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This Is Getting REALLY Disturbing · The conspiracy

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Speaker 1: I love her so much. So we need to talk
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Speaker 1: about Wicked, and not just the movie itself, which by
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Speaker 1: all accounts is not that bad, you know, as it
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Speaker 1: just broke box office records, So who am I to say?
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Speaker 1: But we need to talk about what has happened around
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Speaker 1: the movie and just in Hollywood in general right now,
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Speaker 1: because what the frick is going on? Shit's getting pretty
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Speaker 1: weird because there has been multiple press tours that have
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Speaker 1: somehow become more dramatic than a musical about flying witches
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Speaker 1: and talking animals and the privilege of my life. And
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Speaker 1: if you've been anywhere near social media in the past
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Speaker 1: few months or past past year, basically you've probably seen
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Speaker 1: it all the viral clips, the memes, the increasingly concerned comments,
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Speaker 1: sections and videos. So it started as excitement for a
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Speaker 1: beloved Broadway adaptation somehow morphed into whatever the heck this
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Speaker 1: There's something genuinely concerning happening here, something that goes beyond
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Speaker 1: just celebrities being weird in interviews, which there's there's plenty,
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Speaker 1: you know, celebrities pretty weird. But I feel like we're
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Speaker 1: watching in real time as Hollywood beauty standards take a
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Speaker 1: we thought we'd left behind, and the Wicked cast has
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Speaker 1: inadvertently become the poster children for a very troubling trend.
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Speaker 1: And I want to preface this video by saying that
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Speaker 1: if you don't know this, I in the past have
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Speaker 1: struggled with ED and I'm still actively recovering every day,
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Speaker 1: and I just want to say that I am not
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Speaker 1: diagnosing anyone in this video. That would be very irresponsible.
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Speaker 1: I may point out some similarities here and there where
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Speaker 1: I see some things, but I have in no way
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Speaker 1: diagnosing anyone. And we're not just talking about that specifically.
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Speaker 1: But there's some weird stuff happening, and I feel the
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Speaker 1: need to talk about it because it's just not being
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Speaker 1: talked about by the people that probably should be talking
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Speaker 1: about it, you know. And this is a children's movie
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Speaker 1: and the themes around it are good, like the movie itself,
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Speaker 1: very wholesome and great, but the actors behind it are
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Speaker 1: very obviously not reflecting what the movie is trying to convey.
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Speaker 1: So it's like this weird thing. We'll get it into it, okay,
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Speaker 1: But I just want to preface it by saying, I
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Speaker 1: the video. So first, let's set the stage with some context, okay,
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Speaker 1: because the scale of what we're talking about here is
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Speaker 1: genuinely massive. So Wicked, or as we should probably specify,
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Speaker 1: Wicked one or Part one, hit theaters on November twenty second,
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, after being in production since twenty twenty two,
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Speaker 1: and Part two, officially titled Wicked for Good, came out
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Speaker 1: November twenty first, twenty twenty five, so almost exactly a
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Speaker 1: year later. That's a lot of years in production. But
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Speaker 1: the first film didn't just succeed. It demolished expectations, making
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Speaker 1: over one hundred and fourteen million dollars an opening weekend
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Speaker 1: in the US and like one hundred and sixty four
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Speaker 1: ish million globally, and the movie has even surpassed that,
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Speaker 1: so they're doing pretty good, even though the second movie
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Speaker 1: is not getting as good as reviews. The first movie
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Speaker 1: got great reviews, but the fans still seem to like it.
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Speaker 1: There's a big fan base around Wicked too, So all
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Speaker 1: you Wicked fans, I'm not coming after the movie itself. Okay,
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Speaker 1: I don't really have too much of an opinion. It's
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Speaker 1: not like my style of movie, but I still appreciate it.
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Speaker 1: It's still I watched the first one. I haven't seen
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Speaker 1: the second one yet, but still a good movie. But
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Speaker 1: the first movie itself had about one hundred and forty
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Speaker 1: five million dollar budget, not including what was probably an
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Speaker 1: absolutely astronomical marketing budget, given that they turned every store
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Speaker 1: in America pink and green. I did my background pink
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Speaker 1: and green. Look at that. I did the theme. Ah,
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Speaker 1: I should have worn pink and greed. Whatever, dude, But
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Speaker 1: Universal was betting big on people's nostalgia for Broadway and
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Speaker 1: love of witches, and it paid off. And the first
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Speaker 1: film has a certified fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. I
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Speaker 1: think the second one has close to that as well.
