Erivo grew emotional while discussing the movie musical's themes of friendship between women Ariana Grande is comforting Cynthia Erivo on the Wicked press tour. Grande, 31, and Erivo, 37, shared an emotional moment while speaking about the new movie musical's friendship-forward themes in a video shared to Australian television series The Project's Instagram page with interviewer Georgie Tunny on Monday,

Grande and Erivo were joined Down Under by the film's cast, including Jonathan Bailey, Ethan Slater and Jeff Goldblum

Although Lady Gaga may have slipped a pass on the latter, Ariana Grande stepping into the cinematic universe with Wicked is probably something that still brings a glimmer of hope. However, in a major curveball,

Chu told 'SFX Magazine' that when casting 'Wicked' initially, he thought, "It’s a big enough property on its own, so we can discover two people"Elphaba and Glinda could have looked very different on the big screen.

Ariana Grande channeled her Wicked character at the Australian premiere of the movie musical, rocking a pink Vivienne Westwood ballgown similar to the on worn by Billie Burke in The Wizard of Oz.