Ariana Grande was completely shocked when Drew Barrymore surprised her with her character Glinda’s original wand from the 1939 movie “The Wizard of Oz” starring Judy Garland.
In that film, actor Billie Burke portrayed Glinda, and now Grande plays the popular witch in her new movie, “Wicked.” (Universal Pictures is owned by TODAY.com’s parent company, NBCUniversal.)
Barrymore shared Grande’s reaction on Instagram Dec. 3 in a preview clip for an interview airing on Dec. 5.
As they both comfortably sat on a couch and petted a dog, Barrymore leaned over to tell Grande that she has a special surprise for her.
“I have something that’s extremely exciting and special,” Barrymore said. “It was owned by the Smithsonian and now it’s owned in private hands. But for the purposes of our sit down, they loaned it to us. Bring out the original Glinda wand, please!”
Grande then held her hand over her mouth and began to tear up as she was given the wand.
“Are you serious right now?” the “Eternal Sunshine” singer said.
After a round of applause by the audience, Grande jokingly tried to walk off stage with the prop before she returned to her seat to gush about the iconic moment.
“You look so perfect with it,” Barrymore said, before revealing how she got the wand on her show.
“I have to give credit to everyone on the show because literally we were so excited about you coming here. We were like, ‘OK, let’s get the wand. Let’s get Nonna and all the producers,” she said. “That is the original one from ‘The Wizard of Oz,’ so there you go.”
“Oh my God,” Grande replied while showing it off.
Though it was a special moment for Grande to hold her character’s original wand, she told her “Wicked” co-stars during an interview that aired on TODAY that she and Cynthia Erivo, who plays Elphaba in the film, took home plenty of memorabilia from their movie.
“It’s just a question of, ‘What did we leave? What didn’t we take?’” Grande joked.
The “Positions” singer revealed that they brought home pieces of costumes, props and other set items that meant something to them, including Grande’s wand in the film and Erivo’s broom.
