{"id":217527,"date":"2025-12-05T22:19:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T22:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/217527\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T22:19:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T22:19:11","slug":"ariana-grande-created-emotional-triggers-to-avoid-her-own-pain-during-wicked-the-irish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/217527\/","title":{"rendered":"Ariana Grande created emotional \u2018triggers\u2019 to avoid her own \u2018pain\u2019 during Wicked \u2013 The Irish News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Popstar Ariana Grande has said she invented \u201ctriggers\u201d to avoid \u201creferencing\u201d her own \u201cpain\u201d during emotional scenes in Wicked: For Good.<\/p>\n

Grande, 32, portrays Glinda in the two-part film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical Wicked, alongside Cynthia Erivo and Jonathan Bailey, a role which has earned her an Oscar nomination.<\/p>\n

The singer and actress spoke about some of the more emotional scenes she performed in the recently released sequel, Wicked: For Good, adding that some of the film\u2019s themes felt \u201cadjacent\u201d to her life.<\/p>\n

\"CynthiaCynthia Erivo (left) and Ariana Grande at the European premiere of Wicked: For Good, at Cineworld Leicester Square in London (Jonathan Brady\/PA) <\/p>\n

Speaking to actor Adam Sandler on Variety\u2019s Actors on Actors, Grande said: \u201cI\u2019m a crier in life, but it\u2019s not as easy when you\u2019re performing. It\u2019s not a party trick.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI invented triggers for Glinda so that I didn\u2019t have to touch on my own, because certain themes in this film are so adjacent to my life.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had to design her pain so I didn\u2019t need to reference my own.\u201d<\/p>\n

The sequel picks up where the first film left off, covering the years after green witch Elphaba (Erivo) parted ways with her friend Glinda (Grande), and demonised by those in Oz who referred to her as The Wicked Witch Of The West, as she is known in L Frank Baum\u2019s novel about the fantastical world.<\/p>\n

One of the scenes in the film, which moved Sandler, was when Boq, a Munchkin man played by Ethan Slater, was transformed by Elphaba into the Tin Man, in an attempt to save his life after a failed spell cast by Nessarose Thropp (Marissa Bode) nearly killed him.<\/p>\n

Grande said: \u201cIt\u2019s a very painful moment and it\u2019s performed beautifully.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s so important to see these humanising moments for these villains, these terrible people. That\u2019s the beautiful thing about Wicked, it shows how perpetrators of evilness were once victims themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"ArianaAriana Grande said she is a crier in life (Doug Peters\/PA) <\/p>\n

Grande is also known for her popstar career, with hit songs such as Problem, Thank U Next, and 7 Rings, and has two Grammys to her name.<\/p>\n

She rose to fame after starring in the hit Nickelodeon series Victorious and its spin-off Sam and Cat. Her music career took off in 2013 after the release of her debut album, Yours Truly.<\/p>\n

She will set off on her The Eternal Sunshine tour in June, with performances scheduled in Los Angeles, New York, Boston, Chicago and Montreal before wrapping up with five shows at London\u2019s O2 arena in August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Popstar Ariana Grande has said she invented \u201ctriggers\u201d to avoid \u201creferencing\u201d her own \u201cpain\u201d during emotional scenes in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268],"tags":[23349,434,69400,18,117,597,19,17,337,19498,1294,23351,69401],"class_list":{"0":"post-217527","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-ariana-grande","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-cynthia-erivo","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-film","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-music","17":"tag-showbiz","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-wicked","20":"tag-wicked-for-good"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115669288351882167","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}