Ariana Grande is unable to speak about her function in Depraved amid the continued SAG-AFTRA strike. However she can speak about her new tattoo, which simply so occurs to be her character within the upcoming movie adaptation of the musical: Glinda the Good Witch.
The star revealed in a brand new interview with Attract — which predominantly targeted on the discharge of Grande’s new R.E.M. Magnificence basis line — that she’s gotten the unique Glinda illustration in L. Frank Baum’s Wizard of Oz books inked on the again of her proper hand since being forged within the Jon M. Chu-directed challenge. “This one I knew I needed to get for a really very long time,” she informed the publication, displaying off her hand.
“That is my most up-to-date one,” she continued. “I waited endlessly to refill this hand. And I assumed, ‘I’m gonna anticipate the correct factor to return alongside,’ and yeah, that felt very proper.”
Grande has many different tattoos, together with a moon and solar illustration, in addition to the identify of her canine, Toulouse, inked on the again of her left hand. Nearly the entire fingers on each her fingers are adorned with designs, too, with a cloud, a coronary heart, olive leaves, dots, a reference to the primary tune on her debut album — “Honeymoon” — and a thick coverup blocking out the phrase “Pete,” the identify of her ex-fiancé Pete Davidson, which used to preside on her ring finger.
Filming for Depraved got here to a halt on account of the writers’ strike, only a few days earlier than the challenge was anticipated to wrap. “We have been just a few days away from being achieved, so we have been SO shut,” Chu informed followers on Instagram. “It’s been very painful to place a halt to all of it however we can be again! And we’ll end correctly robust when the time is true.”
Shot simply exterior of London, Depraved can be happen over two movies, the primary of which is slated for a November 2024 theatrical launch. As Glinda, Grande will star reverse Cynthia Erivo’s Elphaba, aka the Depraved Witch of the West, with Jonathan Bailey, Michelle Yeoh, Jeff Goldblum, Ethan Slater and extra fleshing out the remainder of the forged.
The challenge definitely hasn’t gone with out its share of headlines. In July, Grande and Slater have been reported to be relationship shortly after the “Positions” singer’s cut up from husband Dalton Gomez went public. Neither of the actors have confirmed their romance.
