Cynthia Erivo spoke about her Wicked experience in the latest interview with Hugh Jackman.
The duo sat down together for Variety’s Actors on Actors interview, where they discussed about their careers, experiences and popular projects.
During the chat, Erivo revealed that they rehearsed for Jon M. Chu’s musical for four months.
The confession was quite shocking for Hugh, who thought “that was heaven”. However, the actress thought that it was extremely “delightful”.
The Wolverine actor said that now he understands “why all those numbers are so seamless and amazing.”
He shared his experience of rehearsing for one of his films, which he thought was quite a lot.
“We had nine weeks for Les Miserables and I thought that was a lot. You guys had 16 weeks.”
Cynthia explained, “When we started it was costumes, it was rehearsal, it was choreography, songs the whole lot and we really had time to sort of like dig in and find out what the arc was because we knew we were shooting all of the, at once.”
She admitted that they had to invest this much time to really understand what they were working on.
All the hardwork paid off really well as Wicked is considered as one of the blockbusters of showbiz today.
It features Erivo with Ariana Grande, Jonathan Bailey and Ethan Slater.
