{"id":118735,"date":"2024-11-05T03:03:01","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T03:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/11\/05\/why-ariana-grandes-credited-under-her-birth-name-for-wicked\/"},"modified":"2024-11-05T03:03:01","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T03:03:01","slug":"why-ariana-grandes-credited-under-her-birth-name-for-wicked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/11\/05\/why-ariana-grandes-credited-under-her-birth-name-for-wicked\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Ariana Grande’s credited under her birth name for ‘Wicked’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When the Wicked<\/em> film opens in theaters later in November, you’ll see Ariana Grande<\/strong> credited under a different name.<\/p>\n

Ariana, who plays Glinda in the film, is credited onscreen as Ariana Grande-Butera<\/strong>, which is her birth name. Butera is her father’s surname; her mom’s last name is Grande. On the podcast The Streaming Service with Justin Hill<\/em><\/a>, Ari explained that it was a way of marking what a full-circle moment the movie is for her.<\/p>\n

“Technically, it’s my little girl name,” she said. “Technically it’s little Ari’s name … I just feel like this experience was such a homecoming for me.”<\/p>\n

“You know, that was my name when I went to see [Wicked<\/em>] when I was 10 years old,” she continued. “And it felt like a really lovely way of honoring that.”<\/p>\n

So far, the reviews\u00a0for\u00a0Wicked<\/em>, which hits theaters Nov. 22, have been magical<\/a>, with some predicting Oscar nominations for Ariana and her co-star Cynthia Erivo<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Universal Studios When the Wicked film opens in theaters later in November, you’ll see Ariana Grande credited under a different name. Ariana, who plays Glinda in the film, is credited onscreen as Ariana Grande-Butera, which is her birth name. Butera is her father’s surname; her mom’s last name is Grande.Read More →<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,426,427],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118735"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}