In an expansive — and possibly final — interview with Them, the novelist discusses Elphaba’s origin story, its nods to the AIDS epidemic, and all those queer fan theories.

She fails herself, her college, and her country, but she especially fails her rival, roommate, and eventual friend Elphaba. In the new movie adaptation of Act I of the Broadway show, one of the ways she fails Elphaba caught my attention in a way it never did onstage.

In an interview with 'Them,' Maguire discussed his 1995 novel that inspire the Broadway musical and new film starring Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo