If [Erivo needs] something, we need it together.

I want us to have each others backs.

Your problems become my problems and mine become yours.

Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba and Ariana Grande as Glinda sit together in a field of poppies during sunset in a still from ‘Wicked’

(L-R) Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba and Ariana Granda as Glinda in ‘Wicked’Universal

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Were always like, whats the ground you need?, what feeling do you need?

We are looking in each others eyes to see, what does she need?’

L-R: Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande and Jonathan Bailey in ‘Wicked: Part One’

Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande and director Jon M. Chu on the set ofWicked(2024) (Giles Keyte/Universal Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection)

We are friends, she said warmly of Grande.

We are in a deeply honest relationship outside of the work.

I talk to her almost every day.

If theres something she wants my opinion on, she sends it to me.

We are always trying to be aligned.

Breaking multiple box office records,Wickedhad a $164.2 million worldwide opening.