Marissa Bose's casting is groundbreaking and deserving of celebration. The role itself, however, comes with caveats ...
Marissa Bode, the first wheelchair user ever to play 'Wicked's' Nessarose, called jokes about her character's disability 'low ...
Marissa Bode is speaking out against ableist comments about her "Wicked" character. The actress, who plays ...
Spoilers ahead. If you’re familiar with the Broadway show, you know Nessarose has quite the arc in Act 2. She succeeds her ...
Marissa Bode of 'Wicked' condemns jokes around Nessarose's disability, calling certain comments 'very gross' and 'harmful' ...
The "Wicked" production team had a "very intentional" commitment to amplify disabled people with its casting and portrayal of ...
Wicked” star Marissa Bode has spoken out against the negative comments and jokes about her character Nessarose’s disability, ...
Wicked acts as a prequel to The Wizard of Oz, telling the story of Elphaba and Glinda looong before Dorothy showed up. In The ...
Marissa Bode, who stars in the film Wicked, is the first ever Nessarose to actually be a wheelchair user. John M. Chu's Wicked starring Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba and Ariana Grande as Glinda has taken ...
From the beginning, Wicked adds a number of noticeable developments to Nessa, including showing audiences a younger version ...
Few books attain the iconography of L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900). Perhaps better known is the MGM ...
Bode pointed out that “aggressive” comments about wanting to push Nessa out of her wheelchair or saying that she deserves her ...