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.

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

Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo lead the cast of Wicked as witches Galinda (later Glinda) and Elphaba, and their performances have already won the overwhelming approval of OG Glinda Kristin Chenoweth. The critics seem to agree that the actresses are simply magic on the big screen, as Clayton Davis of Variety writes on X (Twitter):