Cynthia Erivo is just like us: She can’t wait until November 2025 to see the next (and final) installment of the Wicked films. The actress stopped by The Hollywood Reporter‘s studio at Park City and let slip that she’s still waiting to get her eyes on Part 2. “I’ve seen the smallest amount,” she admitted. “But not in situ. I know it’s being edited now, but [Jon M. Chu] won’t us see it yet. I’m going to force my way into the editing room. I’m not waiting that long to watch this movie.”
Erivo was in town to receive the Sundance Film Festival‘s Visionary Award, but the timing of her appearance proved to be serendipitous — the Academy Award nominations were announced on her flight over from London. Erivo is up for best actress, and Wicked garnered 10 in total, including best picture and a supporting actress nom for Ariana Grande. She knew that word of the noms would be coming out while she was in the air, and despite her best efforts not to look at her phone, she would continually wake up to messages of congratulations from her friends and family (including tearful voice notes from Grande). “[The flight attendants] didn’t see me taking in the news, but they definitely saw me crying,” she says. “And then they gave me a box of tissues and I had to explain that it was happy tears, but nonetheless they were very kind. They gave me some space, but then at the end of the flight they all said congratulations.”
The day before the Oscar nominations went out, the Broadway production of Wicked announced their new cast, and Lencia Kebede became the first Black actress to play Elphaba full-time on The Great White Way. “I haven’t met her, and I’m trying to make sure I can get there for her first show,” Erivo says of Kebede. “And I don’t know if we’ve managed to get them to her yet, but I’m going to send flowers. I really want to celebrate that moment for her, and with her.”
For more from Erivo’s appearance in THR’s studio at Park City, sponsored by Heineken, Bogner, Starz and ACLU, watch the video above.
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