Here's Our First Proper Look at Dorothy on Wicked: For Good's Set

Bethany Weaver, the British histrion concisely glimpsed arsenic Dorothy successful Wicked: For Good, has shared behind-the-scenes photos that afloat uncover her successful costume for the archetypal time.

Wicked: For Good goes to large lengths to support Weaver's look obscured and her quality off-screen for each but a fewer seconds of its much than two-hour runtime. As successful the archetypal musical, Dorothy's biggest infinitesimal — wherever she douses Elphaba with water, seemingly sidesplitting her — is shown conscionable successful silhouette form.

But, of course, Wicked: For Good needed to formed idiosyncratic to represent the character, and she was precocious revealed arsenic 30-year-old chartless histrion and pilates teacher Bethany Weaver, who has besides been kept squarely retired of the limelight — until now.

In a caller station connected Instagram, Weaver yet acknowledged her relation arsenic Dorothy and thanked immoderate of her chap co-stars, including Jonathan Bailey, Ethan Slater, Omari Bernard and Oscar, the canine who plays Toto.

"What an honour it has been to locomotion connected the yellowish ceramic roadworthy with my chap Witch Hunters," Weaver wrote. "A immense convey you to the champion movie shaper of each clip Jon M Chu for choosing maine to beryllium your Dorothy successful this wonderfully wicked beingness called Oz.

"This has been a beingness changing experience, it's changed maine successful truthful galore ways and astir importantly, for good. It's been an grant to transportation the bequest of the superb women earlier maine who person stepped into these shoes, and embarked connected the yellowish ceramic road. I anticipation I person made them proud."

Accompanying the station are a bid of photos that yet amusement Weaver's look portion portraying Dorothy. Curiously, there's besides a abbreviated video clip that appears to amusement a country from the movie connected a video monitor, wherever Weaver's look was afloat included. Was this cut? Or was it filmed without the volition of ne'er being included?

Speaking astir the deliberate determination to support Dorothy arsenic anonymous arsenic possible, Wicked manager Jon M Chu antecedently said that it had been a conscious effort to not distract audiences from the movie's main crippled with the instauration of the Wizard of Oz's star, who lone acts arsenic a inheritance quality to Wicked's cardinal communicative of Elphaba and Glinda. Additionally, Chu had not wanted the movie to regenerate different instances of the character's portrayal — specified arsenic the legendary 1939 show of Judy Garland.

So drastic was the determination to support Dorothy anonmous, The Sun reported that Weaver was stopped from attending large premieres, portion different formed and unit were banned from pursuing oregon interacting with her connected societal media.

Not that Dorothy's deficiency of beingness appears to person wounded Wicked: For Good's success. Far from it, the concluding fractional of Wicked's two-part communicative has landed arsenic firmly arsenic a Kansas location successful Munchkinland, and already brought successful $226 cardinal globally, making it the 4th biggest opening play for a movie this year. That's bigger than Superman and The Fantastic Four, and down lone Lilo & Stitch, Jurassic World Rebirth, and A Minecraft Movie.

"Wicked: For Good has each of the large parts of the archetypal movie — opulent sets, heart-wrenching songs, the cleanable pb formed — and each of its problems, too," we wrote successful IGN's Wicked: For Good review, awarding the movie a 6/10 score.

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