonded over sharing tales with each and every alternative. So that is the start in their true friendship, their first pace, shall I say. It is a very iconic scene. “Popular” is a kind of songs that everyone is aware of from “Wicked.” It’s one of the old in skill presentations, and there was once a dozen of force to try this proper and to seek out our approach cinematically into this. However in fact, it’s throughout Ariana Grande’s efficiency right here of showboating and appearing her energy to become Elphaba into somebody who may well be customery. “Exactly what they need.” And Ari is only a grasp of comedy. You’ll see it in all her strikes and the way she connects with Cynthia Erivo. While you in fact concentrate to it too, it’s her beats and her pauses are simply masterful. Paul Tazewell, our gown fashion designer, designed this pretty, fresh pledge I discovered, peignoir, for her that has now turn out to be iconic on all of the dolls and issues, and this gigantic chandelier that she swings on. It kind of feels easy, however in fact there’s a dozen of manpower this is operating that factor. There’s a man in fact on lead who’s spinning it and serving to her get round, and this was once a dozen of play games for us. We were given to actually permit the tune to return in and pull our occasion to return in. We had a pianist within the nook as a result of the entirety is reside as smartly, in order that she may just worth her personal pace. “Popular, you’re going to be popular.” And what the idea that was once for this was once instead than progress right into a gigantic closet as it’s a dorm room, that the closet was once all of the luggage that we had unhidden in earlier scenes. I like this week the place she grabs the ruby slippers and faucets it 3 times as our nod to Genius of Oz.. However in each and every of those units, despite the fact that once more, they appear easy, there’s grown males in tiny areas pulling it clear and closing it, and the engineering in each and every took months and months to design proper. One of the vital largest issues that Cynthia actually sought after was once that she didn’t simply wish to be a passenger in this, she actually sought after to be part of it. She’s no longer resisting it up to within the proven in truth, she’s in fact actually playing this consideration and this friendship. “Not when it comes to popular” That replicate isolated. It’s so obese and has such a lot engineering. It’s in fact very, very bad. Next she’ll in fact step on it. And in order that isolated took many, many months to design, together with this factor that folds again and that she falls again on. And I like this week the place she swans round her. We did this about 18 occasions. We needed to grease up the ground. Her peignoir couldn’t get stuck on that hanger. However once more, Ari is a grasp of bodily comedy and he or she does it like she was once born to do it. “What?”
