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the first choice to play Elphaba in a 2016 version of the film directed by Stephen Daldry. A source told,"They had meetings, the two of them, about the character and who she would be. was essentially cast in his version, and then it fell through.
" Then, in 2020 Stephen— because I wanted it that much that I was like, 'You know what? Yeah, I have to play the last scene ofon Tuesday. I’ll give my Sunday to you.' I literally bent over backwards while playing the hardest role of my life. But I think it also taught me how far I’ve come as a singer, which I really wanted to prove. Because ever sinceprocesses " she's been through. She didn't explicitly say which role she auditioned for, but has said in the past that Glinda was thefor Elphaba. She had two weeks to prepare and was obsessing over the ending riff in"Defying Gravity" the entire time. When it came time to sing it at her audition, she said,"I opened my mouth wide, I took a deep breath. The sound that escaped me is something I will hear on my deathbed.""Like, I will never not hear what I did in that room," she added."It was disgusting... Like, when you hear coyotes attack as a group — it was horrible."for the movie. In a YouTube video posted to her channel, she tearfully spoke about how this movie made her feel seen as a Black woman and hopes it can do the same for other young women."I'm acting like I'm in it, and I'm not," she said."I did audition, didn't get it. It's fine, Cynthia's going to be, oh she's going to be stellar."for Fiyero and added that he was actually in the running alongside his brother Joe."We've never talked about this publicly, but we both auditioned for the same role — Joe and I," Nick said."It was foragainst his brother but in the end he wanted one of them to be cast. He said he told Nick,"Go in there and kill it. It has to be one of us."Renée Rapp revealed that she auditioned to play Glinda."Ariana's gonna be — can I cuss? — She's gonna be fucking amazing. I'm so excited," she,"Jon , you didn’t cast me in the movie, even though I worked so hard. That’s fine, no hard feelings. Confirmed I did audition… One of the many, many things I haven’t booked."" to play Fiyero."I thought it was a great audition," he said."When I got a couple of callbacks, I was like, 'Oh shit, this is real.'" He said he didn't know how many other actors were also being considered at the time.for the movie and took to Instagram when the casting news finally became public. “yyyy did I even audition or think I had a chance?!" she wrote on her IG story, alongside a screenshot of thecasting announcement. She later shared a candid selfie with text saying, “This business…you can’t care too much about any role you’re auditioning for but you have to care enough to give it your all. I cared too much this time. I hope its okay that I'm sharing this."to play Elphaba. She explained that she sang for both roles in her audition but"secretly knew" she was a better fit for Glinda."I had an inkling in my heart always that it was going to be Glinda, but I was hearing really mixed things from people who were like, 'Oh, they want you to read for both,'" she said on the Sentimental Men podcast. "I was like, I guess that's because they don't know what my voice is — and maybe they think vocally I might be better-suited for Elphaba. I secretly knew I was only meant for Glinda."
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