Wicked: For Good screenwriter Winnie Holzman wanted to give Elphaba and Fiyero a sexier cinematic reunion than what fans have come to expect from the Broadway version.

“What’s sexy to me is anticipation, to quote Carly Simon,” Holzman, 71, said in an interview with Variety published on Wednesday, November 26. “And that’s what that is, that’s the build up. It’s really going to happen.”

In the stage adaptation, which serves as inspiration for the film, Elphaba and Fiyero declare their love for one another in their musical duet “As Long As You’re Mine.” In the number, the pair are intertwined as they sing.

Holzman — who wrote the script for both the Broadway and movie adaptations — wanted to do something a little different for the big screen. In the film version, Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo) an

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