Wicked star Marissa Bode revealed that Wicked: Part Two will feature a significant alteration to the original Broadway musical to avoid ableist language. The changes focus on the magic of the story rather than fixing Nessarose's disability.
Have YOU got a story? Email Wicked star Marissa Bode teased that Wicked : Part Two will include at least one major deviation from the beloved Broadway musical.
'And that's all I can say, I think!' Bode said to People amid Wicked's record-breaking week at the box office. Chu received Bode's submission late in the open call as he searched tirelessly for someone 'who's young, who can sing, who can act, who's a wheelchair user and who has both the sweetness and the darkness of what happens in our story.'
Costume designer Paul Tazewell explained that she wanted Bode 'to look almost like a cherished doll, with cream or white bases to underscore her innocence.' In her video message, she began by saying that it is OK and 'totally fine' to dislike Nessarose's actions and personality or to make jokes about those particular subjects because she is a fictional character.
'These comments do not exist in a vacuum,' she said before she started giving examples of the shocking and egregious jokes people have been making about her character regarding her disability. In the TikTok video, she also admitted that 'the most frustrating part about all of this is how scared I am to even post talk about this.'
'It would have affected younger me a lot more, and I’m worried that a younger version of myself is somewhere on the internet and is harmed by these comments,' she said.
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