Ariana Grande is switchin’ the positions for you!
The pop star, 31, appeared on the Wednesday, Nov. 6, episode of the Las Culturistas podcast along with her Depraved costar Bowen Yang — a present he cohosts with actor Matt Rogers.
Through the dialog, Grande revealed that starring as Good Witch Glinda within the Common movie adaptation of the Tony-winning Broadway musical has made her wish to shift her focus from pop music to musical theater.
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“It’s my coronary heart,” she mentioned of performing in theater.
Earlier than the “sure, and?” singer received her huge break as Cat Valentine within the Nickelodeon sitcom Victorious, she was a theater child in 13: The Musical.
“I’m gonna say one thing so scary — it’s gonna scare absolutely the s— out of my followers and everybody, however I really like them, and so they’ll deal, and we’ll be right here eternally,” Grande continued throughout Wednesday’s podcast episode. “I’m at all times going to make music, I’m at all times going to go on stage, I’m at all times going to do pop stuff, I pinky promise. However I don’t assume doing it on the price I’ve been doing it for the previous 10 years is the place I see the following 10 years.”
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For Grande, Broadway would enable her to get again to her roots.
“Reconnecting with this a part of myself who began in musical theater, and who loves comedy, and it heals me to try this — discovering roles to make use of these elements of myself and put them in little houses and characters and bits and voices and songs,” she mentioned. “No matter is sensible, or no matter roles we see match, or the place I may actually do job or honor the fabric, I’d actually like to. I feel it’s so much higher for me. I’m getting emotional.”
The “Thank U, Subsequent” singer additionally opened as much as Yang, 34, and Rogers, additionally 34, about lately working with music icon Stevie Nicks when she hosted Saturday Evening Dwell on Oct. 12.
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“She had written me a letter just a few years in the past,” Grande mentioned of the Fleetwood Mac singer, 76. “So we had spoken as soon as earlier than however we had by no means met.”
Yang, an SNL forged member himself, added, “Ari and I had been already on the ground identical to laughing being silly, after which they carry Stevie on, and I simply type of instantly knew to again away.”
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In accordance with Yang, Nicks grabbed Grande’s hand and instructed her, “I cherished your video for ‘We Cannot Be Mates.’ ”
Grande recalled the second as “surreal.”
Depraved: Half One arrives in theaters Nov. 22. Depraved: Half Two is slated for Nov. 26, 2025. The movie additionally stars Cynthia Erivo, Jeff Goldblum, Ethan Slater, Michelle Yeoh, Peter Dinklage and Jonathan Bailey, amongst others.
