At the 2025 Critics Choice Awards, Jeff Goldblum praises his 'Wicked' co-stars Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo on their performances in the film while chatting with THR on the carpet. Plus, he reacts to Scarlett Johansson and co-star Jonathan Bailey's upcoming 'Jurassic World Rebirth' film.
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00:00Look at this. Now look, these are her notes.
00:02Look, that's the handwriting.
00:04I'm a handwriting analyst.
00:06That's beautiful.
00:07I can tell many things about you from that.
00:09Do you approve of that?
00:10I approve, and you frighten me a little too.
00:12I love how tiny it is. That's impressive.
00:15Thank you so much.
00:16Well, congratulations on all of Wicked's success.
00:18You're so sweet to say. Thank you very much.
00:20First of all, have you seen Wicked for good yet?
00:23Any clips? Any content at all?
00:28No.
00:29You know, I may have seen a little cut something,
00:33but no, no, no, they're working.
00:35I know that John M. Chu, the great, great and powerful visionary,
00:39John M. Chu, is working with Myron Kirstein, the editor,
00:43and John Powell, the scorer, you know.
00:46There's a lot of things to do.
00:48The great team of special visual effects.
00:50So there's a lot to do, but I know a little bit about it.
00:54It's coming together, and before you know it,
00:57we'll be out and about seeing it and hoping that others see it too.
01:01I have high hopes for it.
01:03What a great team, and of course, more of Cynthia and Ariana.
01:07It can't be a bad thing.
01:09I'll never get enough of them.
01:12What have you thought about their Oscar nominations,
01:15all the attention they're getting?
01:17Well-deserved.
01:18Crazy about it. I'm crazy about it.
01:20I'm so proud to be associated with them and to know them
01:23and to have stood this close while they're doing their stuff,
01:27which is not only singing in a way that is as good
01:32as anybody has ever sung in the whole world.
01:35They're just masterful and thrilling.
01:37I love music, and so I'm so thrilled by that.
01:40But the way they act is so great.
01:43Ariana and Cynthia, they act in the highest manner of naturalism,
01:47subtlety, depth, complexity, intelligence, feeling.
01:53It's so beautiful what they do.
01:55And to do both of them together is a startling,
01:58miraculous, wonder-of-the-world achievement.
02:01It just makes me, even thinking about it, I'm getting teary-eyed.
02:04It's really something else.
02:07I'm on the brink of tears all the time just being around them still,
02:10any time.
02:12I saw that they're apparently opening the Oscars.
02:14The two of them are going to be performing.
02:16What do you think about that?
02:19They could open anything as far as I'm concerned.
02:21I know nothing about that.
02:24There are rumors flying around like a witch with a broom,
02:27but we'll see what occurs.
02:30The new Jurassic World trailer just came out with Jonathan Bailey.
02:34What do you think about that whole franchise?
02:36Scarlett Johansson.
02:38Scarlett Johansson, who we just released a single.
02:41I have an album out, and she sings on it.
02:44And we just released her song on a single.
02:47I adore her. I've known her since she was young.
02:50We did something, Crossed Paths in Asteroid City.
02:52I adore her, and Jonathan Bailey is a hero of mine.
02:56I adore him.
02:58Ooh, I'll be in a sleeping bag on the sidewalk,
03:01ready for the first showing anywhere.