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There are so many beautiful lifts in Wicked , and so it was in the back of my mind to incorporate those into the movie. The world of Wicked is traditionally boxed onto a stage, but on the screen, it became massive, spanning from the Emerald City to Shiz.

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Scott shares about the process of creating unique movement languages for the big screen. I wanted to go into kind of a quirky movement language and develop something. What we do have in Oz are different parts of the world — Winkie Country, Munchkinland, Emerald City, Shiz — so, you have these different areas which each has its own movement language.

Munchkinland is very grounded to the earth. Boots and stomping and percussion — so we started playing with rhythmic things and a lot of footwork. Something unique about this movie adaptation, is that it spans two parts. What was incredible about doing two movies was watching the actors develop their characters. When I choreograph, I connect with the actors and make sure I listen to their versions of the characters before I get set on any ideas for them.

Over these two movies, they have quite a journey.