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Speaker 1: In fact checked me here, Jay put it up somewhere.
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Speaker 1: So by every traditional metric, the movies have been a
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Speaker 1: giant success, which makes what happened during the press tours
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Speaker 1: even more bewildering, because while the movies were breaking records
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Speaker 1: and getting ready reviews. The promotional campaigns were breaking the
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Speaker 1: Internet for entirely different reasons. And you know, the movies
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Speaker 1: themselves are about friendship and acceptance, but the press tours
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Speaker 1: became like this masterclass in just concerning Hollywood dynamics. Like
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Speaker 1: I watched these interviews or red carpets and it's just confusion.
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Speaker 1: I have, Like I get secondhand embarrassment so bad, and
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Speaker 1: every I shouldn't say everyone, but a lot of people
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Speaker 1: feel this way. Let's be honest, it's getting weird. What
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Speaker 1: am I even watching? So the cast did spend four
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Speaker 1: years making two films, and for context, that's longer than
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Speaker 1: some actors spend on an entire TV series, and they
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Speaker 1: filmed through a pandemic, through industry strikes, through personal upheaval,
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Speaker 1: and then immediately after wrapping they launched into one of
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Speaker 1: the most intensive promotional campaigns in recent memory. And the
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Speaker 1: result is we got, you know, amazing blockbuster musicals, but
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Speaker 1: we also got whatever this is, Oh my gosh, and
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Speaker 1: I hope you will be too. And it's then the
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Speaker 1: privilege of my life. What are they we have for good?
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Speaker 2: And they now that's in like we got them on
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Speaker 2: opposite so when we hold hands, they touched.
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Speaker 1: So let's start with the elephant or flying monkeys in
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Speaker 1: the room. And that is the interviews, because never in
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Speaker 1: the history of movie promotion has so much been felt
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Speaker 1: about and felt about everything, like just everything in anything.
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Speaker 1: And I'm pretty sure I don't know the scientific answer
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Speaker 1: behind this, but I think Ariana Grande and Cynthia Arrivo
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Speaker 1: have cried in approximately ninety five percent of their interviews,
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Speaker 1: which is, you know, there's no crime for crying, but
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Speaker 1: the reasons are just like, what what are we You know,
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Speaker 1: you didn't go to Afghanistan and fight a war, you
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Speaker 1: made a movie. What are we crying about? As I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna cry my glitterolf, I'm gonna go blind from Glina.
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Speaker 3: No.
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Speaker 1: But they've cried, for example, over their friendship, which is fine.
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Speaker 1: And they've cried about the songs, which is fine. And
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Speaker 1: they've cried about crying, which is, you know, again, it's fine.
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Speaker 1: But there's just a point. I think there's like a
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Speaker 1: point where it just starts to feel very performative and weird,
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Speaker 1: like it no interviews I watch, like I feel sincerity
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Speaker 1: from them sometimes, but then you make it like two
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Speaker 1: minutes in and you're like, are these people real? Like?
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Speaker 1: Are they? I think they're still acting?
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Speaker 3: You know, the cast of Schindler's List in Twelve Years
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Speaker 3: of Slave didn't act as traumatized after filming. So what
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Speaker 3: happened on the set of Wicked? Why are they all
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Speaker 3: crying all the time? What is going on? Every one
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Speaker 3: of those cast members needs a dose of lithium with
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Speaker 3: a side of fries ariannas like age regressing in real time?
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Speaker 3: My favorite color is fine and Cynthia is trying to
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Speaker 3: breastfeed her What am I watching? Why are they even
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Speaker 3: airing this shit?
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Speaker 1: And I mean, look, I get it, long productions can
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Speaker 1: be emotional, and I'm sure extremely hard you bond with
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Speaker 1: your castmates, but this isn't just you know, we became
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Speaker 1: friends territory. This is we might need to be physically
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Speaker 1: separated for our well being territory. Because on top of
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Speaker 1: the interviews, we're also seeing a coupling of you know, emaciation,
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Speaker 1: like where they're disappearing before our eyes. So this is
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Speaker 1: not a healthy relationship. And the codependency is just it's
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Speaker 1: pretty easy to see that they have taken after one another.
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Speaker 1: But I mean back to the weird. I mean, the
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Speaker 1: finger holding incident was.
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Speaker 2: Odd, you know, but then after a while I didn't
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Speaker 2: know how to be there.
