Wicked: For Good has plenty of standout performances, but Cynthia Erivo ’s rendition of “No Good Deed” might be one of the best. It’s one of the most emotional songs in the original Broadway musical, and capturing its full depth for the movie was important for the film’s director, Jon M. Chu — in fact, this goal actually led to Chu keeping a “messy” filming error in the final cut of the film.

Originally, Chu mapped out the scene so that Erivo would unrig from a harness in the middle of the song. "She did those versions of it, but one time she was like, 'I don't want to unrig and do the whole thing, it's throwing me. Let me just do it here,'" Chu told Entertainment Weekly in a Nov. 26 interview. “And she does it, and she's just in it, and that's the take we use. That's why it's

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