Ari & Cynthia Tease A Shirtless Fiyero Scene In Wicked: For Good

Just when you thought Fiyero couldn’t get any hotter, it turns out Wicked actually restrained Jonathan Bailey’s full seductive powers. One of Bailey’s co-stars revealed that they had filmed a scene where Fiyero rips his shirt off and starts flexing. Unfortunately for all the thirsty fans, the moment did not make the final cut. But according to the film’s stars and director, the scene could be in the second movie, Wicked: For Good.

Bowen Yang, who played Glinda’s lackey Pfannee in the movie musical, first spilled on the scrapped scene during his Dec. 10 appearance on the Just Trish podcast. “It’s Boq and Fiyero ripping their shirts off... You were supposed to see Jonathan Bailey in his full shirtless glory, like, flexing,” Yang said. The moment would have highlighted Boq’s (Ethan Slater) anxieties around Fiyero’s overpowering charm. “And then Boq, in the story of the movie, just being insecure.”

There’s still hope that fans may be able to see this cut scene at some point — like potentially in Wicked: For Good, which is coming out in November. “Maybe it will work its way into For Good. Maybe during For Good when we’re singing the most important ballad of our lives, it’ll just be a montage of Jonathan Bailey shirtless,” Ariana Grande told Entertainment Tonight on Jan. 7 at the National Board of Review Gala.

On the same red carpet for the Jan. 7 event, Cynthia Erivo also weighed in. “You don’t need it yet,” she told ET. “Listen, just wait. Patience. Things come to those who wait.”

Director Jon M. Chu also entertained the idea of the scene appearing in the second film. “You never know what’s going to happen in the future, but for right now, it has to stay in the vault,” he told ET about the cut scene that has fans clamoring for more. “But I hear it. I feel it... They’re all harassing me about it.”

In the meantime, Bailey’s fans have no shortage of shirtless content to satiate them. He is constantly shedding his fancy period clothing as Anthony Bridgerton on Bridgerton, and is practically always in the tearing apart the bedroom in his recent erotic drama Fellow Travelers. Oh, and if you’re only just getting into Bailey right now, you should also know he also has a cheeky role in Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s 2016 comedy series Crashing.