Grande’s new interview comes over a month after the first Wicked hit theaters Nov. 22, 2024, quickly becoming the top-grossing movie adaptation of a Broadway musical ever. Its sequel, Wicked: For Good, will arrive almost exactly a year later in the fall of 2025.

Grande, however, admits that she has been preparing to play Glinda for years now. And in a clip from the upcoming digital release of Wicked, she says that she dutifully covered every base… including the undergarments the witch would wear. Jon M.

"I think we all kind of knew why I was going in, and it was for Glinda," Grande says in a PEOPLE-exclusive clip from the 'Wicked' digital home release

Amidst the global success of Jon M. Chu’s live-action movie rendition of Wicked, co-star Ariana Grande is opening up about the work she put in for lead role of Glinda the Good Witch.

Jon M. Chu’s fantasy musical film ‘Wicked’ effectively transports the audience to the magical land of Oz through vivid imagery, established cultural norms, and eccentric linguistic preferences. This feat in world-building is best accomplished through Shiz University,

For Good, has leaked online and it features a sneak peek at the new looks for Cynthia Erivo's Elphaba and Ariana Grande's Glinda. See them both in action here!

Ariana Grande must be into manifesting, because the lengths she went to in order to nab the role of Glinda in Wicked could only be described as such. I mean, how else are you going to categorize the fact that she stocked up on exclusively pink clothing—down to her own ding dang underroos—in the months leading up to even auditioning for the part?