Ariana Grande took singing and acting lessons for months to prepare for her audition for the Wicked movie adaptation.

The Thank U, Next singer has revealed that she spent months working with vocal coach Eric Vetro and acting teacher Nancy Banks because she wanted the role of Glinda “so badly” and had to put in the work to “earn” the coveted part.

During an interview on the Podcrushed podcast on Monday, Ariana explained why she needed singing lessons when she’s already a successful pop star.

“Glinda’s a soprano, like an opera soprano, not in the way I’m a soprano in my pop (career),” she shared. “It’s just a very different placement in the voice and I was just training it and training it because even though the notes were there, it’s a different placement and singing them completely differently so I wanted to train my muscles.”

“I would go every day and train to learn the tools that I needed to sing and to be Glinda through and through. I just wanted to know her really well,” she continued. “The very classical operatic stuff, I wanted to make sure it sounded authentic and so I trained really hard to do that stuff.”

As a huge fan of the Broadway musical, the former Nickelodeon actress begged for an audition for the movie adaptation and felt “excited and grateful” to be given the opportunity to try out.

Ariana tested for the movie three times before finally being given the coveted character. She admitted the wait was “so impossible” and the process “felt like 95 years” when in reality it only took two to three months from her first audition to being cast.

She stars alongside Cynthia Erivo, Jonathan Bailey and Ethan Slater in the two-part movie musical, which will debut in cinemas in November.

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