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  •   Home > News > Entertainment

    Ariana Grande wants "a tiny mouse" to play her in a potential biopic

    The Wicked star, 32, joked she would like any movie about her career to be "a tiny, beautiful short film" that sees rodents "reenact [her] whole life".


    During an interview with Backstage, Ariana said of who she would like to see play her in a biopic: "A tiny mouse with subtitles the whole time. I would like that, actually.

    "It would be a tiny, beautiful short film with mice reenacting my whole life with little, tiny subtitles at the bottom.

    "That's the only version of it that I'm interested in."

    The Thank U, Next hitmaker teased the movie should be called Scrap This and Don't Watch It.

    Ariana also reflected on her career now that she has bid farewell to Wicked and Glinda.

    She said: "It feels like a beautiful time to put it in a beautiful book on the shelf next to the other L. Frank Baum books that I collect. It does feel like the right time to turn the page and to thankfully and proudly, gratefully let go.

    "Before Wicked, I hadn't acted in a decade-ish. My pop music career, which I am so endlessly grateful for, had taken on a life of its own, a life that I don't know I could have predicted or planned for."

    The 7 Rings singer explained her status as a pop icon made her casting for Glinda an "uphill battle", as people did not necessarily think of her as an actress - despite starring in several shows for Nickelodeon in her younger years.

    She said: "I had to do a lot of deconstructing to convince a lot of people that I could disappear into her."

    Even so, Ariana admitted she was surprised as to how much she has already achieved.

    She said: "I know I did the work so that they could. But I still feel as curious and inspired as ... the first day I got here."

    After coming off back-to-back movies with Wicked and Wicked: For Good, Ariana has conceded it would be "healthy" for her to take a career break.

    She told Vogue Japan: "I think that it would probably be healthy. I'm not used to taking breaks.

    "But I do know that I grew so much from taking space from music while I was filming Wicked ... But yeah, these past few years have been pretty non-stop. And by few, I mean 15."

    © 2026 Bang Showbiz, NZCity

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