Ariana Grande and Liz Gillies celebrated Halloween with risqué costumes impressed by the 1995 erotic movie Showgirls. The previous Victorious co-stars took to Instagram on October 30 to point out off their elaborate appears as Elizabeth Berkley and Gina Gershon‘s film characters. Ariana took on the position of Nomi Malone, the rookie stripper performed by Elizabeth, whereas Liz, 30, remodeled into Cristal Conners, the diva showgirl portrayed by Gina. The duo wore coordinating black outfits and different attractive ensembles from the Paul Verhoeven-directed movie of their photos.
Ariana and Liz used well-known strains from Showgirls — which is about feminine dancers competing to be the highest canine at a strip membership — within the captions of their submit. “You and me… we’re precisely alike,” one submit learn, whereas one other stated, “You’re a whore, Darlin’!” A 3rd submit of the friends of their costumes learn, “There’s at all times somebody youthful and hungrier coming down the steps after you.”
After posing of their Showgirls-inspired costumes, Ariana and Liz additionally reenacted one of the vital iconic scenes from the movie. In a sequence of three movies, the duo acted out their characters eating at an expansive Las Vegas restaurant. Issues get tense between the 2 and Ariana, enjoying Nomi, throws champagne at Liz’s face, which occurred to Cristal within the movie. Ariana and Liz shared their full reenactment of the scene to their Instagrams.
This isn’t the primary time Ariana and Liz have dressed up collectively for Halloween. Final 12 months, the duo — who met in 2008 starring within the Broadway musical 13 earlier than they performed associates on the hit Nickelodeon sequence Victorious — remodeled into characters from the Christopher Visitor mockumentary Greatest in Present. Ariana dressed as Jennifer Coolidge and Eugene Levy‘s characters, whereas Liz went as Jane Lynch and Catherine O’Hara‘s characters.
Ariana has been shut with Liz for a few years. The Grammy Award winner even included her buddy within the music movies for her songs “Thank U Subsequent” and “Caught With U.” Along with her position as Jade West on Victorious, Liz is finest recognized for taking part in Fallon Carrington in The CW revival of Dynasty that aired from 2017 to 2022.
