Ariana Grande says she believes her 'Wicked' character, Glinda, would've 'died immediately' if she left Oz with Elphaba in a new interview with fellow SAG Award nominees for the SAG-AFTRA Foundation Conversations series.

It’s hard to imagine a world where Ariana Grande isn’t Glinda in Jon M Chu’s adaptation of Wicked, having just received an Academy Award nomination for her performance. She embodies the spirit of the character and has become so intrinsically linked to Cynthia Erivo’s Elphaba,

As a kid, Grande loved singing karaoke with her family. "I looked up to Whitney and Mariah and Celine endlessly," she says. "I think that's a large part of the reason why I learned to sing."