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Wicked’s Marissa Bode, who is the first-ever wheelchair idiosyncratic to play Nessarose, discussed the value of practice astatine the film’s Los Angeles premiere astatine the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion Nov. 9.
By Bentley Maddox Nov 10, 2024 1:23 AMTags
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Marissa Bode hopes her relation successful Wicked will defy much than gravity going forward.
The 24-year-old—who plays Nessarose, the younger sister to Cynthia Erivo’s Elphaba, successful the movie adaptation of the Broadway show—is honored to marque past arsenic the archetypal wheelchair idiosyncratic to play the Shiz University student. But she’s determined to not beryllium the last.
“I deliberation it should acceptable a precedent to casting successful the aboriginal for not conscionable maine but my chap disabled endowment retired there,” Marissa told Zuri Hall and Justin Sylvester astatine the Nov. 9 Los Angeles premiere of the film. “Even conscionable connected the carpet today, seeing different disabled radical and their emotion for Wicked and past conscionable saying however overmuch it means to them too, that means the satellite to me.”
She besides knows that her practice successful Wicked—in which she stars alongside Ariana Grande, Michelle Yeoh, Ethan Slater and more—will assistance others consciousness seen.
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“Growing up determination wasn’t a batch of that for me,” Marissa continued, “but erstwhile I did spot it it truly did mean a lot. I was like, ‘Oh, it’s possible. There’s a spot for maine here.’”
And the Wisconsin-native—who became disabled astatine 11 arsenic a effect of a car accident—has been passionate astir advocating for much practice successful the aboriginal of Hollywood.
“Casting authentically and showing an authentic disabled idiosyncratic is precise important,” Marissa told Variety in September, “but it’s besides precise important how we’re shown.”
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“I deliberation feeling little unsocial tin assistance propel different disabled radical to instrumentality enactment and consciousness similar they tin talk retired astir issues regarding accessibility and ableism that are unluckily inactive prevalent successful nine today,” she continued. “Representation is conscionable the precise extremity of the iceberg erstwhile it comes to disablement rights and the disablement question arsenic a whole.”
Read connected to spot much of the stars that graced the Wicked reddish carpet.
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Jonathan Bailey
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Frankie Grande
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Normani
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Emilie Livingston & Jeff Goldblum
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Karrueche Tran
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Sheryl Lee Ralph
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Ethan Slater
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Jonathan Bailey
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Michelle Yeoh
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Sasha Farber & Jenn Tran
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Lena Waithe
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Leah Kateb
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Bronwyn James
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Sophia Bush
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Hayley Kiyoko
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Troye Sivan
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Ashley Tisdale
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Remi Bader
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Chris Olsen
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Frankie Grande
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Valentin Chmerkovskiy & Jenna Johnson
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Stassi Schroeder
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Chrishell Stause
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Loren Gray
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Dylan Mulvaney
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Bella Poarch
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Hannah Stocking
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Witney Carson
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Zuri Hall
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Nia Sioux
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