Ariana Grande Says She's 'Forever Changed' by Her Epic Hair Flips inWicked: 'Mostly My Spinal Column' (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

Ariana Grandemight need a good chiropractor after filmingWicked.

Speaking to PEOPLE alongside costarJonathan Bailey, the singer-actress, 31, confirms that the many haughty hair flips she performed as Oz’s Glinda the Good Witch left her “forever changed.”

“I was, I still am, stiff,” she reports after Bailey, 36, asks if she got “physio involved” to toss her blonde wigs behind her just so.

“I’m forever changed in a lot of ways emotionally,” Grande says of playing Glinda, before riffing: “But mostly my spinal column. It’s not good.”

Ariana Grande in ‘Wicked’.Universal Pictures

Universal Pictures

Many of Glinda’s hair flips are directed — flirtatiously — at Bailey’s dashing Winkie Prince Fiyero upon his arrival at Shiz University, where Glinda and Elphaba are studying.

“She flossed my teeth every time she did it,” quips theBridgertonstar.

“You’re welcome,” responds Grande. Adds Bailey: “That’s why I’ve got absolute perfect pearlies.”

(Left-right:) Jonathan Bailey, Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande on Nov. 5.Brendon Thorne/Getty

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Speaking of Glinda’s hair, the “Yes, And?” singer recalls the difficulty Bailey had in inserting a flower into her voluminous wig in another scene. “There was a lot of real estate underneath,” she explains. “A lot of matter.”

“A lot of dark matter,” agrees Bailey. “And I had to put the flower [in], which actually is incredibly romantic and easy. It took about four hours of trying to find the right place to put it.”

“Yes,” says Grande. “And it really didn’t — we never found it. They cut away before it makes it in. ”

‘Wicked’.Universal Pictures

Unsurprisingly, the two costars and friends call themselves “the giggliest pair” on Chu’s set. The filmmaker “was trying to sort of herd goats,” recalls Bailey. “But that feels right for Glinda and Fiyero, doesn’t it?”

source: people.com