Paul Tazewell

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Fresh Air · Best Of: George Clooney / Costume Designer Paul Tazewell · 6 Dec 2025 podcast

So I wanted to relay that with her silhouette, but also to show the weathering of her garment.

So it's the same cape that we saw at the end of Wicked Part One in Defying Gravity.

the lining has come out of it, it's starting to fray, and it just adds to the texture of who she is.

The same with her coat, the sweeping coat that she's upcycled from a raincoat, but the idea that she has taken just a few things into the forest, and then she's recreating herself as this heroic image, paired with the pants that we have and also

her knee-high boots.

So, you know, in setting that up, I'm making choices about what is the silhouette going to be?

How does it potentially align or become nostalgic of the 1939 film and that Wicked Witch of the West?

So that we're always threading, you know, all of these ideas of the Wizard of Oz and Oz, you know, just the Ozian sensibility all together.

and wrapping it up in a way that makes sense and says something more, as I was saying, says something more about the characters as well.

Something happened just to my design brain when John M. Chu said that he was casting Cynthia Erivo.

And this is after looking at a number of different Elphabas, and I was actually privy to some of those audition tapes just to see where his mind was.

but to then see that he was thinking of putting Cynthia in that role.

One, I had already worked with Cynthia in Harriet, and I knew her range.

I mean, I knew, you know, I fully understood her connection to clothing, how she develops a character, but I knew that she would be able to go to a place that would use the agility of wearing trousers as a means of...

athletic expression and power.

The ability to move allowed for her to

navigate the world in a way that was more expansive than being in a skirt and jacket all the time, which is how I set her up.

I mean, she enters into the world of Shiz dressed in black, you know, and that was another part of the equation was, why does she wear black?

And there were many conversations that Jon M. Chu and I had, the director, you know, around how do we define why she is wearing black?

And I made the decision that, well, she lost her mother very early in life.

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