Ariana Grande Covers The New Issue Of The Hollywood Reporter

Ariana Grande is on the cover of The Hollywood Reporter. The singer/actress is on the cover to promote her hit film, Wicked. Highlights from her interview are below.

On feeling like she is finally be seen in the Entertainment Industry: “It’s a beautiful thing to feel like the work that I’m doing or have done is kind of, I suppose, I don’t know, enough or louder or whatever it is. This feeling that people are seeing me — like, actually me — it’s so silly because I’ve been seen for so long, but it feels like it’s maybe for the first time and it’s just different.”

On having to audition for Glinda: “People who didn’t understand would say, ‘Oh, that’s so silly, they know how talented you are,’ and I was like, ‘That’s very nice, but Glinda requires so much. I have to be able to earn this and I don’t want it unless I’ve earned it’. It became this beautiful evolution of getting to know myself beneath it all. I was like, ‘Oh my goodness, I love this person underneath the drag.'”

On focusing on acting: “Well, I can neither confirm nor deny, but I’m blushing. I just think it’s such an important thing to stay connected to that guttural creative thing in my heart and my chest that wants to give itself over to something that screams at me and says, ‘Oh, that’s a really cool challenge.’ I have a thing, and when it goes off, I know.”

You can check out even more from her interview here.