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Speaker 1: But it also highlighted that unsettling thing, and that is
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Speaker 1: the codependency that's developed between the two leads. And when
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Speaker 1: Arianna grabbed Cynthia's single finger and held it like it
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Speaker 1: was a lifeline during an interview about which is in
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Speaker 1: a fictional movie, the Internet collectively asked are they okay?
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Speaker 1: And this was coupled with the interview about holding space.
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Speaker 2: I didn't know that that was happening.
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Speaker 1: I've seen it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's really powerful. That's why I wanted it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, when a reporter told Cynthia that people were holding
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Speaker 1: space with the lyrics of defying gravity from the first movie,
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Speaker 1: and Cynthia's response was like an immediate emotional response and
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Speaker 1: like the tears like forming, as if she'd just been
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Speaker 1: told she'd won like a noble past prize for something.
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Speaker 1: And Arianna's response was to grab Cynthia's finger again, because
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Speaker 1: apparently that's their thing. But the problem with this is
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Speaker 1: also that the movie hadn't even been released at this point,
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Speaker 1: or like very few people had seen it, so no
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Speaker 1: one heard Cynthia's version of the song really and the
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Speaker 1: reporter later admitted that she'd seen a couple of posts
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Speaker 1: about the Broadway version, So the entire emotional breakdown was
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Speaker 1: like kind of over nothing. And they even said in
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Speaker 1: new interviews when they're being interviewed for the new movie
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Speaker 1: that they didn't even understand what was going on, So like,
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Speaker 1: why would you get emotional about something you didn't even understand.
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Speaker 1: It just feels fake and performative, but you just hear
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Speaker 1: it from them.
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Speaker 2: I remember in the moment asking myself, am I okay?
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Speaker 2: I was surprised because I was like, I had no
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Speaker 2: idea because I've been looking. I mean, it's been happening
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Speaker 2: on some She's like.
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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I mean I guess, I mean I guess,
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Speaker 1: Like yeah, it just doesn't It's just like, oh, we
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Speaker 1: don't understand what's going on, So let's just another weird
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Speaker 1: reaction to this, like I don't know, I don't know.
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Speaker 1: Like you have interviews with celebrities and they always capitalize
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Speaker 1: on something, whether they're faking a relationship for a movie
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Speaker 1: or you know, faking beef for a movie, Like it's
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Speaker 1: all fake. Hollywood's very fake. So when I see this.
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Speaker 1: You know, I think, I do truly think that they
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Speaker 1: are pretty close. They are friends and stuff. But it's
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Speaker 1: just odd. It is extremely you cannot say it's it's
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Speaker 1: not odd. And there might be a little bit of,
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Speaker 1: you know, if there is some sort of not eating
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Speaker 1: thing going on, it might be a little trauma response
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Speaker 1: with both of them that they've come really codependent and
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Speaker 1: in the ed world. And I'm not saying that they
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Speaker 1: have any sort of ani disorder, but we'd call these
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Speaker 1: like Anna sisters, where you just kind of cling on
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Speaker 1: to each other and you kind of hold each other
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Speaker 1: accountable for looking a certain way or even acting a
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Speaker 1: certain way. And they've just kind of melded into one person.
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Speaker 1: Like it's it's seldom I see them apart. Like they're
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Speaker 1: always touching each other. Cynthia's like fixing Ariana's necklace, like
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Speaker 1: when it doesn't need to be fixed. It's it's just
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Speaker 1: it's all just odd. But also the other bizarre part
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Speaker 1: is that it's not just isolated to the Leads, because
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Speaker 1: Jeff Goldbloom, who's also in the movie, announced that he'd
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Speaker 1: gone vegetarian because of the movie, which is fine, it's
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Speaker 1: a personal choice, but he credits a film about witches
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Speaker 1: for this dietary Awakening, and Jonathan Bailey said he needs
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Speaker 1: to take a break from acting after this. So the
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Speaker 1: entire cast seems to be treating this press tour like
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Speaker 1: they've just returned from like a literal war, not from
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Speaker 1: making a big budget musical. And even the way they
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Speaker 1: talk about the film is just overly intense. It's a
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Speaker 1: it's a musical about fake witches, and it's like, what
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Speaker 1: is going on? Like the they're so far from reality
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Speaker 1: that it's just like, this is amazing. It's the most
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Speaker 1: like precious thing in the world, and it connects with people.
