Huge salary difference revealed between ‘Wicked’ stars Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo

Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo both earned top billing in the hit movie musical Wicked — but it looks like they were paid very different amounts for their respective roles as Glinda the Good Witch and Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West. to be done.

various shops Grande was reported to have been paid $15 million for her role in the film, her first starring role. This is 15 times more than Erivo’s reported salary of $1 million.

As if anyone has seen wild scenes WickedThe world premiere in Sydney earlier this month will confirm that Grande brings a built-in fanbase from her hugely successful decade-long music career that the film’s producers no doubt thought was worth the extra investment.

But perhaps more surprising is that several supporting cast members reportedly earned higher salaries than Erivo for their smaller roles: Michelle Yeoh and Jeff Goldblum were rumored to be playing Madame Morrible and The Wizard of Oz, respectively. $2 million was paid for.

British actor Jonathan Bailey, one of the film’s leading supporting cast, was reportedly paid $450,000 to play Fiyero’s love interest.

Wicked It’s already a box office hit, earning more than $10.3 million during its first five days in theaters in Australia.

In the US, it made the biggest box office haul for a musical adaptation in history: $114 million in the US in its opening weekend.

Amidst worship, Wicked After being asked by an interviewer about the “desaturated” color palette of his version of Oz, director Jon M. Chu has hit back at a common complaint of the new film.

Some have complained about the somewhat subdued colors in the film, especially compared to the Technicolor palette of the original 1939 The Wizard of Oz film.

In a new interview for The Globe and Mail, Journalist Radheyan Simonpillai asked Chu about the “aesthetics” of the film, saying “Wicked Slightly desaturated compared to the “brilliant Technicolor” of the Wizard of Oz.

Chu doesn’t necessarily agree with that observation.

“I mean, there’s color all around it. I think what we wanted to do was immerse people in Oz, to make it a real place. Because if it was a fake place, if it was a dream in someone’s mind, then the real relationship and the risk that these two girls are going through wouldn’t feel real,” he said.

However, Chu’s explanation has been contested by some who watched the film.

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Second Wicked The film, which will cover the second half of the original Broadway musical, is scheduled to be released this time next year.