What Ariana Grande & Cynthia Erivo Said About Robin Left Her Speechless

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to the Robin and Kid podcast.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Robin Bailey from Kiss ninety seven three in Brisbane.

Speaker 3 (00:09):
And she looks amazing.

Speaker 4 (00:10):
She looks amazing.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Oh my goodness coming from you. I don't think you.

Speaker 4 (00:13):
Get the four party, but wow, it's weird.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Can we talk about amazing. I've done this for years
and years. I've never been in a room like last night.
You guys got to see and feel the audience. Have
you done that yet before, because Australia is the first time.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
That was the first time for us.

Speaker 4 (00:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
It was very overwhelming in the most beautiful way.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
It was insane in the toilets, which you wouldn't have
known about. Downstairs, the original Alphaba and Glinda from the
Australian production who actually made it very famous here in Australia,
Lucy Durak and Jemma Rix were mobbed in the toilets
and I went and spoke to them and they said,

(00:53):
the thing is that with the musical, it's always the
same wherever it is around the world. You bring your
own take to it. But they were so fascinated about
the movie because you two are doing it totally differently,
So how are you going to do it. How much
like the musical is it? How much are your personalities
in these characters.

Speaker 3 (01:12):
I think a lot of our personalities are in these characters.
And I think it's not that we're trying to do
it differently. It's just I think we're trying to do
it as truthfully as possible. We know the shows very well,
we know the music very well, we know the characters
very well, and so I think both of us are
trying to honor what is there and what has been there,

(01:32):
and we're also trying to honor who we are as
actresses and as people who love these characters that we
get to play.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
Yeah, that was very important to us since the very beginning,
was finding that balance because it's soel be loved, and
finding that balance between bringing our own truths to it
and honoring the material that's been here for twenty one years.

Speaker 4 (01:51):
Finding that balance was important up there.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
Yeah, Yes, let's talk about your voices, because you sound
almost like sisters the way I think you call it work.

Speaker 4 (02:00):
I mean, yes, right.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
How did you get to that or did it just
happened there?

Speaker 3 (02:06):
It was just happened.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
Yeah, first time we sang together, we were really moved.
You moved by it because when we sing separately, of
course we sound like ourselves, but when we sing together,
it was just very strange. Even our vibratos kind of
held hands and like latched onto each other.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
You haven't said that before.

Speaker 4 (02:23):
Oh well, really we found new things to say. Oh
my gosh, it's really sweet. But that's what they do,
they hold hands.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
Yeah, your careers are so different and then look at
you like you are so close and connected. How did
that happen?

Speaker 4 (02:39):
I think because we're just artists.

Speaker 3 (02:41):
We just like decided, yeah, we're going to do this together.
Ye're going to be really good to each other and
be honest with each other. And that's how it stayed. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
Yeah, what do you want people to get from this movie?

Speaker 3 (02:52):
That difference is only another way to connect to you,
That difference isn't something to be afraid of, but something
to be said, celebrated, That there's room for empathy, that
there's room for change. There needs to be, Yes, there
must be.

Speaker 4 (03:06):
It's never too late to look outside of yourself.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
It's never too late to finally look in the mirror
and say, oh, I do need to clock myself and
change that about my behavior, about who I am, about
the way I judge the way I see others that
are from a different path.

Speaker 4 (03:21):
It's never too late to change that.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
And I think the way that this movie inspires empathy
and for people to look within, that's a really beautiful
thing to say, and we hope that that's what people do.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
What was your favorite moment? There would have been so many? Ever, well, sure.

Speaker 4 (03:41):
I don't know. I mean, I mean, it's not possible
to answer that because.

Speaker 3 (03:45):
We I mean, there's a few we had.

Speaker 4 (03:48):
It was a year and a half of just like
such sea.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
But was there someone where you kind of pinched you?

Speaker 3 (03:54):
I do think, you know what, I will say that
the moment in the oz dust together is a really
special moment.

Speaker 4 (04:01):
I think so too.

Speaker 3 (04:02):
I think it was a really good moment for us,
like a really like a moment of grounding and a
moment of connecting and it felt really like intimate. I
think that was a good moment for us.

Speaker 4 (04:12):
That was a very special one.

Speaker 3 (04:14):
Yeah, but we had many, but we had so many, many,
many and all of them together.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (04:18):
Yeah, Yeah, we had so many beautiful ones together.

Speaker 3 (04:21):
Yeah, we had Like I I loved bearing witness to
her doing popular I just had the best time sort
of following around and.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
Mate, it's okay, but the Wizard and I'm not I'm
not there for that, so can I just am I
allowed to put that in there? Yes, I wasn't even there,
but that was my best time the Wizard And are
you kidding?

Speaker 4 (04:46):
I mean it's hard, it's impossible to pick.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
They're winding me up. You guys are amazing. I could
not sleep last night. I was just so buzzing from it.
So thank you so much. Thank you let the world
love it as much as Sydney did last Thank you
for being very It's Robin and kir on Brisbane's Kiss
ninety seven three.