This text comprises spoilers for Depraved: For Good.
Concluding the untold story of the witches of Oz, Depraved: For Good stars Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Jonathan Bailey, Marissa Bode, Ethan Slater, Michelle Yeoh, and Jeff Goldblum. Directed by Jon M. Chu, the movie is the second of two installments, the primary being final 12 months’s Depraved, primarily based on the stage musical of the identical identify, and follows the Depraved Witch of the West, Elphaba (Erivo), and her former buddy Glinda the Good (Grande) on reverse sides of Oz’s propaganda-fueled political scene.
Some of the show-stopping moments of For Good sees Erivo carry out “No Good Deed,” a quantity through which Elphaba desperately makes an attempt to save lots of her love curiosity Fiyero (Bailey) after he sacrifices himself for her escape. Based on Erivo, this second required her to faucet into her feelings greater than most of the movie’s different songs.
“I’m actually happy with ‘No Good Deed,'” stated Erivo. “It was me alone, there was no-one there […] I’m taking pictures in opposition to, actually, a blue display screen and a plinth and fireplace and rocks.“
The movie portrays her highly effective show of magic with visible results and flashbacks, however Erivo, in fact, had none of that imagery whereas filming. As such, she needed to conjure Elphaba’s emotions from inside herself. The actress defined: “The dynamism with which we needed to shoot it wanting again, and the recollections, wanting again at issues that had gone previous, none of that was there to have a look at, it’s all within the thoughts.“
“So I used to be actually happy with having the ability to do one thing that was that large, that grand, and nonetheless have the ability to hone into the sensation, the second,” she continued. Alternatively, the movie’s emotional climax, a duet between Elphaba and Glinda entitled “For Good,” was additionally a heavy second for the other cause; she and Grande sharing the tune allowed them to “obtain” a better degree of “vulnerability.”
“I feel that there’s a option to again away from the harm and ache that they each must expertise,” stated Erivo. “There’s a option to kind of keep away from it. However we ran headlong into it, and I’m actually happy with that.” She then famous that, “beforehand, Elphaba has usually been considered like a very robust character, who is aware of [herself] and may be very, very assured,” however via “For Good,” the movie was “capable of crack open her vulnerability, crack usually a softer aspect of her that hasn’t essentially been on present earlier than.“
Erivo was “actually proud” to indicate “a weaker aspect of her that has to kind of let go of issues.” She concluded: “We kind of humanized this character and made her actually, you already know, three-dimensional, somebody who… whose coronary heart actually beats. You recognize, who… who has guttural intuition, who has heartbreak and loss and grief, and… and harm and ache and love and lust, and all of these issues, and want. And we’ve been capable of kind of make that… make that actual.“
The tune, which serves as a loving farewell and mutual apology between the duo, has lengthy been a fan favourite within the play, resulting in it turning into the namesake of the movie. Depraved: For Good is now taking part in in theaters.
Depraved: For Good
8/10
- Launch Date
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November 21, 2025
- Runtime
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137 Minutes
- Director
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Jon M. Chu
- Writers
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Winnie Holzman, Dana Fox, Gregory Maguire