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Not everyone was enthusiastic about Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo’s press tour for Wicked. On the April 1 episode of Watch What Happens Live, actor Ike Barinholtz mentioned that he initially didn’t expect to enjoy the movie musical based solely on the press tour.
Barinholtz appeared at the Bravo Clubhouse alongside his Studio co-stars Kathryn Hahn and Chase Sui Wonders. To celebrate their new show set in a movie studio, host Andy Cohen posed movie-related questions to them.
When the Bravo icon asked the trio to name their favorite movie musical, Wonders immediately replied, “Wicked.”
Barinholtz agreed that the Oscar-nominated film was “really good” — even though he was initially skeptical about how it would turn out.
“As I was watching their press tour, I thought, ‘I’m not going to enjoy this movie,'” he confessed, referring to the interviews with Grande and Erivo before the movie’s launch. “But I ended up loving it.”
The Mindy Project star then confirmed to Cohen that he “liked the movie more than the press tour.”
There were plenty of viral moments that came from the Wicked press tour, most of which were due to the way Grande and Erivo were constantly touching each other in interviews. While physical touch may make some people uncomfortable, Erivo told Drew Barrymore that she’s “used to” Grande touching her at all times.
“If it’s not, like, connected, I’m like, ‘What’s wrong? What’s happening? Where are you?’” she said in a December 2024 episode of The Drew Barrymore Show. “We walk hand in hand very often. Like, if we’re not walking hand in hand, we’ll find each other somewhere.”
“Sometimes you can’t say anything and you’re in a room and you’re like, it’s just a squeeze of a hand. And that sometimes is how she and I communicate,” Erivo continued. “We might be talking to someone, or I might need to communicate something to her and it’s just a squeeze of a hand or a pinch of the finger. Or a hug.”
Watch What Happens Live airs Sunday through Thursdays at 10 p.m. ET on Bravo. New episodes are available to stream the next day on Peacock.
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