#facecasting

In this article, Gregory Maguire reveals that when he was writing the novel of Wicked, he used celebrities as his mental images for the characters, as so many authors do. So here's a photo comparison: Maguire's celebrity facecasts with their original Broadway cast and movie cast counterparts.

Elphaba

k.d. lang (just imagine her green), Idina Menzel, Cynthia Erivo

Glinda

Melanie Griffith, Kristin Chenoweth, Ariana Grande

Fiyero

Antonio Banderas, Norbert Leo Butz, Jonathan Bailey

Madame Morrible

Angela Lansbury, Carole Shelley, Michelle Yeoh

In the novel of Wicked, there is no Elphaba/Fiyero/Glinda love triangle. Fiyero and Glinda are never a couple.

But...

Gregory Marguire used celebrities as facecasts for the characters as he wrote the book. He imagined Glinda as looking like Melanie Griffith and Fiyero as looking like Antonio Banderas. (As they looked in the early '90s, of course.)

By sheer coincidence, Antonio Banderas and Melanie Griffith got married (and later divorced) AFTER Wicked was published!

Just like many other authors, Gregory Maguire used celebrity facecasts in his mind when he wrote Wicked!

Elphaba he imagined looking like k.d. lang (only greener, of course):

Glinda like Melanie Griffith:

And Fiyero like Antonio Banderas:

After a miserable few days, which always happens when I get anons that share a facecast or facecasts with me, I'll no longer be responding to any anon facecasts because it's not really about me and there's no real safe way to respond for me and there never has been.

I love when y'all facecast characters and enjoy doing that, it's a type of fandom engagement I hate doing personally and I don't enjoy being asked to engage with, and have said increasingly over the years, but I will always 100% support you doing it for yourself, and think it's great that others get enjoyment out of this.

But I don't. And I'm no longer going to host that part of fandom here.

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