Wicked Part 1 | Featurette: Passion Project
At university, the awkward Elphaba befriends the popular Galinda and practices sorcery in the hopes of meeting her idol, the Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
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00:00 ♪♪
00:04 Well, whenever anyone asks me, like,
00:05 "What's the one movie you want to do?"
00:09 If there was one, I'd always say it'd be "Wicked."
00:12 ♪♪
00:15 On my 25th birthday, I took myself to see the show.
00:18 I'd never heard anything or seen anything like it.
00:21 I remember that. It was, like, a rainy night,
00:22 and I felt really alive.
00:26 I felt like I was floating on air.
00:31 I had the incredible privilege of seeing
00:34 the original Broadway cast of "Wicked" when I was 10,
00:37 and I just felt an immediate bond.
00:40 I'm sure that you have dreamed of playing
00:42 one of the two roles. Would you be Elphaba or Glinda?
00:43 Glinda.
00:44 You'd be Glinda? For sure.
00:47 It had a very personal effect on me.
00:49 This is a very cinematic show.
00:51 This should be on the big screen.
00:53 There's sort of this innate understanding
00:56 of what it feels like to be someone who's different.
01:00 It's always been the thing that I listen to when I'm nervous,
01:03 when I'm needing an escape, when I need comfort.
01:06 Wait a minute. Wait a minute.
01:09 I went in for my first audition,
01:11 and I just remember being, like, buzzing.
01:14 And when she came in,
01:16 she was an Ari that I'd never seen before.
01:19 And then I got the call to come in.
01:22 [ Knock on door ]
01:25 ♪♪
01:27 Cynthia is so raw and vulnerable,
01:30 and I couldn't get her out of my head.
01:32 ♪♪
01:34 The world needs to see more of you.
01:37 We would love for you to be our Elphaba.
01:40 It's been a really long journey,
01:43 and I'm really grateful for it.
01:45 ♪♪
01:47 I never thought in my lifetime
01:51 that I would get to be a part of something like this.
01:54 We want you to be our Glinda the Good.
01:58 Oh, my God. Thank you.
01:59 I love her so much.
02:01 I'm gonna take such good care of her.
02:02 Thank you so much.
02:05 I want people to see "Wicked"
02:07 and experience it in a way they've never experienced it before.
02:11 I want them to feel what I felt
02:13 going into that theater for the first time.
02:16 I want to make them laugh, to make them sing,
02:19 to make them feel that after they've watched it,
02:21 they've been changed for good.
02:23 [ Laughs ]
02:25 ♪♪
02:29 (whooshing)
02:31 [BLANK_AUDIO]