Cynthia Erivo isn't simply singing a brand new music within the Depraved sequel — she's co-writing it, too.

The actress behind Elphaba revealed that she labored with the musical's authentic songwriter, Stephen Schwartz, to pen a brand new monitor for Wicked: For Good in a brand new episode of Selection's Awards Circuit podcast. “We positively had some collaboration on my one," Erivo mentioned.

The actress indicated that the music could have a powerful emotional impact on the viewers. "I don't know should you're prepared for it," she mentioned on the podcast. "I imply, I really like the music and I bear in mind after we filmed it, the solid and crew have been crying. So I don't know. And I don't know if that's simply because they have been emotional that day or that's what the music does."

She continued, "I really feel just like the music could be very, very particular. I don't need to provide you with any greater than that." Although she didn't reveal what the music known as, she teased, "I’ve a sense that even the title will transfer you."

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Depraved's first half, which is at present taking part in in theaters, didn’t add any new songs in its adaptation of the primary act of the 2003 musical. The sequel, Depraved: For Good, will hit theaters on Nov. 21, 2025 — and Erivo confirmed along with Elphaba's new music, the sequel may even characteristic one other authentic music that may primarily be sung by Ariana Grande's Glinda.

Followers have been initially divided on the choice to separate Depraved into two separate films previous to Depraved: Half One's launch. Erivo praised the choice in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, noting that the additional time allowed the on-screen relationships to develop in a means that they couldn't in only one film. "You possibly can observe these ladies behind the scenes just a little bit extra, and also you get to study in regards to the two of them," she mentioned. "We've expanded on their relationship as mates. That's a extremely essential particular factor that you’ve got within the present, however right here you actually get to go along with them in that. We've bought one thing actually particular."

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In the meantime, director Jon M. Chu teased Depraved: For Good in one other interview with EW. "There's plenty of soul looking in film 2," he mentioned. "They're asking, 'Is that this the fitting determination that you just made?'"

The filmmaker famous that the film will embrace the second act's darker materials, however received't forgo the inherent enjoyable of the musical style. "There’s plenty of lightness within the film," Chu mentioned. "There's plenty of enjoyable elements. We've not forgotten about that, however there's a matureness and a nuance to it that we earn from the primary film. The second film actually will get to play with [that maturity]."

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Elsewhere within the Awards Circuit interview, Erivo confirmed that she's planning on releasing a solo album earlier than the subsequent Depraved film arrives. "It's been written. It's prepared. It's coming for you subsequent yr," she mentioned. “I really feel prefer it's fairly eclectic, nevertheless it's my voice and it's vocal-forward. So it simply form of occurred that means. My mind works very weirdly. So plenty of the, you'll hear in a few of the music, nicely, the entire music, that plenty of the background, plenty of the musical padding is my voice. So I've used my voice like an instrument, however there are flecks of soul, there are flecks of nation, there are flecks of pop, you realize. It's these items that I’ve listened to my complete life."

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