The information is out and the web is thrilled: Colman Domingo will voice the Cowardly Lion in “Depraved: For Good.”
“Depraved” director Jon M. Chu teased the information in a Thursday interview with Deadline, saying that will probably be “wild” when the actor who’s voicing the half — a significant Hollywood star, per Chu — steps on the crimson carpet.
However the information was as a substitute revealed Monday, when the “Depraved” film Instagram account posted a video of Domingo enjoying with and surrounded by numerous stuffed toy lions.
“See you in Oz,” Domingo says within the video with a wink.
Customers on social media spent the weekend speculating who could be enjoying the half, with rumors centering on former late-night host and musical theater actor James Corden.
When the information was introduced Monday, those self same customers celebrated the casting — and the truth that the position did not go to Corden.
“James Corden is not the lion in depraved! We received,” one X person posted.
So as to ebook Domingo within the half initially made well-known by Bert Lahr within the 1939 movie adaptation of “The Wizard of Oz,” Chu instructed Deadline he despatched the “Sing Sing” actor a direct message on Instagram.
“I used to be like, ‘It is not a ton of traces, however possibly you’ve gotten slightly time. I do know you are busy. I’ll come to you,'” Chu recalled saying within the message, in accordance with Deadline.
Chu stated Domingo responded “‘Why the f— not, let’s go!’ After which we went forward and recorded the traces.”
Domingo joins an already star-studded solid, together with Ariana Grande as Glinda, Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba and Jonathan Bailey as Fiyero.
“Depraved: For Good,” the second in a two-part collection, releases in theaters on Nov. 21. It should proceed the story instructed in final yr’s “Depraved.” The movie is produced and will probably be distributed by Common Photos, which is owned by NBCUniversal, the mother or father firm of NBC Information.
