Wicked director Jon M. Chu has teased what to expect from Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo’s rendition of ‘For Good’ in the upcoming second movie.
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Speaking to ExtraTV on the red carpet at the Time 100 awards last night (April 24), Chu was reminded of Grande and Erivo’s performance of a medley of Wicked and Wizard Of Oz songs at the 2025 Oscars ceremony.
He said: “I still watch it. I put it on in my car on the way to work, I just want to hear it. I’ve never felt like that, at the Oscars. I just felt so proud. It was so simple and elegant. They’re the best.”
Jon M. Chu still isn't over Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo's "Wicked" Oscars performance and says them doing "For Good" will "DESTROY YOU." 😭#TIME100 @jonmchu #TIME100 pic.twitter.com/T5Entm1gNc
— ExtraTV (@extratv) April 25, 2025
When the interviewer said “And you get to do it all over again” – referring to the release of second part Wicked: For Good in November – Chu teased what audiences can expect from one of its most famous songs.
He said: “We’ll see! But yes, we get to do it. Wait until you see ‘For Good’. Wait until you see [Grande and Erivo] do that. That will destroy you.”
Regarding how it feels to be on the Time 100 list, Chu said: “It’s so nice. I’ve been in this business for a long time. The journey is long, it’s always hard. And so when you get something like this, it’s more of a nod to the hard work than anything else.”
After playing on Broadway for over two decades, Wicked made the leap to big screen in 2024. Grande and Erivo star as Glinda and Elphaba respectively, alongside other cast members Michelle Yeoh, Jeff Goldblum and Jonathan Bailey. It has made over $750million (£563million) at the box office worldwide, making it the highest-grossing film based on a Broadway musical.
Wicked received a four-star review from NME, with Nick Levine writing: “By the end, you won’t quite be levitating off your seat but you’ll definitely be enchanted enough to stream the soundtrack on the way home. Funny, colourful and full of empathy for outsiders, this film really is the Shiz.”
Chu claimed last year that sequel For Good is “more relevant” to where we are “in society right now,”: “Part Two, I will say because I’ve cut Part Two together, is a doozy. “[You’re] getting the meat. I did not know the context of where we’d be in society right now. It becomes eight times more relevant than before when you’re talking about truth and consequences of making the right or wrong choices. It’s intense.”
Erivo previously revealed that she co-wrote an original song for For Good. “I collaborated on one of the new songs, and it’s so special to me,” she said. “When we filmed it, the entire crew was in tears. I hope audiences are ready — it’s a song that speaks to the heart of who Elphaba is.”
A trailer for the sequel is yet to be released, though one did debut for audiences at CinemaCon earlier this month.