On Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers’ ‘Las Culturistas’ podcast, the ‘Positions’ singer channeled a memorable line delivery from Emma Watson
Ariana Grande counts Hermione Granger on her growing list of spot-on impersonations.
Asked to deliver her take on the Harry Potter character played by Emma Watson on the big screen, Grande, 31, had Las Culturistas podcast hosts Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers in stitches during the episode posted Wednesday, Nov. 6.
“Can you do your Hermione impression? Do you know the one I’m talking about?” asked Yang, 34.
“Ron’s been splinched!” the singer-actress immediately responded, summoning the fictional witch’s distress in 2010’s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1. In the film adaptation of J.K. Rowling’s seventh novel, Ron (played by Rupert Grint) is at one point splinched, or injured by teleportation magic.
“I love the vocal fray so much,” added Grande of Watson’s line delivery.
Grande and Yang star together in Wicked: Part One, the first in a two-part screen adaptation of Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman’s Broadway musical directed by Jon M. Chu. During her recent appearance as host on Saturday Night Live, where Yang is a regular cast member, Grande reminded audiences of some of her convincing celebrity impressions: Britney Spears, Miley Cyrus, Jennifer Coolidge and more.
During a sketch called “Charades with Mom” on Grande’s Oct. 12 episode of SNL, the two costars played a combative mom and her son’s new boyfriend.
“I really have to apologize to you in person,” Yang told Grande of the sketch, which ended with him smooching her. “I opened up my mouth too much when we kissed.”
“You absolutely did. I was shaking after,” she replied. “Not in a bad way, just in a disarming way.”
