the evil The press tour is over, however Cynthia Erivo and Ariana GrandeThe 'Grip Space' finger grip won't die for you – just ask Timothée Chalamet and Elle Fanning.
The duo who participated in Completely anonymousI recently conducted an interview with The lawyerIt's you Tracy E. Gilchristbest known as the journalist who inspired the meme about “holding space” to the lyrics “defying gravity.”
Gilchrist introduced herself to Chalamet and Fanning by joking, “First, I just want to let you know that I'm holding space for you both.”
Fanning, 26, replied: “Thank you, I'm starstruck!” Chalamet, 29, agreed with his colleagues' assessment, adding: “Yes, I'm amazed.”
The pair then perfectly executed their version of the now-infamous one-finger fist bump that Grande, 31, gave Erivo, 37, last month.
“It's an honor to talk to you. I feel like I'm kind of flabbergasted,” Chalamet continued. “I was like, 'Oh my God, well, this better be good.'”
Fanning admitted that she and Chalamet wouldn't be able to overcome Erivo and Grande's viral moment no matter what they did.
“There's nothing we can do that can top what happened, you know what I mean?” Fanning said. “We can try.”
The “booking space” meme originated in November when Gilchrist interviewed Erivo and Grande during Seemingly endless evil Press tour. The journalist, who noted that she is “in queer media,” told the couple that she had seen people online “holding space” for the lyrics to “Defying Gravity.”
Erivo responded that she didn't see it happen personally but seemed emotional as she said that was what she wanted fans to get Her performance as Elphaba. Meanwhile, Grande turned to her for support, but instead of holding the star's hand, she only held one finger.
Grande later admitted that she didn't understand what was going on when the “waiting space” discussion was taking place.
“So I had no idea what any part of it meant,” the pop star said. diverse Earlier this month. “I didn't understand the first sentence. And then I definitely didn't understand what was happening and how (Cynthia) responded. I said, 'Oh, what did she say, what did she hear?' And I just wanted to be there because I knew something big was happening. And I didn't know how to be there.” .
Grande went on to say that she grabbed Erivo's finger because she thought her star “might need something” but admitted that she didn't know why she started tapping said finger.
However, like the rest of the internet, Grande loved memes.
“I feel really relieved that the world went through the same experience that I did at this moment, because I felt like I wasn’t broken,” she joked. “The best thing is to hold space with that.”