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Speaker 1: It's like there's people dying. There's people dying, and not
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Speaker 1: that you always need to compare it to that, but
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Speaker 1: the drama involved in the interviews, I'm just like, it
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Speaker 1: makes me not even want to see the movie, you know,
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Speaker 1: the second one. I don't know, But every interview includes
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Speaker 1: phrases like life changing or transformative or healing an Areona
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Speaker 1: Cole to playing Glinda healing at least seventeen times that
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Speaker 1: I've counted. I really do feel healed by this, And
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Speaker 1: that's fine, you know, something can be healing, but it's
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Speaker 1: the juxtaposition. You say it's healing, and then we can
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Speaker 1: see that you are not healed. You know, maybe maybe
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Speaker 1: you're in an okay space mentally, but clearly something has
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Speaker 1: happened that has deeply affected her and Cynthia and some
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Speaker 1: other castmates where they have taking care of themselves. And
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Speaker 1: it's not just me that thinks this. The Internet itself,
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Speaker 1: predictably has thoughts something is seriously wrong in Oz. Nothing
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Speaker 1: has changed. In fact, it might be worse because it
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Speaker 1: doesn't take a rook at scientist to figure out that
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Speaker 1: something very very strange is going on with these two.
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Speaker 1: Something a right, And here's kind of where things shift
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Speaker 1: from you know, amusing celebrity weirdness to just genuinely concerning
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Speaker 1: and that's what everyone's been noticing, and that is the
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Speaker 1: physical transformations. Because it's not just Ariana and Cynthia, it's
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Speaker 1: also Michelle who appeared at the Singapore premiere and social
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Speaker 1: media went into overdrive. And I also want to say,
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Speaker 1: you know, like talking about women's bodies is it's very
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Speaker 1: like I it's not something I want to do because
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Speaker 1: you never want to judge, and like I've I've been
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Speaker 1: there a million times. I am on the internet. People
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Speaker 1: judge me every single day and I have to see
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Speaker 1: it and it's not nice. But when you're in a
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Speaker 1: certain headspace that I am going to safely assume that
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Speaker 1: these women are in, it's almost fuel, you know, fuel
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Speaker 1: seeing people seeing people say you look a certain way,
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Speaker 1: and it might sound negative, but to a not fed mind,
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Speaker 1: it's almost a challenge. So I'm almost you know, making
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Speaker 1: this video. I mean, I don't think any of them
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Speaker 1: are going to see it, but I think there is
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Speaker 1: a bit of a bit of a sickness going on.
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Speaker 1: And maybe it's not an ed, but it's it's just
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Speaker 1: that unhealthy Hollywood thing where everybody has to look a
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Speaker 1: certain way. But when Michelle appeared at this premiere, you know,
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Speaker 1: the woman who did her own stunts in everything, everywhere,
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Speaker 1: all at once, at sixty years old, mind you, she
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Speaker 1: looked dramatically different, and the reactions ranged from shock to
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Speaker 1: just genuine concern. But it obviously wasn't just Michelle, because
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Speaker 1: Ariana Grande's appearance has been a topic of concern discussion
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Speaker 1: throughout the entire press tour and press tours, and Cynthia,
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Speaker 1: who was notably athletic and strong in previous roles appeared
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Speaker 1: significantly changed, and it's one thing to you know, kind
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Speaker 1: of change your appearance for a role. But we are
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Speaker 1: seeing these women and we know because we've seen them
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Speaker 1: in previous years that this isn't what they are. What
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Speaker 1: their body composition is at is at a healthy point,
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Speaker 1: and they've been here for like a long period of time.
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Speaker 1: So it's it gets concerning. Like it's one thing to see,
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Speaker 1: you know, Christian Bale lose whatever it was, like fifty
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Speaker 1: pounds for the machinist, but then he gets back. You know,
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Speaker 1: it's not just for a role. It's it's just concerning.
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Speaker 1: But I just I want to make it so clear.
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Speaker 1: I'm not here to shame anyone or anybody's bodies. People's
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Speaker 1: bodies change for many, many reasons. But when multiple cast
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Speaker 1: members of the same production show dramatic physical changes, and
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Speaker 1: when fans expressed genuine concern rather than criticism, and when
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Speaker 1: it happens alongside increasingly erratic behavior, it's worth examining what's
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Speaker 1: happening in our entertainment industry. And the casts themselves have
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Speaker 1: been surprisingly open about the grueling nature of the production.
