Ariana Grande and Cynthia Eriva were “really honest as hell” about the ungodly payment
Ariana Grande and Cynthia Eriva were equal partners for Angryboth in front of and behind the camera.
In a joint interview with Diversity posted on Thursday, January 2nd. “We went over our contracts together and called each other,” Grande, 31, shared. “(We were like) ‘Did you see that? What do you think about it? Let’s get together.”
Eriva, 37, added: “We’ve both been through this – ‘What number are we doing?’ How do you feel about that?” We were really sincere. And that’s really rare. People don’t do that.”
Noting that she and Eriv are “very different,” Grande told the outlet that “her needs (became) my needs” while working on the project. Eriva repeated her words, declaring, “And her needs became mine.”
Ariana Grande and Cynthia Eriva can’t stop gushing about each other during their Wicked press tour. “Cynthia is just a brilliant gift of a person,” Grande’s Paul Mezcal, 31, said in a new interview for Variety’s Actors on Actors issue, published Tuesday, Dec. 10. “I think we tried to keep (…)
Shortly after the film opened in theaters in November 2024, false reports spread online that Grande was paid millions more for the role of Glinda than Erive for the role of Elphaba.
“Reports of a pay gap between Cynthia and Ariana are completely false and based on Internet karma,” a Universal Pictures spokesperson said. Us Weekly in a statement at the time. “Women received equal pay for their work Angry.”
This was also reported by a source close to Grande us that the rumor “started on Reddit” and was “completely false.”
director John M. Chu praised the talks on equal pay for women on Thursday Diversity an interview. “This is a modern production,” he stated. “This is what Hollywood should portray. These are co-CEOs”Angry Inc.’”
Based on the 1995 Broadway musical and novel of the same name Gregory Maguire, Angry follows Elphaba, aka the Wicked Witch of the West, and Glinda, aka Glinda the Good Witch, before and during the events of The Wizard of Oz. The story follows two women as their relationship evolves from rival roommates to best friends and unlikely rivals amid societal upheaval in Oz.
Grande and Erive’s decision to split salaries and contracts didn’t come as a surprise to fans Angry — which hits theaters in November 2024 — the pair share a strong friendship on and off the big screen. They even went viral get emotional in several interviews of their press tour.
Something Wicked is coming here – and Cynthia Eriva is celebrating! As the highly-anticipated musical adaptation hits theaters on Friday, November 22nd, Eriva, who plays Elphaba in the film, took to Instagram to share a heartfelt tribute to her co-stars, actor Ariana Grande and director John M. Chu on Friday. “This trip was (…)
“I’m so grateful and proud of how far we’ve been able to be present,” Grande said Diversity as she and Eriva shed tears in the interview. “We’ve had a lot of people come up to us and ask, ‘How are you doing?’ with a long face. And we just looked at each other and were like, we’re grateful and we’re floating.”
Eriva went on to add, “We’re having a good time.”
Angry is already in theaters and available for rental and purchase on digital platforms. Continued under the title Wicked: For Goodwill be released in theaters on November 21.
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