Ariana Grande is embracing the elements of Glinda she’s left with after essaying the lead character for Wicked.
The 31-year-old actress and singer sat with Variety to reflect on her life during and after her role in the musical fantasy film.
Grande now feels that her high-pitched vocals for Glinda’s voice are one takeaway that “might stay.”
“Certain things maybe won’t melt away. Some will, but I’m really grateful for the pieces that will stay with us forever. What a beautiful thing to be left with, and to feel the ghost of every day,” Grande continued, before addressing another parting gift from her role.
“I’m still looking for my eyebrows,” she quipped in the interview, published on January 2. “I’ll let you know if I find them—I hope I don’t.”
Grande also vouched for her costar Cynthia Erivo—who plays Elphaba in the film—on relating to each other’s experiences.
“Maybe people underestimate how long we spent finding and disappearing into these women.”
“So when certain inflections or mannerisms take time to melt away, sometimes people poke fun,” she said of their work on the film. “But we had a job to do, and we had things to get lost in—because that’s what the piece required.”
Grande went on to call the opportunity to play Glinda in the Jon M. Chu-directed film a “dream role.”
“I had been chasing [producer] Marc Platt down for about 10 years, wondering when this movie was going to happen, when I would have the opportunity to audition,” she said with a laugh in a clip from the Wicked digital home release.
“As soon as I heard that maybe in a few months they might start seeing people, I was like, ‘Great! Now’s the time I’m starting,'” Grande added.
