Author, Gregory Maguire, said he purposely incorporated lines between the two characters that readers (or now, viewers) could see as a lesbian romance blossoming
Movie Wicked starring Ariana Grande and Cynthia Ervivo has a secret lesbian subplot in the original book, it has been revealed.
Author, Gregory Maguire, said he purposely incorporated lines between the two characters that readers (or now, viewers) could see as a lesbian romance blossoming.
This comes as many fans have noted that quotes from the book suggest that the two witches were more than just good friends.
Gregory said he “wanted to give that level of complexity to Oz” for it to be “believable” – this “included sexual orientation and sexual diversity”.
One of the scenes see Elphaba (Cynthia Ervivo) and Glinda (Ariana Grande) share a kiss. The scene reads : “She put her face against Glinda’s and kissed her. ‘Hold out, if you can,’ she murmured, and kissed her again. ‘Hold out, my sweet.’
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“…It was astounding how quickly she became camouflaged in the ragamuffin variety of street life on the Emerald City. Or maybe it was foolish tears blurring Glinda’s vision. Elphaba hadn’t cried, of course. Her head had turned quickly as she stepped down, not to hide her tears but to soften the fact of their absence. But the sting, to Glinda, was real.”
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When asked about the potential sexual tension between the characters and whether it was intentional, Maguire said: “That was intentional, and it was modest and restrained and refined in such a way that one could imagine that one of those two young women had felt more than the other and had not wanted to say it. “Or perhaps because a novelist can’t write every scene, perhaps when the lights were out and the novelist was out having a smoke in the back alley, the girls had sex in the bed on the way to the Emerald City. I wanted to propose this possibility, but I did not want to make a declarative statement about it,” he explained.
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