Wicked: For Good Cut This Glinda Scene Because It Was 'Too Passionate'

The yellow brick road ahead is filled with spoilers for "Wicked: For Good," so proceed on your broomstick or in your bubble with the utmost caution!

Based on the run time of "Wicked: For Good" — Jon M. Chu's adaptation of the relatively brief second act of "Wicked," the Broadway musical written by Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman — it's surprising that anything got cut. Still, according to the film's co-writer Dana Fox (who worked with Holzman on the big-screen adaptation), it actually was missing something pretty big: a passionate moment between Glinda the "Good Witch" (Ariana Grande-Butera) and Winkie prince Fiyero Tigelaar (Jonathan Bailey).

In an exclusive interview with Deadline , Fox said that she felt like the cuts that were ultimately made were "for [...] the right