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Speaker 1: Both leads apparently contracted COVID during filming, and they described
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Speaker 1: working themselves to the bone because the production spanned four
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Speaker 1: years and with the lays from the pandemic and strikes.
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Speaker 1: Cynthia admitted she was secretly grateful when strikes shut down
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Speaker 1: production because she desperately needed rest. And this isn't normal.
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Speaker 1: Like when they talk about it being an emotional thing
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Speaker 1: and it being grueling, I believe them, Like I'm not
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Speaker 1: putting that down. I'm not saying it wasn't hard. But yeah,
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Speaker 1: for a Hollywood production to be just working actors literally
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Speaker 1: to the bone, you know, people are in charge of
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Speaker 1: their own bodies. But you know when there's like medical
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Speaker 1: concerns happening, which it looks like it's it's just it's unsettling.
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Speaker 1: And while the cast frames their exhaustion as dedication to
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Speaker 1: their art, what message is this sending you that you
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Speaker 1: need to physically and emotionally destroy yourself to create something worthwhile,
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Speaker 1: that this extreme transformation is not just acceptable but now admirable.
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Speaker 1: And again I have to say, you know, the majority
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Speaker 1: of people watching this are your younger people or you know,
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Speaker 1: older people that enjoy musicals and can enjoy that whatever.
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Speaker 1: But you know, it's a younger movie so it's it's disheartening,
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Speaker 1: and I've seen plenty of tiktoks where parents are literally
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Speaker 1: just concerned about their kids seeing and noticing how small
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Speaker 1: all the actors were the first movie and have gotten
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Speaker 1: in the second movie, and they're looking up to that
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Speaker 1: as if that that is the standard. But what is
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Speaker 1: really troubling is that Wicked isn't happening in isolation either.
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Speaker 1: It's like we're watching the return of something we thought
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Speaker 1: we left in the nineties and two thousands, the glorification
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Speaker 1: of extreme thinness. And for those of years old as me,
21:10
Speaker 1: do you remember the two thousands early two thousands, specifically
21:13
Speaker 1: when nothing tastes as good as skinny feels was an
21:16
Speaker 1: actual slogan people said out loud on ironically, when celebrities
21:20
Speaker 1: were praised for their discipline as they shrunk before our eyes.
21:25
Speaker 1: And we spent years and years and years trying to
21:28
Speaker 1: move past that with body positivity, movements, diverse representation, actual
21:34
Speaker 1: conversations about health versus appearance. And now it's like we've
21:38
Speaker 1: time traveled backward, except this time with better special effects
21:43
Speaker 1: and Instagram filters to make it alling worse. But the
21:46
Speaker 1: timing also doesn't feel super coincidental as ozempic has become
21:51
Speaker 1: Hollywood's worst kept secret because we're just seeing a rapid
21:54
Speaker 1: return to extreme thinness as the beauty standard. And while
21:58
Speaker 1: ozempic does in some cases, you know, help you lose weight,
22:02
Speaker 1: it's meant for people with type two diabetes and also
22:07
Speaker 1: has serious side effects that like no one talks about. Yeah,
22:12
Speaker 1: some celebrities are coming out saying like, yeah, he's a zembic,
22:15
Speaker 1: he's a zembic, but nobody's talking about the incredible muscle
22:19
Speaker 1: loss and what that does to your body with extreme
22:22
Speaker 1: weight loss, a stomach paralysis, extreme nausea, et cetera. The
22:27
Speaker 1: list goes on. It's being a bat by people in Hollywood.
22:30
Speaker 1: And I also, you know, as somebody who is in
22:32
Speaker 1: the public eye, like I understand wanting or like needing
22:37
Speaker 1: so desperately to look a certain way because you get
22:40
Speaker 1: judged every day. But it's just it's it's it's not good.
22:45
Speaker 1: It's not doing good for anybody, not for them who
22:49
Speaker 1: are the ones taking it. It's a lifelong thing. You
22:51
Speaker 1: have to take it for life, and if you get
22:52
Speaker 1: off it, you're just gonna go right back to where
22:54
Speaker 1: you were, unless you actually change your lifestyle, you know,
22:57
Speaker 1: but then you know people looking at you, and if
23:00
Speaker 1: you're openly saying, yeah, I just use it because it's
23:02
Speaker 1: easy and I'm rich and I can do whatever I want.
