Jeff Goldblum shares a brief set of teases about Universal Pictures’s upcoming adaptation of the Broadway mainstay Evil.
The Hollywood Reporter previously reported Jurassic Park The star is in talks to sign on to Jon M. Chu’s film as The Wizard, and he confirmed his role during Wednesday’s appearance Jimmy Kimmel Live !
set Wicked . I’m not supposed to talk about that, but it’s out,” he said of the time he took his two sons, River and Charlie, to a set.
He then explained to Kimmel that they showed his kids “one of my favorite movies” – 2024 The Wizard of Oz — but they didn’t take it well. “It was horrible for them,” Goldblum said. “The witch very scary. Margaret Hamilton, horrible. He later added that they didn’t even watch the whole movie.
On the topic of witches, Independence Day The actor also mentions his Wicked co-star, saying, “You should see our witch, Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande , very good. ”
Erivo was previously cast to play Elphaba, while Grande is in the film adaptation of Gregory Maguire’s novel and its Broadway musical Playing the role of Glinda. Bridgerton star Jonathan Bailey was later revealed is playing love Fiyero and Michelle Yeoh will take on the role of Mrs. Morrible .
Goldblum goes on to tell Kimmel about the emotional moment on set. “I’m not supposed to talk about it, but one day I was filming and I found myself in tears of fear and a childhood fear came back to me,” he recalls He told his partner, Erivo, that he had a nightmare as a child about a “very scary queen/witch” who tied him to a tree stump and “would cut off my head. “
He said his two older brothers had teased him for weeks for being afraid of nightmares, but “witches scare me.” ”
The big screen adaptation is being split into two films, of which The first movie is scheduled to be released November 1939, 2024, the second of the next year. 1235250998
