Bowen Yang Apologizes toWickedCostar Ariana Grande for 'Opening My Mouth Too Much' DuringSNLKiss

Mar. 15, 2025

Ariana Grande and Bowen Yang onSaturday Night LiveOct. 12, 2024.Photo:Saturday Night Live - SNL/X

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Bowen Yangis apologizing toAriana Grandefor a smooching snafu.

On the most recent episode of hisLa Culturistaspodcast, released Wednesday, Nov. 6, the actor and comedian — who is a cast member onSaturday Night Liveand also stars alongside Grande in the upcomingWickedmovie — expressed some regrets over her recent appearance on the sketch show.

“I really have to apologize to you in person. I opened up my mouth too much when we kissed onSNL,” said Yang, 34, to which Grande, 31, replied, “You absolutely did. I was shaking after.”

“Not in a bad way! Just in a disarming way,” she added, laughing.

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“We were dropped in,” Grande told Yang on his podcast. “It felt like what these people needed at that time. It felt like what these characters required. And I’m all for it.”

Grande marked her second time asSNLhost with a monologue full of celebrity impressions, as well as hilarious sketches where she impersonated the likes ofJennifer CoolidgeandCéline Dion.

The “Boy Is Mine” hitmaker next appears as Glinda in the upcoming film adaptation of the Broadway musicalWickedalongsideCynthia Erivoas Elphaba. Yang is also among the star-studded cast, playing Pfannee.

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Bowen Yang in New York City on Nov. 30, 2023; Ariana Grande inWicked(2024).Mike Coppola/Getty Images; Bav Media / SplashNews

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And Grande was a big source of support for Yang during the making of the two-part film, as Yang had to fly back and forth from London to New York City while filming bothWickedandSNL.

While filming in London, Yang stayed at a hotel in the city’s King’s Cross district separate from his cast mates, he revealed in a recent interview withThe New Yorker.

“This cannot sound anything but name-droppy, but Ariana Grande was reaching out and going, ‘Are you OK? Come over! Let’s just watch a movie. Let’s get you better,' " he recalled. “She was there for me in a true way.”

Referring to her friend as “badass and incredible,” Grande said the nature of Yang balancing bothSNLandWickedwas"a little worrisome” and something she could relate to.

“I understand what it feels like to travel back and forth so often and then have to perform the next day with no time for your body or mind to figure out what’s going on, and it is incredibly hard and unusual,” she toldThe New Yorker. “So I just wanted to make sure he had an ear and a hug and the support he needed.”

Wickedwill be released in two parts, with the first arriving in theaters on Nov. 22.

source: people.com