Fans left screenings of the second instalment of Wicked gushing about being “distracted” by Arianna Grande’s major beauty blunder, but Arianna Grande reprised her role in the second instalment.
Ariana Grande returned for an Oscar-worthy performance as Glinda The Good in Wicked: For Good, the second and final instalment to the Wicked saga which started with part one last year.
The film’s enormous success earned it record-breaking box office receipts, cementing its position as one of the most popular musical adaptations.
The greatest gift of my life was being asked to join this most amazing group of people on a most creatively and emotionally fulfilling journey, wrote Ariana in a heartfelt letter in response. More than anyone else has taught me about Glinda.
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But amid the praise, the same complaints have landed on social media since Wicked: For Good’s debut on Friday 21 November. One disgrunted fan took to TikTok in a video that has garnered over eight million views to ask: “Who is responsible for Ariana Grande’s strip lashes?!”
Fans couldn’t help but agree in the comments, with one saying, “Wood couldn’t do better than this, and the budget for wicked was 145 MILLION”?
Another actress claimed that her lashes caused her to lose focus, saying, “I could not pay attention because the strip lashes were THAT problematic.” Couldn’t we at least have employed a tech for this? “?
Some critics, however, responded to Ariana’s Glinda makeup, with one revolving the camera’s attention. The user typed “I can’t believe people have vexed about this…like did you actually care about the movie?”
Others claimed that Glinda’s real character was influenced by her makeup, which she was not at all good at.
Isn’t that at the core of the point, then? One argumentation was made, and another added, “I kinda like that not everything has to be ‘perfect’.'” Glinda is all about the performance from a distance.
For Good’s many fans believed Ariana had created her own makeup. The changes in Glinda’s makeup were explained by Frances Hannon, an award-winning makeup, hair, and prosthetics artist who worked on both films.
“One of the changes that we chose going from Wicked 1 and Wicked: For Good was that we didn’t change her foundation or her eyeshadow but we framed her eyes much stronger within the density in the lashes and the stronger [lash] line,” she told @illumin_arty.
She continued, “Ari has really strong eyes, which really gave her a different quality. She matured, not it, but it did, in my opinion.
Source: Mirror
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