23:04
Speaker 1: It's just I don't know. I feel like people in
23:07
Speaker 1: the public eye do have a certain responsibility to be
23:11
Speaker 1: transparent about things, but also to you know, be somebody
23:17
Speaker 1: to actually look up to. And celebrities aren't perfect that
23:20
Speaker 1: they're probably the furthest thing from perfect. I myself not
23:24
Speaker 1: a celebrity, but I am very far from perfect. But
23:27
Speaker 1: I know what I put out there people see, and
23:30
Speaker 1: I know that I have a younger audience. Some of
23:32
Speaker 1: the time, I kind of all over the place. I
23:34
Speaker 1: have people from like ten years old, sixty years old
23:35
Speaker 1: coming to me, so hey, everybody, But I appreciate that
23:40
Speaker 1: kids are out there and what I do is impressionable,
23:43
Speaker 1: So I take it upon myself to you know, be
23:46
Speaker 1: responsible with that. And you know, at least in the
23:49
Speaker 1: two thousands, celebrities pretended to eat, you know, they'd pose
23:54
Speaker 1: with salads or talk about their jeans. But now they're
23:57
Speaker 1: just like not addressing any thing at all, you know,
24:01
Speaker 1: specifically the Wicked cast. It's like, yeah, I don't know
24:04
Speaker 1: what happened. I just like, I don't know. It's crazy. Like, also,
24:08
Speaker 1: where's where's Cynthia's finger? Let me grab that? Yeah, Like
24:14
Speaker 1: that's not even that is what the interviews are, like
24:17
Speaker 1: what the he is going on? Or worse, they're they're
24:19
Speaker 1: framing their transformations or physical transformations as like spiritual journeys.
24:25
Speaker 1: It's just it just feels like bullshit. There's even a
24:28
Speaker 1: quote from Marianna when she says, I was on antidepressants
24:31
Speaker 1: and drinking at the lowest point of my life when
24:34
Speaker 1: I looked the way you consider my healthy. And Arianna's
24:38
Speaker 1: defense of her appearance was particularly telling because she said
24:42
Speaker 1: the version of her that people considered healthy was actually
24:47
Speaker 1: when she was at her lowest point, which I totally get.
24:51
Speaker 1: I've been there, when I've been, you know, a smaller
24:54
Speaker 1: version of what I am now, and people, you know,
24:56
Speaker 1: complimenting you, and people don't realize you're in a very
25:00
Speaker 1: bad spot and that's not good. But after this, this
25:03
Speaker 1: was this was like years ago. So her solution to
25:08
Speaker 1: being at her lowest point is to become even thinner
25:13
Speaker 1: than that, so that fans are genuinely fearing for your
25:17
Speaker 1: well being. It's like you say one thing, but then
25:20
Speaker 1: you do something else. And this is kind of where
25:24
Speaker 1: we get into what I've experienced before with anorexia specifically,
25:29
Speaker 1: and that is that you hear things. You hear people
25:32
Speaker 1: being concerned or saying you look great, or you know,
25:35
Speaker 1: saying you look too thin, or saying you look sickly.
25:37
Speaker 1: You're saying this, it all sounds like good. It's all
25:42
Speaker 1: like you're doing great. Now you can't gain weight because
25:45
Speaker 1: there's concern, and it is like a fear of gaining
25:49
Speaker 1: it back. It's like it's this very unhealthy, odd, like
25:54
Speaker 1: a devil on your shoulder kind of mental disease, and
25:58
Speaker 1: it's hard to come out of. So I am genuinely concerned.
26:02
Speaker 1: And I'm again not saying that they have this or
26:05
Speaker 1: that they have intererex here or needing to sort or
26:07
Speaker 1: anything like that, but from what I've experienced it it
26:12
Speaker 1: outwardly looks that way. And when you're surrounded by people
26:16
Speaker 1: that are kind of acting the same way as you,
26:18
Speaker 1: it almost becomes like a competition. And we see, you know,
26:23
Speaker 1: Michelle being kind of brought into this as well, and
26:26
Speaker 1: it's scary, you know, it's scary, and it's concerning. And
26:30
Speaker 1: you know, I just think about all the other little
26:31
Speaker 1: girls seeing these women and how warped their minds are
26:36
Speaker 1: going to get. Because I grew up in the early
26:38
Speaker 1: two thousand nineties and early two thousands. My god, did
26:41
Speaker 1: that warp our minds? Am I right?
26:43
Speaker 3: You know?
