Aside from the musical accompaniment and impressive costumes, what makes both Wicked movies so striking is their sets, from the famous Yellow Brick Road to The Emerald City, all of which were deeply thought out in order to bring them to life.
Before you transport yourself to Oz (or after), read on to learn more about just how the sets came together for both movies.
He told RadioTimes.com: "The second one is much more epic… we have to define Oz as a much bigger place It's telling a much bigger story in For Good."
2. The introduction of three towers in The Emerald City
View oEmbed on the source websiteCrowley said: "I really enjoy the three towers. They represent stories. The Wizard's Tower, which we saw in the first film for Defying Gravity. Then we have Madame Morrible's tower, which is the propaganda tower. And then we have Glinda's tower."
3. Glinda's apartment was one of the most complicated sets to build
The only home of Glinda's shown in the first film is her university room she shares with Elphaba, but in For Good, audiences will get a closer look at her apartment, which Crowley explained needed "a dual purpose".
View oEmbed on the source website"She's looking at her reflection and not liking what she sees. She's having a conversation with herself using mirrors. So Jon [M Chu] wanted to really use mirrors to question who she was and what she has to give up. Mirrors is hard… it's probably one of the most complicated sets we've built."
"Dorothy's house is a slice of Americana," Crowley explained. "I know it belongs in Andrew Wyeth paintings. I know its Midwestern. So I know there's a language there that I can't veer off, and you shouldn't veer off, because we have to tell you the most famous flying house... we have to land that visually without question."
5. Finding the right shade of yellow for the Yellow Brick Road
View oEmbed on the source websiteCrowley told RadioTimes.com: "Finding the yellow [was difficult] because we're inside and we're on location with it, because we're doing things practically. So the yellow on the sound stage is slightly different to yellow out on location, because sunlight [is different] to stage light. We have to use different glazes and different yellows, and it's a lot of trial and error. And we sat and looked at enormous amount of yellows!"
Except, actually 10 million were planted!
Crowley revealed: "We had to hide the yellow tulips in the field next door – three fields over. We actually planted 10 million tulips, nine coloured and one giant field of yellows."
7. Building Kiamo Ko
View oEmbed on the source websiteSpeaking of bringing that to life, Crowley said: "I knew I wanted to make the castle into a floating castle. So how do you put that into Ozian architecture and use that fantasy trope of the castles in the sky? What's our version of that? We found the battlements and the fact we could levitate the top to the base and really get away with it."
8. Elphaba's lair was handwoven
"When we get to Elphaba's lair, we understand that the mother tree of the Ozian and Winky forests in the West are so old and twisted, they're holding her like a piece of sculpture," Crowley explained.
Wicked: For Good is out in UK cinemas now.
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