Wicked” stars Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande opened up to TODAY’s Hoda Kotb and Savannah Guthrie about playing Elphaba and Glinda.

We are days away from part one of the highly anticipated musical movie adaptation of Wicked, which makes it a great time to get to know the film’s cast, specifically the new Wicked Witch of The West,

“The most disrespected person in America is the Black woman,” Malcolm X said in a 1962 speech in Los Angeles on the tribulations of Black women in America. “The most unprotected person in America is the Black woman. The most neglected person in America is the Black woman.”