Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo recreate viral “holding space” meme from ‘Wicked’ press tour at Golden Globes 2025

Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo have recreated their viral “holding space” meme at the 2025 Golden Globes – watch the moment below.

Grande and Erivo – both of whom star in Wicked and Wicked: For Good – have had their fair share of viral moments while promoting the film over the last year. However, perhaps no moment was bigger than when Ariana Grande holding onto Erivo’s finger was turned into a meme that took over social media in the last quarter of 2024.

The meme has since been dubbed “holding space”, and stems from an interview featuring Erivo and Grande, when they both appeared overwhelmed to find out that fans “are taking the lyrics of ‘Defying Gravity’ and really holding space with that, and feeling power in that.” Grande then held Erivo’s finger as a show of support – though this quickly turned into a meme on social media.

While at the Golden Globes earlier today (January 6), Grande and Erivo recreated the meme when host and comedian Nikki Glaser asked Grande to hold her finger. As Grande reached out, Erivo intercepted the two and have Ariana her own finger. Ariana mouthed to Glaser as she held Erivo’s finger: “I’m holding hers.”

Watch the moment below from the one minute mark below.

Say hello to your roast for the night—Oops, we mean HOST for the night… @NikkiGlaser! 🎙️ #GoldenGlobes pic.twitter.com/MVa5FQ1NoS

— Golden Globes (@goldenglobes) January 6, 2025

Elsewhere at the Golden Globes, Wicked won the award for Cinematic and Box Office Achievement in Motion Pictures. However, Grande lost out the honour for Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture, and Erivo lost Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy Or Musical.

In a four-star review of Wicked, Nick Levine wrote for NME: “Wicked flags a little in the middle, but not enough to dampen a dramatic climax in which Elphaba and Glinda travel to Oz to meet the fabled Wonderful Wizard (Jeff Goldblum). He and Yeoh sell their brief musical numbers on twinkly charisma, but Erivo and Grande are both vocally extraordinary. Crucially, they also have crackling chemistry punctuated by Erivo’s bursts of intensity and Grande’s slick comic timing. By the end, you won’t quite be levitating off your seat but you’ll definitely be enchanted enough to stream the soundtrack on the way home. Funny, colourful and full of empathy for outsiders, this film really is the Shiz.”

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