If you follow the road of yellow tiles until November of this year, you will discover who will play Dorothy in the second part of Wicked, Wicked: For Good. But there is something we do: It won’t be Taylor Swift.
Taking into account how busy Taylor Swift was with his eras tour while both parts of Wicked were filmed, it is clear that it will not appear in the second film. However, for quite some time there is a clear favorite for the role of Dorothy: the star of Abigail, Alisha Weir.
Rumors began last year
The 15 -year -old has already starred in the excellent vampire movie, but before that, she participated in Matilda The Musical and Wicked Little Letters. Has proven to have a promising talent, which alone makes it The ideal candidate to play Dorothy. Speculations began when Weir appeared on the green carpet of Wicked’s premiere with silver shoes, which are the original color of ruby shoes. Since then, it has been the favorite to play paper.
Weir has talked about speculation in several interviews, But he has never said that he will not play the character. For his part, director Jon M. Chu previously revealed that Dorothy will have a much more important role in For Good than the one in the musical.
“I will not say if he is a character in the second film,” he explained to Huffington Post UK in November 2024. “There is a part of me who wants everyone to have their own Dorothy. And, nevertheless, there is interaction and a certain cross between characters. So I’ll leave it for the second part“
Here is the Official synopsis:
“With the laureate director Jon M. Chu again in command of the spectacular cast of the first part, headed by the superstars nominated for the Oscar Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, the final chapter of the story never told of the Witches of Oz begins with Elphaba and Glinda distant and living the consequences of their respective decisions.
Elphaba (Cynthia Eivo), now demonized as the evil witch of the West, lives exiled and hidden in the Oz forest, leading the struggle for the freedom of the silenced animals of the kingdom and desperately trying to make the truth about the magician (Jeff Goldblum).
Glinda, meanwhile, has become the glamorous symbol of goodness for all Oz, lives in the Emerald city palace and enjoys all the advantages and comforts of fame and popularity. Under the tutelage of Madame Morrible (the Oscar -winning Michelle Yeoh), lives delivered to comfort the inhabitants of Oz with their effervescent presence, ensuring the masses that everything is fine with the magician governing. In full rise to stardom and preparing to marry Prince Fiyero (the winner of an Oliver Prize and nominated for the Actors Union and Emmy Jonathan Bailey awards) at a spectacular Oziana wedding, he lives tormented by his separation from Elphaba. He even tries to promote a reconciliation between Elphaba and the magician without any result, which ends up distancing them even more. All this will have repercussions that will transform Boq (the nominee to a Tony Ethan Slater) already Fijero forever, in addition to threatening the security of Nessarose, Elphaba’s sister (Marissa Bode), when a girl from Kansas suddenly bursts into her lives.
But, while the crowd raises its clamor against the evil witch, Glinda and Elphaba must join once again. With their unique friendship turned into the turning point of their future, they will have to look into the eyes with honesty and compassion to face their personal transformation and change the destiny of everything Oz. “
WICKED: For Good premieres in cinemas the November 21, 2025.
