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 ‘Wicked’ production designer shares intricate details on Elphaba’s layer
Wicked: For Good production designer Nathan Crowley shared behind the scenes of how he found ways to expand the world of Wicked in its sequel, For Good.
The sequel follows story of Elphaba （Cynthia Erivo） and Glinda’s （Ariana Grande） choices and consequences that they make in the first film, resulting in Elphaba been declared the Wicked Witch of West. Advertisement
After being pushed away by her peers, Elphaba is forced to hide in the forest.
“In the stage show, that’s written as a grotto. It’s a hiding place,“ Crowley explained to the Variety. In his designs, Crowley notes the forests were “full of circular, rotating trees. They formed fluid shapes.“
Sharing one of his early ideas, he said that he wanted to put Elphaba in a canopy. He had a concept of a mother tree in forest of Oz where she would create her nest.
“She has to make a western journey. She has to become the Wicked Witch of the West,” he says. So the forest was to the West.
To build it he discussed it with the film’s greens department to see if they could collect wood from local forests and weave the nest together.
“We gave them a big stack of wood from greens, and then we had a platform at the right height, and we had some scaffolding and steel departments to help with the structure,” he said.
He continued, “It was a very organic set. They went about twisting and weaving all these beautiful shapes.”
The whole set up took six weeks in making with the “windows sort of fluidly got woven into that structure.”
Sharing his idea on making the Wicked Witch of the West’s bed in the nest, Crowley said that “It was a sculptural piece. It’s totally an art installation. It is branches weaving up, creating the bed. I can’t say that we knew what it was when we were making it.”
Wicked: For Good is slated for release on November 21. |
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Post time 2025-11-7 05:16:48