Not everyone was holding space for Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo‘s Wicked press tour. On Tuesday night’s (April 1) episode of Watch What Happens Live, actor Ike Barinholtz said he didn’t think he would like the movie musical based on the press tour alone.
Barinholtz stopped by the Bravo Clubhouse with his Studio co-stars Kathryn Hahn and Chase Sui Wonders. In honor of their new show taking place at a movie studio, host Andy Cohen asked them questions about movies.
When the Bravo icon asked the trio to name their favorite movie musical, Wonders immediately replied, “Wicked.”
Barinholtz agreed that the Oscar-nominated film was “really good” — even though he was initially skeptical about how it would turn out.
“I was watching the press tour with them and I was like, ‘I’m not gonna like this movie,'” he admitted, referring to Grande and Erivo’s interviews leading up to the release. “And I loved it.”
The Mindy Project star then confirmed to Cohen that he “liked the movie more than the press tour.”
There were plenty of viral moments that came from the Wicked press tour, most of which were due to the way Grande and Erivo were constantly touching each other in interviews. While physical touch may make some people uncomfortable, Erivo told Drew Barrymore that she’s “used to” Grande touching her at all times.
“If it’s not, like, connected, I’m like, ‘What’s wrong? What’s happening? Where are you?’” she said in a December 2024 episode of The Drew Barrymore Show. “We walk hand in hand very often. Like, if we’re not walking hand in hand, we’ll find each other somewhere.”
“Sometimes you can’t say anything and you’re in a room and you’re like, it’s just a squeeze of a hand. And that sometimes is how she and I communicate,” Erivo continued. “We might be talking to someone, or I might need to communicate something to her and it’s just a squeeze of a hand or a pinch of the finger. Or a hug.”
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