00:00That was funny. Thank you.
00:03Welcome to Ms. Mojo.
00:05And today, we're counting down our picks for the best and funniest bloopers,
00:09alternate takes, and behind-the-scenes footage from this blockbusting movie musical.
00:13Did they have brains or knowledge?
00:15Well, actually...
00:16Don't make me laugh.
00:17Glinda makes her entrance.
00:19In the first scene, Glinda joins the celebration among the munchkins of Munchkinland.
00:23Let us speak now.
00:27Look! It's Glinda!
00:30It's an entrance reminiscent of her counterpart in The Wizard of Oz.
00:40Arriving in her pink bubble, the first time we see her in her ornate pink gown,
00:45she makes a huge statement.
00:47The footage of Ariana Grande's first entrance in the dress is really powerful.
00:51It's good to see me, isn't it?
00:53She's luminous, and it really feels like the start of something amazing.
00:56Footage of that day shows Grande introducing herself to the crew
00:59and fellow performers on set,
01:01fully embracing the experience of making this incredibly special movie.
01:05You say it?
01:06Say the line.
01:07Exactly how dead is she?
01:11What's your name?
01:12James.
01:13James? Okay, thank you.
01:14Ari, Glinda.
01:17Completing the jump.
01:18In a pivotal scene in the Emerald City,
01:20Elphaba and Glinda make a daring escape from the flying monkeys and the wizard's guards.
01:25Elphaba comes into her powers just in the nick of time.
01:28From a flying bird, flying gravity,
01:33and soon I'll match the Minarina.
01:36She runs and flies across a giant gap between two platforms.
01:44Cynthia Erivo actually performs the stunt herself,
01:46with assistance from a gravity-defying harness and pulley system.
01:50I knew when I was going into this that stunts would be needed,
01:53and I knew that I wanted to do my own stunts.
01:56I wanted to do the work.
01:57Even more amazing than the stunt
01:59is the clear sisterhood between Erivo and her co-star Ariana Grande.
02:03When Erivo clears the jump,
02:04Grande can't even contain her excitement.
02:07She can be seen cheering from the other platform.
02:19Exciting times.
02:21Glinda's perfume bottle.
02:22The Oscar-winning sets of Wicked were full of old-fashioned,
02:25whimsical, and downright ridiculous props.
02:28It's really a shot, don't you think?
02:31You know, black.
02:33Is this your stink?
02:34You deserve each other.
02:37This hat and you, you're all so smart.
02:40One of these crafted items was so amusing for Glinda actress Ariana Grande
02:44that she had a hard time keeping it together.
02:46The character's perfume bottle came with an extra special atomizer bulb
02:50that made a truly distracting, high-pitched wheezing sound when sprayed.
02:54We've done dance.
02:55Props and special effects.
03:00In this hilarious outtake,
03:02she insists the crew needs to hear the sound it makes,
03:05proceeding to spray it repeatedly all over herself.
03:08The wheezing of the perfume bottle
03:09has Grande gleefully cracking up after the take is over.
03:12The sound that this perfume bottle makes,
03:16I really needed to hear it.
03:17Falling off the rail.
03:23Not everyone on set could defy gravity.
03:26During the song Popular,
03:27Glinda is meant to do a death-defying walk along the railing
03:30overlooking the Shiz University quad.
03:32Luckily, most of that was achieved through CGI.
03:47But it did require Grande to balance on the railing underneath a mat to break her fall.
03:51That came in handy.
03:53Grande actually does take a spill in this behind-the-scenes footage.
03:56While she's not hurt, it's her reaction that's priceless.
04:00I didn't come close to falling off the banister.
04:02Only when we were not filming.
04:04Did she jump off the side of it?
04:05By accident.
04:06Oh!
04:08Oh, no.
04:10I'm sorry.
04:12All right, folks.
04:13Okay, folks.
04:14Everyone gets so nervous.
04:16Oh, God, I'm so sorry.
04:17She goes out of her way to clarify that she nailed the take used in the movie.
04:21The fall, she insists, was not when she was doing the actual stunt.
04:24I'm always nervous about doing anything in their heels.
04:27No.
04:27And they said, anything we can do in our bare feet, we can do in heels.
04:30We can do in heels better.
04:30Elphaba backstage.
04:32Elphaba is not exactly a character who belongs in the modern real world.
04:35There are wonders like I've never seen.
04:38It's all green, it's all green.
04:40I think we found a place where we belong.
04:42The heavy green makeup and intricate braid Cynthia Erivo wore while in character as Elphaba
04:47took hours to apply.
