For over 20 years, “Wicked” has been asking one central question: Are you born wicked, or is wickedness thrust upon you?
Jon M. Chu’s blockbuster musical movie adaptation starring Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba (before she becomes the Wicked Witch of the West) and Ariana Grande as Galinda finds new and exciting ways beyond the Broadway musical and Gregory Maguire’s 1995 novel to interrogate what that central question actually means.
“I love that in our movie, what we all talked about is we’re both good and wicked, and every day our decisions are either good or wicked. And other people’s are, too, and sometimes we have to give grace to people on those wicked days, but let’s hope that we make more good ones than bad ones,” Chu said in conversation with Erivo for the latest installment of TheWrap’s longform video series Visionaries.