Gilbert Cruz

Yeah.

You don't like the guys?

And Jonathan Bailey.

Sexiest man alive.

And as someone who, again, wrote about Ariana for The Times, it seems like a lot of this film was really predicated on her character, her character arc, her performance.

What was your understanding of what she and the director, John Chu, sort of tried to do with Linda?

Yeah.

Madison, what did you think of the film?

Horrendable.

That is extreme.

Horrendable.

There are two new songs.

You're saying a musical theater song is heavy.

Yeah, I agree with you that some of it does feel heavy-handed, the sort of the present-day resonances.

But the original book, and by virtue of that, the original musical, that stuff is baked into there as well.

When Gregory Maguire wrote this in 1995, when the musical came out around the time of the Iraq War, you know, it was sort of a...

a different idea of who's in power and what are the messages that they're giving us and who are the people that are spreading what some consider to be propaganda.

So many banners in this movie.

Like, what's the banner budget?

Every scene is like, here's new banners from the sky.