EXCLUSIVE | ‘Clash of the Thundermans’ has a surprising ‘Wicked’ connection
Kira Kosarin is back as Phoebe Thunderman in ‘Clash of the Thundermans’ but this time, she brought a little bit of Oz with her.
‘That 90s Show’ star has played the superhero since the original Nickelodeon series premiered in 2013 and has now returned for another chapter of the beloved franchise. While playing the role, Kosarin found some unexpected inspiration for one of her favorite moments in the new movie and it came from ‘Wicked’.
For the unversed, Phoebe tries to convince Chloe (Maya Le Clark) that she can pull off hypnosis and Kosarin had a very particular character in mind while filming it.
“That whole scene in the farm as I was filming it, I was really trying to channel Glinda teaching Elphaba,” Kosarin told MTN during an exclusive interview. “That was sort of my inspiration for those scenes where she's just so like delusionally kind of, ‘I can do this. This is... I got this,’” she further explained.
The connection wasn't something Kosarin had planned. In fact, she didn't even realize she was doing it until the inspiration naturally came to her while filming.
“I didn't even know that I like did it intentionally, but it was sort of around the ‘Wicked’ premiere and as I was acting I was going, ‘Oh, I'm pulling a Glinda here.’ Which I think is a very funny thing for Phoebe to do,” she recalled.
After playing Phoebe for so many years, Kosarin has clearly found new ways to bring the character to life and the accidental crossover with Glinda only made the scene that much more fun.
