How Evil: For good celebrates its first weekend, Ariana Grande took to social media to reflect on his journey to playing Glinda in Jon M. Chu's film. Wicked films adapted from the Broadway hit based on the 1995 novel by Gregory Maguire.
On Sunday, Grande shared an image of a typed letter with her handwritten signature. Captioning the post, she thanked fans and wished everyone a “happy weekend.”
The letter served as both a greeting to the second and supposedly a final one. Wicked (it adapts the second act and conclusion of the musical) and is also a comforting farewell to her character and shows how meaningful it was for her to be a part of something she had adored since childhood.
Addressing “My Sweet Comrade Ozian,” Grande began the letter by discussing deep lessons about love, acceptance, forgiveness and more. Wicked and Oz contains.
“Oz has been my safe place for as long as I can remember,” she wrote. “The characters in these pages teach us how to love unconditionally with all our hearts; laugh; forgive (even when it is most painful); fiercely defend ourselves and each other (yes, sometimes even from each other); look within; to be curious and not afraid to admit our own evil in order to grow from it into goodness, because we all have both; see beauty in everything, especially in the unfamiliar; to be honest, because to be honest is to be kind and to fight for what is truly, deeply good, even if we have to take a long, scary walk down the yellow brick road to understand what that means for each of us.”
She added that she first “fell in love” with Wicked when she was 10 years old; it offered her “an escape and a place where I knew I could find solace and understanding throughout my childhood and adulthood.”
Grande admitted that her adoration for work and filming are separate, unique experiences. “Loving something dearly and becoming it are two completely different things,” she wrote. “Becoming your Glinda the Good and being asked to join this most wonderful group of people on the most creative and emotionally fulfilling journey has been the greatest gift of my life. I learned more from my time with Glinda than anyone else.”
“Now to see how it has changed and been the same for you all as it has been for me throughout my life has been the most meaningful, touching and cherished gift of all,” she continued. “You'll never know what this really means to me. I'm so grateful to have been a tiny piece of that puzzle bubble and to have been your Glinda.”
Before signing her name, she offered a few words of wisdom and encouragement. “Before I go, please remember: whenever things get scary or you feel alone, home is wherever and with whomever we want, and there is no place like home. The Ozian family you have chosen loves you for who you are, and I couldn't be more grateful that you exist.”
Evil: For good opened to record numbers, earning $150 million in North America and $226 million worldwide over the weekend. It's the biggest domestic opening ever for a Broadway musical adaptation, surpassing the first installment, which earned $112.5 million last year. Hollywood Reporter.
