At the 2025 Golden Globes, director Jon M. Chu chats with THR and talks about some of his favorite moments of the 'Wicked' press tour. Plus, he describes the pride he feels that 'Wicked' is representing movie musicals at the Golden Globes and talks about the importance the genre has in movie history.
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00:00How are you doing? I'm very good, how are you? Good, I mean you've had a, this press tour has been unhinged, I mean.
00:07Listen, I've been living with them for three years, I knew everything that was going to go down.
00:11It's so fun, we had the best time, now the whole world is in on our little summer camp, so it's really fun.
00:17It is, like you probably knew the magic the whole time.
00:20Literally the whole time, I was like keep that camera rolling, and it's great.
00:24Yes, do you have a favorite moment of the press tour?
00:27Of the press tour? I mean, holding space will always be there, right there, right there like that.
00:33It will never go away, but that's probably the one.
00:38I mean, I love little Cicely, little Nessa, working the red carpet at the premieres.
00:44I think she's here today, and that's really funny.
00:47To see an amazing, I mean the movie's so good, but to see a musical like Wicked be recognized at this level,
00:54I mean, what goes through your mind when you get that nomination and you're here tonight?
00:58I say all the people who said movie musicals are dead, shame on you.
01:03Movie musicals will never die, they are here to stay, it is a piece of cinema.
01:09Cinema will never die, so I am very grateful.
01:13I love that people have accepted our movie and loved our movie and are singing along to it.
01:18I think that movies that the whole world can get behind and go to the movie theaters and share,
01:23that's what we need in cinema, and so the fact that they recognize that here, I love that.
01:28I mean, I was going to say embarrassed, I'm not embarrassed about it.
01:31I spent a good chunk of time trying to learn that book choreography.
01:35I didn't even try because Chris Scott, the choreographer, would just make fun of me the whole time.
01:39It's awfully hard.
01:40It's very hard. Yes, it's deceptively difficult.
01:43Deceptively?
01:44Yes.
01:45We have the new title of the next film also, Wicked, for good.
01:48For good.
01:49For good.
01:50It means it's done, for good.
01:51You guys got it, you got two parts and we're done.
01:54Yeah, I'm really excited about it.
01:56I have been told not to say too much.
01:58Apparently I've been giving too many hints, but I love it.
02:01And these girls, if you've been involved in their relationship up to this point, this gets more complicated.