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"As you&amp;#039;ve probably guessed from our recent coverage, we&amp;#039;re big fans of Wicked here at Digital Spy. So when the inevitable plans for a movie adaptation of the hit musical were all-but confirmed earlier this year, we got very, very excited.  Wicked - the original West End trailer But what about the people who live, breathe and work Wicked every day? We caught up with the leading members of the current touring cast to find out their thoughts. &amp;quot;Originally that was the plan for it before the musical,&amp;quot; said Nikki Davis-Jones, who is playing Elphaba around the country. &amp;quot;It was Stephen Schwartz whose friend read the book and told him about it and said, &amp;#039;Oh, they&amp;#039;re going to make a film of it&amp;#039;. &amp;quot;He wrote to them and said, &amp;#039;Hang on, hang on, what about this musical? You can&amp;#039;t have inner-monologue, voiceover type things in, so it&amp;#039;s better that we have songs&amp;#039;. &amp;quot;And they went for it! I think a movie is so exciting - and obviously because of the Les Mis and Mamma Mia! films they work.  &amp;gt; &amp;#039;Wicked&amp;#039; tour: Nikki Davis-Jones: &amp;#039;Everyone can relate to the show&amp;#039; &amp;quot;I think it&amp;#039;ll be absolutely brilliant, and I&amp;#039;m glad they did it this way round and not the other way round.&amp;quot; Emily Tierney, who plays Elphaba&amp;#039;s rival Glinda, agreed: &amp;quot;We were chatting in rehearsals the other day and our associate choreographer said to me that it&amp;#039;s one of those musicals that&amp;#039;s written like a film. &amp;quot;You get some musicals that people talk about turning into a film and you can&amp;#039;t really work out how they&amp;#039;re going to do it. &amp;quot;With Wicked, the way it&amp;#039;s written and the structure of the show and the depth of the characters and the exploration of different characters, and the fact that so much happens in so many different places - it&amp;#039;s not all set in one place, it&amp;#039;s all over the Land of Oz. I think it will translate really, really well into film. &amp;quot;I can&amp;#039;t wait to see if it does happens and see what they do with it. I think it will be amazing.&amp;quot;  &amp;gt; &amp;#039;Wicked&amp;#039; tour Emily Tierney interview: &amp;#039;Wicked fans are the best&amp;#039; Boq actor George Ure told us: &amp;quot;It lends itself so hugely to it, it&amp;#039;s very filmic in its proportion. I think it would be an obvious thing to do, given the following the show&amp;#039;s got.&amp;quot; Fiyero actor Liam Doyle was the only touring actor with vocally mixed feelings on the idea of translating the show into a movie. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;d be great, because the story of Wicked is amazing,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;d be great for people who can&amp;#039;t go to the theatre and see it to see it. &amp;quot;But I also think it&amp;#039;s such a great theatre show and I kind of don&amp;#039;t want it. &amp;quot;I know that for certain things that happen in the show you&amp;#039;d have to use CGI for that to happen. I love that in the show it happens right in front of you and it knocks you back.&amp;quot;  &amp;gt; &amp;#039;Wicked&amp;#039; tour Liam Doyle interview: &amp;#039;Wicked was always my dream&amp;#039; He continued: &amp;quot;In a film I don&amp;#039;t know if it would have the same effect. I think the film is a good idea, definitely, but I think they&amp;#039;ve got to keep the theatre show. &amp;quot;That&amp;#039;s the one for me. Watching it happening live in front of you, nothing else can compare to that.&amp;quot; Despite their experience in the West End and beyond, all of the main members of the touring cast laughed off the idea of reprising their role in the Wicked movie. &amp;quot;I think they&amp;#039;ll probably want lovely Hollywood movie stars,&amp;quot; said Tierney when asked if she would audition. &amp;quot;But yeah, maybe!&amp;quot;  &amp;gt; &amp;#039;Wicked&amp;#039; tour George Ure interview: &amp;#039;The Wicked Witch is beyond infamous&amp;#039; Davis-Jones added; &amp;quot;Oh my gosh. Yes, if they&amp;#039;ll have me! Imagine that, that&amp;#039;d be incredible. But I imagine some Hollywood star will do it. We might get a cameo!&amp;quot; Doyle echoed: &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t think I&amp;#039;m a Hollywood A-lister just yet! I&amp;#039;ll tell you what, just to be involved with the film would be amazing. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m not asking for any miracles here. If someone let me stand in the back and be a munchkin I&amp;#039;d be alright.&amp;quot; Ure said: &amp;quot;If someone was to call me and say, &amp;#039;Do you want to be in the Wicked movie?&amp;#039; I would pass out on the spot and not believe my luck.&amp;quot;  &amp;#039;Wicked&amp;#039; tour launch in Manchester Despite naturally expressing a preference for the stage versions, the touring cast were unanimous in their praise of musical movie adaptations of Mamma Mia! and Les Mis\u00C3\u00A9rables. &amp;quot;I think what the movies did was approach the show not as a show,&amp;quot; said Ure. &amp;quot;They took the story, they took the music and the characters, but they didn&amp;#039;t try and present a musical to you, which is why they worked. &amp;quot;Also they had extremely talented casts and amazing directors.&amp;quot; He added: &amp;quot;It allows you go to a story that you love and revisit it in a totally different way, which I think is a really important thing to do.  &amp;quot;You don&amp;#039;t want to see on screen what you can see in the theatre - they need to be different.&amp;quot; Davis-Jones said: &amp;quot;I do prefer Les Mis on stage, I do. I just think that live aspect of it is so beautiful and I don&amp;#039;t think you can recreate that on film. &amp;quot;But I do think that you can go further into the story on film, which is what I liked about it. You got to see different sides that they can&amp;#039;t do on the stage, so I quite liked that.&amp;quot; Doyle said of Les Mis\u00C3\u00A9rables: &amp;quot;I think it translated really well because they did the live-action music recording.  &amp;quot;If they&amp;#039;d have pre-recorded it and tried to mime along with it, I don&amp;#039;t think it would have worked, because you can tell the emotions in people&amp;#039;s voices. &amp;quot;I think that&amp;#039;s what that film needed, and I&amp;#039;m glad that Tom Hooper did that. Spectacle-wise it was beautiful and Anne Hathaway blew me away. &amp;quot;When you think about that, you think maybe the film of Wicked could work. &amp;quot;The progressions in technology are making it more real - more like a real theatre experience than people miming along to a song on camera.&amp;quot;  Tierney also made special mention of the cast, saying: &amp;quot;I thought Hugh Jackman was just incredible. He blew me away, he&amp;#039;s an amazing actor. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s such a filmic piece anyway. The way it was shot was incredible, I thought Tom Hooper did an amazing job with it. And the scale of it, it was huge! I loved it.&amp;quot; She added: &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s really nice that they&amp;#039;re starting to make more musicals in films, because that era died away a bit. Obviously times have moved on and they&amp;#039;re finding new ways of shooting these films. &amp;quot;There&amp;#039;s so many amazing effects they can use these days. I think it will be amazing to see what they do with Wicked.&amp;quot; The Wicked UK &amp;amp; Ireland tour is now in Manchester, before visiting Dublin, Milton Keynes, Cardiff, Glasgow, Leeds and Birmingham, with further dates to be announced for 2015. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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