Jeff Goldblum and Michelle Yeoh in the slippery charm of their evil villains

With the awards season in full swing before the Oscars, the cast of the very nominated Wicked He is taking out all the stops aboard his emerald green hype. In a recent interview with Rotten tomatoesThe Wizard of Oz himself (Jeff Goldblum) and his conspirator of the right Madame Morrible (Michelle Yeoh) talked about their timely options of the characters when asked if their villains were inspired by historical figures.

Original of Gregory Maguire Wicked The novel and its Broadway adaptation by Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman represented the duo as fascists behind the sheet of the Emerald Green Facade of Oz, and the performances of Goldblum and Yeoh speak with the very appropriate attributes of the figures in power.

Talking about your collaboration with Wicked The director Jon M. Chu, Goldblum explained: “There have been people throughout human history, which, although they seemed pleasant enough, and like one of us, they use demonizing others to take and improve the Power, sometimes they are quite charismatic. Jon helped me in my entire approach. I am nothing if it is not conscientious, and I had worked on my lines and I was having a hundred ideas, in addition to all the moments that were in the script, which was delicious and wonderful. “

He continued. “And then (Jon) called Ariana (big) and Cynthia (Erito), and said: ‘We act a couple of these scenes, and if Jeff wants to change a couple of things, he just see him’ and that’s how it began. It was a type of organic approach that was full of joy and synergy.

For Yeoh, who worked with chu previously in Crazy and rich Asians As the mother of the romantic protagonist, adding nuances and complexity to the tropes of monsters, here entered an era of villain for Madame Morrible, the director of Shiz with a plan to keep the magician in power. Yeoh remembered having asked Chu: “Why do you think of me when you think of someone a little, you know … I don’t want to say evil, but a little hard. Madame morrible has an agenda, and this agenda she has shared The magician definitely.

She continued. “Because they were the only two people who were always strategies, manipulating, making things happen. And at first, you can see that Madame Morrible is an educator, so she is a breeder. And I think the trip was even worse for Elphaba, because this was the first time he felt loved, seen and heard. That’s where Jon was really brilliant when making Madame morrible to someone who really trusted and wanted to believe, because (that) means that you believed in yourself, and she took you to greater heights. “

Yeoh described how his character’s charm became against Elphaba, which he wanted to comply, then became an scapegoat when he realized the magician and morrible plans. “Madame morrible, she really is the evil witch. Both had such a precious agenda that they couldn’t let go. They would take another person’s dream so they can fulfill yours. The magician, wanting to go home, get on that balloon and fly back to Kansas. And Madame Morrible wanted her enchantment book to be open, and she couldn’t understand why Elphaba wouldn’t want the same, because she was doing it for the good of us. Jeff and I spent a wonderful moment how to give all this illusion: was it there, right, no? So that was fun for us. “

See more of Rotten Tomatoes’s interview below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vcxajohdgk

Wicked is out now in theaters and in digital. Evil: Forever Open this Thanksgiving day.

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