26:43
Speaker 1: And we're just seeing this trend come back in with
26:45
Speaker 1: everybody getting ultra thin, and it just doesn't matter, Like,
26:49
Speaker 1: even though these people are becoming thinner, doesn't mean you
26:53
Speaker 1: need to just because people are not outwardly healthy, it
26:58
Speaker 1: doesn't mean you need to anything. I think it should
27:01
Speaker 1: encourage you to be even more healthy. It should encourage
27:04
Speaker 1: you to, you know, eat the piece of cake, because
27:06
Speaker 1: life is very short, and to be honest, life is
27:10
Speaker 1: even shorter when you're not healthy, and not healthy can
27:15
Speaker 1: be too skinny as well. Because the real danger here
27:18
Speaker 1: isn't just what's happening to these specific individuals, it's the
27:23
Speaker 1: message being broadcast two millions of viewers, especially young people.
27:28
Speaker 1: And when Glinda twirls around the screen looking like she
27:31
Speaker 1: might actually float away, not because of magic but because
27:35
Speaker 1: of physiques, what does that tell little kids watching? And
27:39
Speaker 1: when the cast talks about their physical transformations as part
27:43
Speaker 1: of their artistic journey. What pressure does that put on
27:47
Speaker 1: young performers? And it's just odd because it's like Disney
27:50
Speaker 1: spent years trying to move away from impossibly thin animated princesses,
27:56
Speaker 1: and they've made strong, athletic princesses like Moana, and they
28:01
Speaker 1: gave characters, you know, realistic body proportions for once, and
28:05
Speaker 1: now this live action, you know, just like competition for
28:11
Speaker 1: being who can be thinner is just like a you know,
28:15
Speaker 1: left turn on the highway. It's just the cognitive dissonance
28:19
Speaker 1: is exhausting. I want to be sympathetic towards what's going
28:24
Speaker 1: on in their minds and the work that they've been
28:26
Speaker 1: asked to do, because you know, I keep saying like
28:28
Speaker 1: they act like they came back from a war. But
28:30
Speaker 1: you know, this amount of pressure to get the massive
28:35
Speaker 1: project out in so little time, I imagine, is extremely physically
28:39
Speaker 1: and mentally demanding. And the entertainment industry has always been
28:43
Speaker 1: pretty demanding, but there's something particularly dystopian about this current moment,
28:51
Speaker 1: and the pressure isn't just to perform well, it's to
28:54
Speaker 1: transform yourself completely, to become a living embodiment of your character,
29:00
Speaker 1: sure to make your suffering part of the narrative. Cynthia
29:03
Speaker 1: and Arianna specifically have like just formed into it. It's
29:08
Speaker 1: like when what's his face became Elvis and he just
29:10
Speaker 1: like couldn't stop talking like Elvis. It's like almost a
29:14
Speaker 1: mental thing. They've been in it for so long they
29:16
Speaker 1: can't get out of it. They're kind of trapped in it.
29:19
Speaker 1: I just I think that help is needed, you know.
29:22
Speaker 1: I really want them to talk to a professional and
29:26
Speaker 1: just figure out what's going on. Take a break. I
29:29
Speaker 1: just think, you know, press tours should be more about
29:33
Speaker 1: promoting the movie and not processing your trauma from making
29:38
Speaker 1: the movie. You know. And the big bummer of it
29:41
Speaker 1: all is that you know, by all accounts and you know, worldwide,
29:44
Speaker 1: Wicked is it's a good movie, and the second one
29:47
Speaker 1: maybe not as good. But people like it and critics
29:50
Speaker 1: love it, audiences love it. It broke box office records,
29:53
Speaker 1: and the performances are being praised. So this should be
29:57
Speaker 1: a moment of pure celebration for everyone involved. But instead
30:02
Speaker 1: we're here talking about whether the cast is okay, and
30:06
Speaker 1: creating memes about crying interviews, and debating whether holding space
30:11
Speaker 1: for lyrics that haven't been released yet as peak celebrity
30:14
Speaker 1: culture or a cry for help in the conversation we're
30:17
Speaker 1: having now about beauty standards, about industry pressure, about the
30:21
Speaker 1: normalization of extreme behavior in the pursuit of art. These
30:25
Speaker 1: are important conversations, but they shouldn't be overshadowing what should
30:30
Speaker 1: be a joyful celebration of just a beloved musical. It's
30:33
Speaker 1: not that deep, but it is like it just is
30:36
Speaker 1: now because we as humans can't ignore what we're seeing,
30:41
Speaker 1: and we can't pretend that everything is normal when it
30:44
Speaker 1: very clearly isn't. And we can't celebrate the art while
30:48
Speaker 1: ignoring the apparent cost of creating it. And I mean,
30:52
Speaker 1: Hollywood's relationship with bodies and beauty remains deeply, unfundamentally broken.
