Ariana Grande On Why She Uses Her Full Name In ‘Wicked’ Film Credits
deadline.comAriana Grande stars in the film adaptation of Wicked as Glinda the Good Witch. When audiences see the movie in theaters, they will notice that the “We Can’t Be Friends” singer uses her full name, Ariana Grande-Butera, in the film’s credits.
In a new interview, Grande shares why she changed her name for the film. “I just feel like this experience was such a homecoming for me,” Grande said in an interview with The Streaming Service. “I feel like I came home to myself in a lot of ways, through what I learned from Glinda, from Elphaba.
That was my name when I went to see the show when I was 10-years-old, and it felt like a really lovely way of honoring that.
It felt really full circle, and it just felt like something I wanted to do.” Wicked will be released on November 22 in the U.S.
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