Ariana Grande travels with a furry companion; no, not Toto, but close. The Grammy-winning pop singer — and, thanks to her film “Wicked,” newly minted movie star — shows up at our shoot hours early, ready to make friends as she meanders around the coffee station with her beagle-Chihuahua mix,

It was an obvious pair, with Mescal starring in Gladiator II, which came out on the same weekend as Wicked, but also because they’re both huge theater nerds, musical or otherwise. “I’ve seen you sing on YouTube,” Grande told Mescal, helpfully reminding us that he got his start in theater.

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Ariana Grande and Paul Mescal open up about Wicked and Gladiator II, their careers, and the art of storytelling.

Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo can’t stop and won’t stop gushing about each other during their Wicked press tour. “Cynthia is just an absolute brilliant gift of a human being,” Grande, 31, told Paul Mescal in a new conversation for Variety’s Actors on Actors issue published Tuesday.

Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo have been the toast of the town ever since they starred in the movie version of Wicked as characters Elphaba and Galinda in November

Ariana Grande has branded her recent headline-grabbing promotional tour for Wicked - Part I as "insufferable". The 31-year-old singer and actress plays Galinda Upland in the Golden Globe-nominated film opposite Cynthia Erivo who plays Elphaba Thropp.

They are two of the most anticipated movies of the year and now that Gladiator II and Wicked – or ‘Glicked’ – have both hit screens, two of the films’ stars, Paul Mescal and Ariana Grande, have sat down to discuss press tours,