30:57
Speaker 1: I don't really think it'll ever be fixed. You know,
31:01
Speaker 1: we almost got there. I feel like we were really close,
31:03
Speaker 1: and then we just backpedaled back. We reached on the cliff,
31:06
Speaker 1: and then the rock broke and we fell down. And
31:09
Speaker 1: I think, you know, we can have all the body
31:11
Speaker 1: positivity campaigns we want, but when push comes to shove
31:15
Speaker 1: or when ozepic comes to market, we default back to
31:18
Speaker 1: the dangerous standards. And also when multiple cast members need
31:23
Speaker 1: to publicly announce breaks from their career after one production.
31:28
Speaker 1: Something's wrong, something's wrong with the system. And last, we
31:32
Speaker 1: as audiences need to be more thoughtful about what we
31:37
Speaker 1: celebrate and what we normalize. And every time we share
31:40
Speaker 1: you know, crime clips as memes without acknowledging the concerning
31:44
Speaker 1: patterns they represent, we're contributing to the problem. And for
31:48
Speaker 1: the last and final time, I am not diagnosing anyone.
31:52
Speaker 1: I'm not claiming to know what's happening behind closed doors.
31:56
Speaker 1: Maybe everyone's perfectly fine, and this is just unfortunate timing
32:00
Speaker 1: and just really weird interviews back to back to back
32:02
Speaker 1: to back to back to back to back. But when
32:05
Speaker 1: multiple people show dramatic physical changes, and when the emotional
32:08
Speaker 1: state of your cast becomes a bigger story than your
32:11
Speaker 1: blockbuster movie, and when transformation starts looking more like distress,
32:16
Speaker 1: maybe it's time to ask if we're demanding too much
32:20
Speaker 1: from the people who entertain us. Because the fact that
32:23
Speaker 1: the movie's press tour has become just a case study
32:26
Speaker 1: in Hollywood's harmful standards is an irony that would be
32:30
Speaker 1: funny if it weren't so concerning. But I mean, I
32:33
Speaker 1: would love to know your guys' thoughts in the comments.
32:36
Speaker 1: Did you like the second movie? I haven't watched it yet.
32:38
Speaker 1: Should I watch it? I don't really know. Yeah, I
32:40
Speaker 1: just want to get the word out and just be like,
32:42
Speaker 1: you're beautiful the way you are. Don't look to celebrities
32:45
Speaker 1: or influencers for inspiration on what you should look like,
32:50
Speaker 1: because most of them aren't real. Okay, there's something else
32:55
Speaker 1: going on, whether it's surgery, whether it's o zimpic, whether
32:58
Speaker 1: it's fillers, whether it's boat docks, whether it's it's just
33:04
Speaker 1: a it's a dystopian la la land that it shouldn't
33:09
Speaker 1: really exist, but it does, and just look at it
33:12
Speaker 1: as just fake. It's all fake, but it's not. And
33:15
Speaker 1: they're real people. And I feel like, especially Ariana and
33:19
Speaker 1: Cynthia and Michelle, just I just need some help, you know.
33:23
Speaker 1: I think I really hope that they take a step
33:24
Speaker 1: back and they work on themselves and they figure out
33:27
Speaker 1: mentally what matters most, and that is their health. At
33:30
Speaker 1: the end of the day, I absolutely have sympathy for them,
33:33
Speaker 1: but that's it, you know, it's just a this was
33:36
Speaker 1: just an anti Chris coming in concerned. But just know
33:41
Speaker 1: that you don't need to transform yourself to be valuable.
33:45
Speaker 1: You're already enough, exactly as you are. Okay, beautiful, all right,
33:50
Speaker 1: I'll see in the next video. I hope you enjoyed.
33:53
Speaker 1: I don't know if you'd enjoy this video today, but
33:55
Speaker 1: you know, let me know if you want to see
33:57
Speaker 1: more kind of commentary type videos, or if you just
33:59
Speaker 1: rather me shut up and unbox some stuff. But anyway,
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Speaker 1: I'll see in the next one, all right. Bye.