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Ariana Grande Says If She Hadn’t Gotten Her ‘Wicked’ Role, She ‘Might Have Ended Up in an Insane Asylum’

Ariana Grande really, really wanted to play Glinda the Good Witch in Wicked.

“If it hadn’t happened, I might have ended up in an insane asylum,” she joked during a panel Sunday (Nov. 10) in Hollywood following a screening of the film, which opens in theaters Nov. 22. If she had not gotten the role, Grande noted she knew that, because of director Jon M. Chu and producer Marc Platt, the part “was in the most loving hands, so I just kind of worked as hard as I could and let the rest fall into place. Chu admitted that Grande had “a giant wall to climb over” simply because of her fame as “Ariana Grande.” He also questioned, “Does she really know what it takes to carry a movie?

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