Ariana Grande had a heart-to-heart with Hollywood icon Nicole Kidman for the latest issue of Interview magazine, revealing her ‘tricky’ start to fame and how portraying Glinda the Good Witch helped heal her relationship with music.
The singer-actress, 32, is back on the big screen with the second and final installment of her Wicked series, but made time for a chat with Kidman for the latest installment of the Andy Warhol founded magazine.
Grande is balancing promoting Wicked with the upcoming Meet The Parents sequel, Focker-In-Law, a movie starring Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller.
She is also preparing for a massive tour, a 41 date tour that she is ‘really grateful and excited about… in a way that feels so different to me.’
When Kidman, 58, asked why it felt different, Grande said: ‘I’ve just been healing my relationship to music and touring over the past couple of years.’
Grande struggled to explain when asked for elaboration by Kidman, however she did offer: ‘I spent a lot of time redoing my system when it comes to making music. With Eternal Sunshine, that felt like a very different experience for me.
Ariana Grande had a heart-to-heart with Hollywood icon Nicole Kidman for the latest issue of Interview magazine, dishing on ‘healing’ her relationship with music and her ‘tricky’ start to fame
‘I think the time away from it helped me reclaim certain pieces of it and put certain feelings that maybe belonged to my relationship to fame, or the things that come with being an artist, in a box somewhere else, and say, “Okay. I don’t have to let go of this thing that I love. I can just put those things over here, and not lose sight of my gifts.”
‘So I’ve just been taking baby steps towards healing my relationship to music and touring, and I think my time with Glinda and with acting really helped me build the strength to be able to do that.
‘But I can’t express how grateful I am. I think it just held some traumas for me before, and I feel those dissipating, and that is such an extraordinarily beautiful thing,’ she said.
The mega-star launched her career on Nickelodeon before her career truly exploded as a pop singer.
But the star had some growing pains at the beginning of her career.
‘There was a tricky adjustment period in the very beginning, when my pop career took off the way that it did,’ she said. And I hope this doesn’t sound ungrateful, but it’s just a big adjustment when your life changes in that very drastic way.’
‘I’m so grateful to be able to do what I love. I just wasn’t expecting certain pieces of it,’ she added.
Now, Grande is working with Hollywood greats Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller.
Grande currently graces the latest cover of the Andy Warhol founded publication Interview Magazine
The star revealed she is now taking ‘baby steps’ in healing her relationship with music and touring
The latest interview comes amid a particularly busy season for Grande, who is promoting Wicked and filming the new Meet The Parents sequel
‘I’m finishing this Fockers sequel right now in New York, and I’m really enjoying this role and this cast and—’ she told Kidman. ‘It’s with the original Meet the Parents crew, so it’s Mr. De Niro, Ben Stiller, Teri Polo, and some new additions—Skyler Gisondo and Beanie Feldstein. Everyone is so incredible. And Blythe Danner’s here as well.’
‘It’s such a special experience, and I’m really loving getting to work with these people and this character,’ she gushed. ‘And then we’re simultaneously doing Wicked promo on the weekends—we just recorded a concert in L.A. So it was a little bit of bouncing around, but I feel so carbonated by gratitude and—’
‘Carbonated by gratitude?’ Kidman, who is in the midst of a divorce from Keith Urban, seemingly interjected.
‘I do,’ Grande said.
Wicked: For Good delivered one of the biggest debuts of the year, opening to a record-breaking $150million in North America and $226million worldwide during its first weekend in theaters.
The interview was accompanied with a shoot of Grande posing in a various stylish ensembles
Grande’s success has left her feeling ‘carbonated by gratitude’
Wicked: For Good delivered one of the biggest debuts of the year, opening to a record-breaking $150million in North America and $226million worldwide during its first weekend in theaters
Grande said portraying Glinda helped her repair her connection to her musical craft
The highly anticipated sequel led the North American box office on Friday with $68.7million from 4,115 theaters, a figure that includes $30.8million in previews.
Directed by Jon M. Chu, the film is the second installment of his large-scale adaptation of the iconic Broadway musical, chronicling the untold origin story of the witches of Oz.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, it now holds the largest opening ever for a Broadway musical adaptation, surpassing last year’s Wicked debut of $112.5million, and ranks as the third-largest opening of all time among musical films, behind The Lion King (2019) and Beauty And The Beast (2017).
