{"id":2436317,"date":"2026-05-29T02:48:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T02:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2436317"},"modified":"2026-05-29T02:48:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T02:48:49","slug":"cynthia-erivo-addresses-speculation-about-her-wicked-co-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/cynthia-erivo-addresses-speculation-about-her-wicked-co-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Cynthia Erivo addresses speculation about her Wicked co-star"},"content":{"rendered":"

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29 May 2026\n <\/p>\n

Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande<\/a> still exchange text messages nearly every day. <\/p>\n

\"Cynthia<\/p>\n

Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande are good friends<\/p>\n

The 39-year-old actress and Ariana, 32, starred together in the money-spinning Wicked film franchise, and Cynthia has revealed that they remain close friends, despite speculation to the contrary.<\/p>\n

The London-born star – who played Elphaba in the Wicked movies – told Variety: “I think that people didn\u2019t really believe that we were actually friends. But that\u2019s also because people don\u2019t know me very well. If I\u2019m a friend, then I\u2019m a friend. If I\u2019m not, then I\u2019m not.”<\/p>\n

The movie star insisted that the public’s perception of their friendship doesn’t chime with the reality.<\/p>\n

Cynthia – who also starred in the Wicked films alongside Jonathan Bailey, Ethan Slater, Bowen Yang, Michelle Yeoh<\/a>, and Jeff Goldblum – said: “It\u2019s very interesting, watching what people\u2019s perception is versus what the reality actually is.<\/p>\n

\n“Lots of psychologists seated at home deciding who we were, what we were going through, what we were doing and why.”<\/p>\n

\nCynthia previously revealed that she “made a pact” with Ariana before shooting the Wicked movies.<\/p>\n

\nThe actress explained that they “committed to protecting and caring for each other” through their Wicked experience.<\/p>\n

\nIn her book, Simply More: A Book for Anyone Who Has Been Told They\u2019re Too Much, Cynthia explained: “Before Wicked really started rolling, Ariana and I made a pact with each other.<\/p>\n

\n“We committed to protecting and caring for each other through this process. We hear often how female co-stars \u2014\u00ad or really, any co-stars \u2014\u00ad can sometimes let their egos get in the way until they battle each other, destroying the creative process for everyone involved. We were determined to do the opposite.”<\/p>\n

\nCynthia believes she shares a “strong synergy” with her co-star, who has become a close friend in recent years.<\/p>\n

\nThe actress – who has enjoyed significant success on stage and screen – said: “We were always looking out for each other. Our partnership was important. We shared a strong synergy, a commitment to authenticity, and that, combined with the natural connection we fostered both on and off set, allowed us to support each other emotionally and professionally.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.femalefirst.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

29 May 2026 Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande still exchange text messages nearly every day. Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande are good friends The 39-year-old actress and Ariana, 32, starred together in the money-spinning Wicked film franchise, and Cynthia has revealed that they remain close friends, despite speculation to the contrary. The London-born star – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2436318,"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":[25173],"tags":[24076,319952,40246,363487,358188,305572,350033],"class_list":["post-2436317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-ariana-grande","tag-bowen-yang","tag-cynthia-erivo","tag-ethan-slater","tag-jeff-goldblum","tag-jonathan-bailey","tag-michelle-yeoh"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Cynthia-Erivo-addresses-speculation-about-her-Wicked-co-star.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436317","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=2436317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2436319,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436317\/revisions\/2436319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2436318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2436317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2436317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2436317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}