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Michelle Yeoh Admits She "Had No Clue" What 'Wicked' Was When Director Jon M. Chu Called Her

Yeoh stars alongside Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo in the big screen adaptation of the Tony-winning musical, which premiered in L.A. on Saturday.

When Wicked director Jon M. Chu called up Michelle Yeoh — after the two previously collaborated on 2018’s Crazy Rich Asians — for a major role in the musical adaptation, the star admits she had a few questions. At the film ‘s Los Angeles premiere on Saturday, Yeoh remembered how Chu had asked her to read the script with an eye to play Madame Morrible, “and I at that point had no clue what he was talking about because I had not seen Wicked the musical before. “In this movie, even though it’s rollicking entertainment, it’s about the yearning for a world that works for everyone and for every single creature; and then a story about some underdogs and some members of the potential opposition who come together and form an alliance that may be the element that allows for the critical mass to appear that turns the whole ship of state, politically, culturally, spiritually, in another direction,” he added.

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