Originally appeared on E! Online
There's a strange exhilaration in such total devotion to "Wicked."
Just ask Cynthia Erivo, who stepped out to celebrate the musical movie Jan. 5 at the 2025 Golden Globe Awards, where she was for Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy.
On the red carpet, Erivo shared how her whole life has changed since starring in the Broadway adaptation alongside Ariana Grande — and that includes her red carpet fashion sense.
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"Green is Elphaba’s skin color, but what she wears a lot is black, so I’ve been trying to mess around with the shapes and the structure of different kinds of black dresses," she exclusively told Zuri Hall on "Live From E!: Golden Globes."
"We’ve been playing around with it and bringing green in occasionally."
And while she rocked neutrals to the Globes, Erivo, 37, added a touch of green to her long manicure.
"This took five hours," she shared of her nails. "My wonderful manicurist did it today."
READ: How Wicked’s Cynthia Erivo Defies Gravity With Her Red Carpet Fashion
Fashion aside, Erivo has been changed for good thanks to her friendship with Grande on and off set.
"There’s stuff that people don’t see when we’re off camera," Erivo explained. "Our conversations that we have without everyone listening and how we are together after the cameras shut down."
"We’re just silly sometimes," she continued. "We have our ways of making sure we can communicate without words. I love that about us. We’ve gotten to really know each other. She can tell immediately when I’m tired and I can tell immediately when she’s tired, I can tell when she’s nervous, she can tell when I’m nervous. We know exactly what each other needs. We’ve just spent that much time together and have been willing to learn each other that way and it’s just been lovely."
And Erivo isn't just proud of her own Globes nomination, but also of Grande for being recognized in the category of Best Supporting Actress, Motion Picture. Plus, "Wicked" nabbed nods for Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy and Best Cinematic and Box Office Achievement, Motion Picture, which it won.
"Now that my feet are hovering off the ground," Erivo said in a statement after Globes nominations were revealed, "I cannot even come close to properly expressing what this moment means to me."
"Not just because of this individual nomination but because I get to watch as this project and my Wicked family is celebrated too," she continued. "Being a part of this project has been a dream come true, and playing Elphaba, a woman who speaks to everyone who has ever felt like they don’t belong and lets them know they have the power to defy gravity, has been the honor of a lifetime."
