Originally appeared on E! Online
Ariana Grande is dancing through life and into her next movie role.
Ahead of audiences witnessing the reprisal of her Oscar-nominated role as Glinda in “Wicked: For Good,” the Grammy winner confirmed she will star in the animated adaptation of Dr. Seuss’ beloved children’s book “Oh, the Places You’ll Go!.”
In her announcement shared to Instagram July 15, Grande posed in the voice recording studio, hiding behind her script binder alongside costar Josh Gad. She also tagged her “Wicked” director Jon M. Chu, who will helm the movie alongside co-director Jill Culton.
Warner Bros. confirmed in a post to X (formerly Twitter) that original music from Benj Pasek and Justin Paul — EGOT winners who wrote the music for “La La Land” and “The Greatest Showman” — will be featured in the animated movie, which is set to be released in 2028.
Weeks before Grande’s not-so-grinchy announcement, E! News confirmed her first post-Wicked project will be the fourth installment of the “Meet the Parents” franchise. The “We Can’t Be Friends” singer is set to appear in that movie — out November 2026 — alongside its original stars, including Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller, who gushed about Ariana’s comedic chops.
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“She’s so talented,” Stiller told Today in an interview published June 9. “She’s so great with comedy. Can’t really talk too much at this point about the movie but the character she’s playing, she’s gonna be really, really funny and the whole engine of the new movie.”
And while Grande may be a global music superstar, she is thrilled with her return to playing characters.
“I think I love acting, I love musical theater,” she said on a November episode of the Las Culturistas podcast. “Reconnecting with this part of myself who started in musical theater and who loves comedy and it heals me to do that, finding roles to use these parts of myself and put them in little homes and characters and bits and voices and songs.”
But to her music fans, Grande confirmed, “I’m always going to make music. I’m always going to go on stage. I’m always going to do pop stuff, I pinky promise.”
