Current:Home > MarketsWhy Ariana Grande’s Brother Frankie Grande Broke Down in Tears Over Her Wicked Casting-LoTradeCoin
Why Ariana Grande’s Brother Frankie Grande Broke Down in Tears Over Her Wicked Casting
View Date:2024-12-23 15:59:44
Frankie Grande knows his sister Ariana Grande is truly that girl.
In fact, when the Grammy winner told her loved ones she landed the role of Glinda the Good Witch in Wicked, they simply felt like dancing through life.
"So, she told me in person, we were at the Bourbon Room in Hollywood," Frankie told Justin Sylvester and Zuri Hall on the red carpet at Dorothy Chandler Pavilion Nov. 9. "I was about to perform in my show Horror Camp. And she told me in the bathroom, and we fell on the ground in sobbing tears, me my mother and my sister, and it was just such a beautiful thing."
He added, "You know, obviously, coming from a musical theater family and a musical theater background, just knowing that she was going to get to live this dream that I have watched her dream about for so long, for her entire life. It's very hard to put into words, but I'm just so proud of her."
To get your tickets for Wicked, premiering Nov. 22, click here.This, of course, wouldn’t be the first time the Summoning Sylvia star opened up about his emotional reaction to learning his sibling landed her dream role.
"She worked very, very, very, very, very hard on the audition process and she would let me in afterwards and tell me how each one of them went," Frankie told E! News in March 2023. "I remember when she told me that she booked it, we just both burst into tears together. Because it was something that she had been dreaming of her entire life."
So much so, that when the “7 Rings” singer landed the opportunity of the a lifetime, she was determined to channel all her focus into the film.
“I have never wanted something as badly as I did this,” she explained during a February interview with Zach Sang, emphasizing how much dedication playing Glinda really takes. “Everything about me, I had to deconstruct to prove to them that I could handle taking on this other person. I had to completely erase popstar Ari—the person that they know so well—because it’s even harder to believe someone as someone else when you’re so branded as one thing. I had to go all the way and strip that down.”
Read on to see every star at tonight's red carpet event...
(E!, Universal and Fandango are part of the NBCUniversal Family.)
Watch E! News weeknights Monday through Thursday at 11 p.m., only on E!.veryGood! (66979)
Related
- Seattle man faces 5 assault charges in random sidewalk stabbings
- One Park. 24 Hours.
- Tom Pelphrey Gives a Rare Look Inside His “Miracle” Life With Kaley Cuoco and Newborn Daughter Matilda
- Aaron Carter's Former Fiancée Melanie Martin Questions His Cause of Death After Autopsy Released
- Justice Department sues to block UnitedHealth Group’s $3.3 billion purchase of Amedisys
- You'll Be Soaring After Learning Zac Efron Just Followed Ex-Girlfriend Vanessa Hudgens on Instagram
- California plans to cut incentives for home solar, worrying environmentalists
- A record high number of dead trees are found as Oregon copes with an extreme drought
- Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly are expecting their first child together
- As farmers split from the GOP on climate change, they're getting billions to fight it
Ranking
- Supreme Court seems likely to allow class action to proceed against tech company Nvidia
- At least 50 are dead and dozens feared missing as storm hits the Philippines
- How to stay safe using snow removal equipment
- Interest In Electric Vehicles Is Growing, And So Is The Demand For Lithium
- Medical King recalls 222,000 adult bed assistance rails after one reported death
- Vanderpump Rules' Latest Episode Shows First Hint at Tom Sandoval and Raquel Leviss' Affair
- Do Your Eye Makeup in 30 Seconds and Save 42% On These Tarte Products
- Emma Watson Shares Rare Insight Into Her Private Life in Birthday Message
Recommendation
-
Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin to kick off fundraising effort for Ohio women’s suffrage monument
-
The Weeknd’s HBO Show The Idol Has a Premiere Date and a Flashy New Trailer
-
Allow Ariana Grande to Bewitch You With This Glimpse Inside the Wicked Movie
-
A proposed lithium mine presents a climate versus environment conflict
-
Joey Logano wins Phoenix finale for 3rd NASCAR Cup championship in 1-2 finish for Team Penske
-
Investors have trillions to fight climate change. Developing nations get little of it
-
Jessie James Decker’s Sister Sydney Shares Picture Perfect Update After Airplane Incident
-
Climate change makes heat waves, storms and droughts worse, climate report confirms