Colman Domingo will see you in Oz.
The Oscar-nominated actor has been tapped to voice the Cowardly Lion in “Depraved: For Good.” The announcement was made Monday in a quick clip shared by each the film’s and Domingo’s Instagram accounts, which present the Emmy winner hiding behind an cute lion plush earlier than the reveal.
In an interview revealed final week in Deadline, “Depraved: For Good” director Jon M. Chu performed coy concerning the id of who he’d solid for the half within the second installment of his musical adaptation.
“Man, wait till the crimson carpet when the actor who gave us the Cowardly Lion’s voice steps foot on it,” he mentioned to tease the then-secret casting. “It’ll be wild.”
He did, nevertheless, reveal that he approached the “celebrated actor” — who we now know is Domingo — by sliding into his DMs.
“I used to be like, ‘It’s not a ton of traces, however perhaps you’ve slightly time. I do know you’re busy. I’ll come to you,’” Chu mentioned about their trade on Instagram. “He was like, ‘Why the f— not, let’s go!’ After which we went forward and recorded the traces.”
Famously one among Dorothy’s touring companions in L. Frank Baum’s “The Great Wizard of Oz” and its numerous variations, the Cowardly Lion is launched in “Depraved” as a caged younger cub that is dropped at Shiz by a brand new professor after the college bars all animals from educating courses. An enraged Elphaba helps the lion cub escape. “Depraved: For Good,” which is about years after the occasions of the primary movie, will see that cub all grown up.
“Depraved: For Good” stars Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande as soon as once more as Elphaba Thropp and Glinda Upland, respectively, at a time when they’re often known as the Depraved Witch of the West and Glinda the Good. Additionally getting back from “Depraved” are Jonathan Bailey (Fiyero), Jeff Goldblum (The Wizard), Michelle Yeoh (Madame Morrible), Ethan Slater (Boq) and Marissa Bode (Nessarose).
The film will hit theaters Nov. 21.
