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Breaking Baz: ‘Wicked’s Cynthia Erivo And Ariana Grande Wow Students In London, Reveal They’ll Be Defying Gravity During Oscar Nominations
Wicked stars Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande will be traveling from London to the U.S. when Oscar nominations are announced.
Erivo, who plays Elphaba in the hit Universal musical movie, says she’ll be en route from London to Park City, where the Sundance Film Festival will honor her with the Visionary Award at its annual gala fundraiser Friday evening. Gangs of London star Șopé Dirisu, an NYT alumni, was also in the house to watch his friend Erivo. Grande said that after auditioning she did two chemistry reads with “two different actresses, not Cynthia,“ and that she waited so long to hear whether she’d been cast or not “I think it was like, 40 years,” though in reality it was a month and a half.
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