{"id":118802,"date":"2024-11-15T18:03:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T18:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/11\/15\/ariana-grande-on-snl-the-heart-attacks-she-had-while-making-wicked-the-scariest-moment-of-her-life\/"},"modified":"2024-11-15T18:03:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T18:03:00","slug":"ariana-grande-on-snl-the-heart-attacks-she-had-while-making-wicked-the-scariest-moment-of-her-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/11\/15\/ariana-grande-on-snl-the-heart-attacks-she-had-while-making-wicked-the-scariest-moment-of-her-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Ariana Grande on ‘SNL,’ the ‘heart attacks’ she had while making ‘Wicked’ & the ‘scariest moment’ of her life"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ariana Grande<\/strong> appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon <\/strong><\/em>Thursday to talk all things Wicked<\/em>, but they also spent a lot of time discussing her well-received<\/a> performance hosting Saturday Night Live<\/em> a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n

Talking about the now-viral sketch that featured Ariana as a bridesmaid singing an off-key version of “Espresso<\/a>,” she told Jimmy that it was her idea to have her vocals get “progressively worse,” adding, “It was really fun.”\u00a0 She also revealed that fans are showing up to Wicked<\/em> premieres asking her to sign poster-size versions of a photo of her from the sketch in which she played Antonio, a traumatized 13-year-old castrato<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“I’m still unpacking the emotional weight of Antonio with my therapist,” Ari joked.<\/p>\n

All the talk of SNL<\/em> led to a discussion about how Ari got on the phone and “begged” SNL<\/em> boss Lorne Michaels<\/strong> to allow Bowen Yang<\/strong> to be in Wicked<\/em> with her. “I don’t know why I thought I had any power … I said, ‘I’ll call Lorne,'” she said. “It was the scariest moment of my life. I was realizing in real time, ‘Oh, I have nothing to say and I have no reason why he would listen to me.'” But of course, it all worked out.<\/p>\n

As for Wicked<\/em>, Ari described what it was like to land the role of Glinda, which she’d wanted to play ever since she was a young girl.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen they called me to tell me I had the part, I had one heart attack,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd then they told me I was going to be playing opposite Cynthia Erivo<\/strong>, that was the second heart attack. And then I died and I\u2019m dead. And I\u2019m dead, here, and I\u2019m still dead.\u201d<\/p>\n