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Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo Negotiated 'Wicked' Pay Together

Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo revealed they worked together to negotiate their equal 'Wicked' salaries

Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty ImagesThe actresses opened up about working together to establish equal salaries while filming the two-part movie musical in a joint interview with Variety published on Thursday, January 2. “Reports of pay disparity between Cynthia and Ariana are completely false and based on internet fodder,” a spokesperson for Universal Pictures told Us Weekly in a statement at the time. Universal PicturesDirector Jon M. Chu praised the women’s equal pay negotiations in Thursday’s Variety interview.

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