- Jeff Goldblum appeared on Thursday's episode of "Jimmy Kimmel Live!"
- Goldblum said his childhood fear of witches resurfaced while filming the upcoming movie, "Wicked."
Jeff Goldblum said he began "tearing up in fear" after his childhood phobia of witches resurfaced while filming "Wicked."
Goldblum shared the behind-the-scenes story during Thursday's episode of "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" where he discussed the 2024 film. Goldblum confirmed to Kimmel that he'd appear in the upcoming broadway musical-turned-movie as the Wizard. The cast also includes Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba, Ariana Grande as Glinda, Michelle Yeoh as Madame Morrible, and Jonathan Bailey as Fiyero.
"I shouldn't talk about it, but I was shooting one day and I found myself tearing up in fear," Goldblum said. "A childhood fear came back to me and I told Cynthia Erivo, I said, 'you know, I'm remembering my first dream that I ever had.'"
Goldblum continued that he had a dream about the witch in "Snow White" that had a lasting effect on him.
"My first dream was that I was tied to a tree stump and a witch — because I'd seen 'Snow White,' also with a very scary queen witch — had tied me to this tree stump and I thought was going to chop off my head," Goldblum told Kimmel. "I must've been four or something like that, and she went, 'peaches, peaches.'"
Goldblum added that his older brothers teased him for weeks following the dream by chanting "peaches, peaches."
The film adaptation will be directed by Jon M. Chu and will hit theaters on November 27, 2024. In April 2022, Chu tweeted a statement revealing the story would be split into two films.
—Jon M. Chu (@jonmchu) April 26, 2022
"Here's what happened: as we prepared this production over the last year, it became increasingly clear that it would be impossible to wrestle the story of 'Wicked' into a single film without doing some real damage to it," the statement read.
It added: "So we decided to give ourselves a bigger canvas and make not just one 'Wicked' movie but TWO!!!!"