Ariana Grande Jokes Biopic Should Be Called ‘Scrap This and Don’t Watch It’ and You Won’t Believe Who, or What, She Wants To Play Her

Some artists have a grand vision for what their life would look like on the big screen. And though Ariana Grande has starred in two of the top three highest-grossing films adapted from Broadway musicals over the past two years in Wicked and Wicked: For Good, when the singer was asked recently what she envisions for a potential biopic she though small. Real small.

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“A tiny mouse with subtitles the whole time,” Grande said in a chat with Backstage on Monday (Feb. 9) in which she joked that the film should be titled Scrap This and Don’t Watch It, saying she’s not really into the idea in general. “I would like that, actually,” she said, describing her vision for the film as more of a Demi than a Trenta, to use Starbucks size comparisons.

“It would be a tiny, beautiful short film with mice reenacting my whole life with little, tiny subtitles at the bottom,” said the 32-year-old star. “That’s the only version of it that I’m interested in.”

She gave Backstage some other intriguing answers in their rapid-fire Q&A, turning down the chance to define her career in one word — “I’m a long-winded woman” — before landing on “spontaneous or curious.” Asked which actor’s brain she would most love to burrow into while preparing for a role, she, of course, chose her pal Jim Carrey, whose Showtime series, Kidding, she guest-starred in in 2020 as Piccola the Pickle Fairy.

“I would love to be a fly on the wall of his beautiful mind,” she said, or, maybe Kate Winslet, who was Carrey’s co-star in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, the trippy 2004 relationship drama Grande said inspired her 2024 Billboard 200 No. 1 album Eternal Sunshine.

After two years of promoting and talking about the Wicked films, as well as attending an endless series of red carpets and awards shows in support of the movies, in January Grande told Vogue Japan that despite not being used to taking time off in her nearly two-decade career, “I think it would probably be healthy to [take a break]… But yeah, these past few years have been pretty nonstop. And by few, I mean 15.”

That break won’t come anytime soon, as Grande will appear in the upcoming sequel Focker In-Law as well as next year’s West End revival — with Wicked co-star Jonathan Bailey — of the Stephen Sondheim stage musical Sunday in the Park With George. The singer is also gearing up to launch her Eternal Sunshine North American tour, which kick off on June 6 at the Oakland Arena in Oakland, Calif. and is slated to run through an Aug. 6 show at the United Center in Chicago before hopping over to London for 10 gigs at the O2 in August and September.