Ariana Grande & Director Jon M. Chu Share Emotional Messages – Deadline

The Depraved film musical has wrapped principal images and Ariana Grande is marking the second by sharing her gratitude.

In a put up on her Instagram Tales, the “Sure, And?” singer acknowledged the crew behind the movie after principal images was accomplished.

“This was a wildly giant manufacturing with so many sensible human beings who labored so, so laborious in each division,” she wrote. “Each single individual that labored on these movies was not solely the very best at what they do however made each single day for over a yr really feel so extremely secure … sort and considerate and impressed each day as if it have been all the time the primary.”

Grande is about to play Glinda within the movie adaptation of the Broadway musical, which was damaged into two elements with the primary half set to be launched Nov. 27 of this yr.

“How one thing a lot greater than all of us may really feel so intimate and small and heat is past me but it surely begins from the highest,” Grande continued. “You made it so [Jon M. Chu]. I’ve so many tales that I can’t wait to share however for now, my coronary heart sincerely, bodily aches that I cannot be sharing ever yday with this crew anymore. Thanks to your brilliance and the various hand holds and hugs alongside the way in which.”

The director additionally shared a put up on Instagram to thank everybody concerned within the manufacturing.

“Then shut your eyes. Faucet your heels collectively 3 instances and assume to your self…,” Chu captioned the put up with the principle photograph of the silhouettes of Elphaba and Glinda.

“Thanks to the large crew and forged and [Universal Pictures] for supporting probably the most formidable cinematic manufacturing I’ve ever been part of or, frankly, ever witnessed,” Chu added. “We constructed actual Munchkinland! A multi-level Shiz College Campus! I walked and shopped in an actual Emerald Metropolis and met the precise Wizard head that moved in realtime!!”

Chu additionally thanked the forged of the musical for his or her “insane LIVE vocals,” which incorporates Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba, Grande, Jonathan Bailey, Michelle Yeoh, Jeff Goldblum, Ethan Slater, Bowen Yang, Marissa Bode, Bronwyn James, Keala Settle and Aaron Teoh.

“A lot of the yr my jaw has been on the ground and coronary heart within the clouds,” Chu continued. “Cameras started rolling right here in London in November of 2022, and now, in January 2024, our principal images is formally wrapped. Whew. Exhale. Closing my eyes. And click on. Click on. Click on.”

Following the discharge of the primary a part of the movie later this yr, Depraved Half Two has been set for launch on Nov. 26, 2025.