Here’s Which A-List Actor Will Voice the Cowardly Lion in ‘Wicked: For Good’

The secret’s out! After manager Jon M. Chu teased that Wicked: For Good would diagnostic an A-list histrion arsenic the dependable of the Cowardly Lion, the antheral down the mane has been revealed.

As announced Monday (Oct. 20), Colman Domingo volition dependable the furriest of Dorothy Gale’s 3 Ozian friends. The film’s squad unveiled the quality with an Instagram station showing the histrion hiding his look down a stuffed carnal lion earlier making the large reveal.

“See you successful Oz!” helium says, winking astatine the camera.

The quality comes conscionable a fewer days aft Chu was quoted arsenic saying that Lion’s dependable histrion would daze Wicked fans successful the champion way. “Man, hold until the reddish carpet erstwhile the histrion who gave america the Cowardly Lion’s dependable steps ft connected it,” the manager told Deadline. “It’ll beryllium wild.”

Chu besides added astatine the clip that he’d booked Domingo — who is known for his roles successful Euphoria and Sing Sing — by simply messaging him connected Instagram. “I was like, ‘It’s not a ton of lines, but possibly you person a small time,’” helium shared. “‘I cognize you’re busy. I’ll travel to you.’ He was like, ‘Why the f–k not? Let’s go!’ And past we went up and recorded the lines.”

In the 1939 Wizard of Oz movie, Bert Lahr portrays Lion, who meets Dorothy, Scarecrow and Tin Man on the Yellow Brick Road en way to the Emerald City. In the Wicked Broadway musical, Lion is revealed to beryllium the grown-up mentation of a caged lion cub that Elphaba (aka the Wicked Witch of the West) acceptable escaped 1 time astatine school.

Starring Cynthia Erivo arsenic Elphaba and Ariana Grande arsenic Glinda the Good, Chu’s Wicked duology is based connected the Broadway signifier production, which itself was based connected Gregory Maguire’s caller of the aforesaid name. The archetypal of the live-action adaptations arrived successful November 2024, shattering box-office records. For Good is acceptable to deed theaters successful

See the Wicked: For Good Cowardly Lion announcement below.