Wicked

This article contains spoilers from Wicked.

This article contains mention of sexual assault.

These reasons continue to be relevant inJon M. Chu’sWickedmoviesadapting the musical, which star Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba.

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This makes the green elixir far more sinister in the novel than it is in the musical.

I want it to still feel like its my skin.

“Elphaba’s green skin is therefore created through makeup instead of being created through CGI.

Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo) wearing glasses and looking concerned with a green clock behind her in the Wicked movie

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Jeff Goldblum as The Wizard looks dismayed in Wicked

Wicked adapts the Broadway musical into a two-part film, following the unlikely friendship between Elphaba, born with green skin, and Glinda, a popular aristocrat, in the Land of Oz. As they navigate their contrasting paths, they evolve into Glinda the Good and the Wicked Witch of the West.

Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba arriving in Emerald City, wearing glasses and looking concerned in Wicked.

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