Bad director gives best advice: “It’s about girls, stupid.”

“You know, for me, Stephen Schwartz and Winnie (Holzman) and Marc Platt were telling me from the very beginning that their guiding light when they were making the show was: ‘It’s about girls, stupid,'” she explained in an exclusive interview with RadioTimes.com.

“So as distracting as it was to worry about sets and lights and stuff… those were all important, but that’s not really why the show works.

“The relationship between these two women is a situation of nuance and sort of scratching the surface,” he continued. “I think that’s the most interesting thing. So that was my guiding light.”

Of course the main roles of Elphaba and Galinda expertly played It helped that Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande starred in the film, with the latter in particular being a huge fan of the stage show, even if it led to a few minor disagreements about the proper way to approach things.

“Ari is a big fan of Wicked, so there are moments in the Bible where I say, ‘You can’t touch this, you can’t touch that.’ And he had some plans, too,” Chu explained. “So at one point we cut the ‘The wizard will see you now’ line, because it didn’t really fit into the nature of their trip to the Emerald City. to our geographical location.

“And he said: ‘You to have to have this.” And he would start writing that into the script, even though it wasn’t written in the script.

“And finally, ‘Okay, okay, you know this, let’s… we’ll try to do this.’ And we had Stephen Schwartz do it, and it was like, what a great moment, so I’m really glad we did it.”

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The film has only just arrived in theaters, but it’s already clear that the film has been devoured by fans, and Chu revealed that seeing the film with the audience at its European Premiere in London was a “very satisfying” experience.

“We worked in our own little office for so long it felt like it had been our little secret for years,” he said. “Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo’s performance was just an epiphany. And that’s what it felt like to us. To see people cheering, singing, crying, and coming out feeling empowered and excited. To me, that’s like everything. That’s why we do what we do.” “

He added that he had never ceased to have doubts about whether he had made the right choices on many fronts, but that he was now “gradually accepting” that he appeared to have suffered a major blow.

“It was really beautiful,” he said. “I mean, it means so much. And I can’t wait for a wider audience to see it, and hopefully they see it many times and try to bring their friends and family and share it. This last one… That’s the ultimate goal for me.”

Wicked: Part One is now showing in UK cinemas.

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