""It was romantic and beautiful, but a little too passionate," she explained. "Seeing that made it too hard to watch him make the choice he makes to be with Elphaba and made it too hard to make it OK that Elphaba ran off with him. It was too real that he and Glinda were actually feeling something together.""
""He likes her in a different way," she said. "This scene was too romantic, so it was like, 'Oh, we can't know that because then our brains will explode when he doesn't choose her in the end.' And then we'll hate Elphaba, Glinda, and Fiyero. So, I think it was a good cut because it was too adorable that you simply couldn't handle it.""
A filmed kiss between Glinda (Ariana Grande) and Fiyero (Jonathan Bailey) was shot but removed from the final film. Glinda and Fiyero begin engaged, though Fiyero agrees to marry her mainly to make her happy while he seeks Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo) to protect her from Oz's witch-hunt. An animal stampede disrupts the wedding and Fiyero runs off with Elphaba, leaving Glinda heartbroken before she later approves of their romance. The filmed kiss was judged too romantic and passionate because it made Fiyero's eventual choice feel harder to accept. The at-home release of Wicked in December 2024 included many deleted scenes.
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