Wicked‘s Massive Runtime Cut a Scene We Only Glimpsed in the Trailers

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As Wicked continues to interruption container bureau records, fans of Universal Pictures’ philharmonic film starring Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo person been combing done its trailers, intent connected uncovering each azygous Easter egg. Most notably, there’s a changeable of the champion person duo sitting among flowers that has near galore wondering if it takes spot successful Wicked Part Two.

Bowen Yang, who plays the scene-stealing quality Pfannee, recently chatted with Trisha Paytas connected the Just Trish podcast. There, helium admitted Pfannee—the archetypal film’s bestie comedic relief—will instrumentality successful the 2nd installment. While connected the taxable of Part Two and beyond, the Saturday Night Live prima mentioned that Ethan Slater, who plays Boq, is secretly swole—and we were expected to spot him and Fiyero (Jonathan Bailey) vie for Galinda’s affections betwixt the sequences of “Popular” and “I’m Not That Girl.”

“Between those scenes, they changeable a full montage conscionable to amusement the assemblage that these are each friends now: Fiyero, Galinda, Elphaba, Nessa, and Boq, the 5 of them moving around, hanging out,” Yang revealed of scenes showing the friends bonding portion the guys peacock. “The crushed wherefore Elphaba has each those poppies is due to the fact that they chopped a happening wherever they’re successful a poppy tract and they prime flowers and they’re laughing, having a large time.” That did consciousness a spot abrupt successful the film, that abruptly everyone was chill with 1 another.

Yang continued, “There was 1 moment, and determination were paparazzi shots of this, due to the fact that they had to sprout successful a parkland successful London of them hanging out, wherever it’s Boq and Fiyero, Jonathan Bailey and Ethan Slater, ripping their shirts off. And truthful you were expected to spot Jonathan Bailey successful his afloat shirtless glory, similar flexing.” He told Paytas, who was each of america successful that infinitesimal wishing the movie was 3 hours and didn’t chopped that out. “And past Boq, successful the communicative of the movie, being insecure, and wanting to look blistery too, and instrumentality his garment off. But past it’s like, ‘wait, Ethan’s got a large body’…” helium said.

It seems fans missed retired but here’s hoping we get chopped scenes successful the Wicked Part One location release. Watch the full speech below:

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