Will Wicked Make Ariana Grande a Movie Star? (with Vanity Fair's Richard Lawson) (Patreon Preview)
Pop Pantheon
DJ Louie XIV
4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
In a preview of this week's Pop Pantheon: All Access episode, the film adaptation of the Broadway musical Wicked is a smash hit, raking in $114 million dollars during its first weekend and earning rave reviews from critics and fans alike. One of its two leads, pop diva Ariana Grande, is also earning plaudits in her first headlining film role, even including some serious Oscar buzz.
But while many pop stars have attempted a Hollywood crossover, very few— even those with a successful film or two under their belts— have been able to turn that into a long-term successful film career. Why is that? And will things be different for Ariana?
Chief Film Critic at Vanity Fair and host of the podcast Little Gold Men Richard Lawson joins Louie and Russ to break down Ariana's performance in Wicked and what it portends for her future on the silver screen.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey y'all, DJ Louis here just dropping a preview of this week's Pop Pantheon, |
| 0:03.4 | All Access episode in which myself, Russ, and Vanity Fair chief film critic Richard Lawson |
| 0:09.3 | are discussing a little film that came out this past week called Wicked, |
| 0:13.7 | starring Ariana Grande and Cynthia Arrivo. |
| 0:15.7 | If you like this clip and you want to hear the rest of this episode, |
| 0:18.6 | plus bonus episodes of this show every single week, you can subscribe at patreon.com slash pop pantheon, click the link in the show notes |
| 0:25.6 | of this episode or subscribe for the audio only directly in the Apple Podcasts app. |
| 0:30.7 | Welcome to Pop Pantheon All Access, the podcast where we do even more over analyzing of |
| 0:35.4 | all your favorite pop stars and do other stuff too. |
| 0:38.3 | This is your host, DJ Louis the 14th. |
| 0:41.3 | And before we get into today's episode, I want to remind everybody that we have two live |
| 0:46.4 | shows coming up next week on Monday, December 2nd, and Tuesday, December 3rd. |
| 0:51.3 | Our December 3rd show is already sold out, but there are still tickets |
| 0:55.3 | available to our December 2nd show where myself, Jason P. Frank of Vulture, Billboards Jason |
| 1:01.7 | Lipschitz, and Hearing Things is Julianne Escobedo Shepard, will be counting down our favorite pop |
| 1:07.7 | songs of the year and then duking it out to figure out our collective top 10. |
| 1:12.9 | It's going to be so fun. We are currently doing a Black Friday sale that is 25% off with the |
| 1:19.8 | code Black Friday. So if you want to cop tickets to that, you can go to pop pantheonpod.com or |
| 1:25.9 | click the link in the show notes of this episode. I can't wait to see everybody there at our live shows. Today, I am joined, of course, by Russ. Hello, Russ. Hi, Louie. I will also be there and a little tidbit. So will many of your favorite pop pantheon guests. So if you want to meet some of your favorite music critics |
| 1:44.3 | and say hello or say hello to me, I would love to meet you. I love to always meet the listeners |
| 1:49.4 | of the show. I'll be there too. Hi, Louis. Good morning. Good morning. Happy Glickett day to you. |
| 1:56.1 | Thank you so much. Yeah, we are here because yet another pop girlie has gone into movies. |
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