{"id":2104043,"date":"2025-10-20T18:15:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T18:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2104043"},"modified":"2025-10-20T18:15:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T18:15:09","slug":"wicked-for-good-casts-colman-domingo-as-cowardly-lion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wicked-for-good-casts-colman-domingo-as-cowardly-lion\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Wicked: For Good\u2019 Casts Colman Domingo as Cowardly Lion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0231458\/\">Colman Domingo<\/a> is off the see the Wizard. The Oscar-nominated actor has been cast as the voice of the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm5066127\/\">Cowardly Lion<\/a> in \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt19847976\/\">Wicked: For Good<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The announcement was made on the \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1262426\/\">Wicked<\/a>\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0447603\/\">Instagram<\/a> account on Monday, with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm15284871\/\">Domingo<\/a> hiding behind a lion stuffed animal before revealing himself and saying: \u201cSee you in Oz!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>View this post on Instagram<\/p>\n<p>A post shared by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt19847976\/\">Wicked: For Good<\/a> (@wickedmovie)<\/p>\n<p>Filmmaker <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0160840\/\">Jon M. Chu<\/a> recently teased that the fans would be excited when they found out who it was. \u201cMan, wait until the red carpet when the actor who gave us the Cowardly <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt3741834\/\">Lion<\/a>\u2019s voice steps foot on it. It\u2019ll be wild,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Cowardly Lion was a main character in the classic 1939 film \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0032138\/\">The Wizard of Oz.<\/a>\u201d In \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1262426\/\">Wicked<\/a>,\u201d he is the young cub Elphaba (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm7248827\/\">Cynthia Erivo<\/a>) and Fiyero (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0047332\/\">Jonathan Bailey<\/a>) rescue after Dr. Dillamond has been taken away and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colman Domingo is off the see the Wizard. The Oscar-nominated actor has been cast as the voice of the Cowardly Lion in \u201cWicked: For Good.\u201d The announcement was made on the \u201cWicked\u201d Instagram account on Monday, with Domingo hiding behind a lion stuffed animal before revealing himself and saying: \u201cSee you in Oz!\u201d View this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2104044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2104043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/\u2018Wicked-For-Good-Casts-Colman-Domingo-as-Cowardly-Lion.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2104043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2104045,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104043\/revisions\/2104045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2104044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2104043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2104043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2104043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}