Ariana Grande addressed criticism about her voice change for her role in her forthcoming movie "Wicked" on the cover of Vanity Fair, alongside co-star Cynthia Erivo.
The Grammy-winner actor said, “There is a part of the world that isn’t familiar with what it takes to transform your voice, whether it’s singing or taking on a different dialect for a role or doing a character voice for something.
Grande also called out the double standard that exists when a male actor can alter his voice for a role.
“When it’s a male actor that does it, it’s acclaimed,” Grande said.
“There are definitely jokes that are made as well, but it’s always after being led with praise: ‘Oh, wow, he was so lost in the role.’ And that’s just a part of the job, really.
“Tale as old as time being a woman in this industry,” she added. “You are treated differently, and you are under a microscope in a way that some people aren’t.”
Having lived most of her life in the spotlight, Grande is used to the unpredictable twists of fame.
She told the outlet: “The back-and-forth throughout the course of my career has been really hard to navigate mentally,” she says. “I was this approachable, funny redhead on Nickelodeon and everyone liked me. And then I had one too many hit records, and everyone decided that I was an evil diva. And then other terrible things happened, and all of a sudden I was this hero and this victim.”