Michelle Yeoh’s favorite meme from Wicked: For Good has a brand-new champion. Milo Manheim decided to flip it around, much to the Internet’s delight. The Disney franchise star is hopping aboard social media’s current obsession and he’s got the perfect name to do it. Milo Manheim was basically made for him to take both of those “M’s” in his moniker and flip them around. Take a look at him riffing on the phenomenon down below.
No one could have guessed the dominant meme from Wicked: For Good would appear almost a week after the movie was released. But, here we are anyway! What started with Michelle Yeoh taking two hands making M’s and then turning them up into W’s has spread across social media like wildfire. The brands are getting in on the act now. Luckily for Milo, he beat the rush it seems!
It’s no surprise that the Zombies 4 star was so excited for Wicked. We know that he loves the theater. He told Variety that he sees more of that stage in his future. Manheim said, “I absolutely hope to do more theater. The plan is, the goal if you will, is to go back and forth between film and theater for the rest of my life. I love them both so much.” We could totally see that happening at some point. Let’s hope for a Michelle Yeoh and Milo crossover.
Wicked Witch Meme Explained
All of these fun and games started during Wicked: For Good’s press tour Fandango sat down with the entire cast including Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Jonathan Bailey, director John M Chu and Michelle Yeoh. Know Your Meme pointed out that this is the first time people really began noticing the MM meme. From there, things just started rolling downhill.
“I honestly think now looking back. I remember when John first came to me and asked me to do this. And then, I got the imperative order from these gorgeous ladies here,” the Madame Morible actress began. “The one thing that happened to me, when the movie first came out, was I had a lot of fans come up to me and say, ‘Are you really wicked? Are you going to be wicked?’”
Yeoh continued, “They were scared, almost apprehensive to find out the real answer. But then, that’s the beauty about this character, which we see in quite a lot of people. Its that we get blind? So blinded by our own ambition, we forget that other people too have their own dreams and needs to be realized.”
“So as I was going into Wicked 2, and then, of course, the realization, John [Chu] actually called me Madam Horrible. Then, I knew right away. Okay, here’s this Madam Horrible,” she smirked. “That was great. It was good because I had to accept, she’s not horrible. She’s just blinded by it. Because, if you think about it, Madam Morrible, MM, flip it around, Wicked Witch!”
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