No good scene goes off without a hitch. 

And when one is dealing with the likes of Cynthia Erivo singing “No Good Deed” in Wicked: For Good, it’s best to just let her genius run free. It’s why director Jon M. Chu was happy to make a change to the blocking for the movie-stopping number: originally, Elphaba was going to be on the move at the song’s open, forcing Cynthia to unrig from her harness mid-shot. 

“She did those versions of it, but one time she was like, ‘I don’t want to unrig and do the whole thing, it’s throwing me. Let me just do it here,'” Jon told Entertainment Weekly in an interview published Nov. 26. “And she does it, and she’s just in it, and that’s the take we use. That’s why it’s messy—because our camera [operator] didn’t know it was happening. I forgot to tell them.”

Ultimately, Jon found the stillness to be even more moving.

“I mean, she’s in a room alone, singing that while we’re shooting this,” he recalled. “There is nothing around her; she is making the whole f–king scene. It’s pretty awesome.”