04:49So she couldn't exactly take it on and off between takes.
04:52It required massive patience and a lot of sacrifice as far as comfort.
04:56It will hurt you when you're taking it off.
04:57It won't hurt me when I take it off.
05:00In various backstage videos of Erivo, she can be seen walking around all the very modern,
05:06ultra-realistic trailers and equipment in her entire fantasy get-up.
05:09It's kind of hilarious to see her walking around set in her makeup, costume and totally
05:14out of character, but wearing a comfortable pair of shoes.
05:17These are not the shoes, by the way.
05:19These are just shoes to be comfortable in.
05:21I've been through.
05:22On an episode of Wicked co-star Bowen Yang's Last Culturistas podcast, he and Ariana Grande
05:27fondly remembered some of their favorite outtakes and alternate takes.
05:30So Ari is going to go, so how are you, it's been so long, how are you guys really?
05:33And then I, for some reason, made the choice to go, I've, I've been through.
05:38And we said, I've been through for two years after that.
05:42Although Yang expressed some reservations about doing bits with the star, clearly she
05:46was game.
05:47One alternate take that was eventually released sees Grande asking Yang how he's been.
05:52He responds by simply saying,
05:53Oh my goodness, how are you, truthfully?
05:57I've been through.
05:58I've been through.
05:59Oh, I'm sorry.
06:01This cryptic and dramatic answer became a go-to response on the set.
06:04Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be any trace of the infamous strawberry bush blooper
06:09yet, but maybe they'll release it by the time part two comes out.
06:12We did an ad lib where it was like, and, and, because he mentions the famine, and then
06:16what do angry people do?
06:17What do I, angry people try to find?
06:19I'm butchering this.
06:19This is terrible.
06:20And then I go, wait, I'm ruining this.
06:22It's just, he said, he said, like, a strawberry bush or something.
06:26Strawberry bush?
06:27And I smacked him laughing.
06:29Unfinished CGI.
06:31Glinda and Elphaba's frantic escape from the wizard's lair is pretty frightening in the
06:35movie.
06:35Where are you going?
06:36Elphaba, please come back.
06:43Let's just have a word with them.
06:43Once you see the scenes that were cut before all the digital effects and CGI flying monkeys
06:48have been completed, you can't quite look at it the same way.
06:51This edited clip is an alternate take of Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande racing through the
06:56halls of the Emerald City set.
07:02You can't say they're not giving it everything.
07:05Without all the effects, though, Grande's flailing arms and screeching as she dodges fake
07:09monkeys just reads as hilarious.
07:11It just goes to show how much movie magic there's still left to do after the actors do
07:15their thing.
07:21I'll get the next one.
07:27Sure.
07:28Defying Gravity.
07:29The performers of Wicked were tasked with a lot of live singing.
07:33Defying gravity.
07:34Defying gravity.
07:38Defying gravity.
07:40Defying gravity.
07:42Defying gravity.
07:44But if you thought Cynthia Erivo was exempt from that due to her high-flying climactic
07:48number, you'd be dead wrong.
07:51Defying gravity is exactly what she has to do to perform the movie's most famous song.
07:55Attached to a huge harness and being thrown around, turned upside down, and tossed across
08:00a blue-screen soundstage, all while having to stay in tune and belt to the rafters.
08:05Director John M. Chu expresses his amazement, wondering aloud if it's ever been done before.
08:10Someone told me that everyone deserves a chance to fly.
08:17Has that ever happened in a movie before?
08:19We're wondering the same thing.
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08:37Popular Outtakes
08:38Although Galinda's big solo is chaotic energy personified, the real thing was a well-choreographed,
08:44polished sequence.
08:46La la la la la
08:50We're gonna make you pop you
08:53Outtakes and deleted scenes reveal just how much room Ariana Grande was given to riff.
08:59In her puffy pink nightgown, she cycles through all sorts of physical comedy bits with her wand
09:04and lessons on being popular.
09:06Co-star Cynthia Erivo has the biggest challenge.
09:08She has to stand there and not laugh.
09:11From the clips we've seen, she mostly succeeds, but every now and then, it seems like Grande
09:15finally got her to break.
09:17With all this improvisation, it's easy to imagine just how many ruined takes were probably left
09:22on the cutting room floor.
09:23When you got something to say, but you can't really say it, and you want to get your way,
09:27raise them.
09:36That's good.
09:37Are you excited for part two?
09:39Let us know in the comments.
09:40No, I'd never show it.
09:43I'd be so happy I could melt.
09:53I'd be so happy.
10:09I'd be so happy.
10:15Let us know in the comments.
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