“There was one moment […] of them hanging out, where it’s Boq and Fiyero, Jonathan Bailey and Ethan Slater, ripping their shirts off,” the SNL comic recalled.
“And so you were supposed to see Jonathan Bailey in his full shirtless glory, like flexing. And then Boq, in the story of the movie, being insecure, and wanting to look hot too, [takes] his shirt off. But then it’s like, ‘wait, Ethan’s got a great body’…”
With Wicked’s big stars currently doing the rounds in the lead-up to awards season, the group have been discussing a variety of deleted scenes that never made it into the finished film in the past week.
“I can’t speak for Jon [M Chu, Wicked’s director], but all I can say is, you never know,” Ariana – who just happens to be dating Ethan Slater, also featured in the scene – insisted. “There’s still a whole other movie.”
