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‘Wicked’ Star Marissa Bode Condemns ‘Aggressive’ and ‘Very Gross’ Comments About Nessarose’s Disability: It Is ‘Low-Hanging Fruit That Too Many of You Are Comfortable Taking’
'Wicked' star Marissa Bode has spoken out against the comments and jokes about Nessarose's disability, calling them 'aggressive' and 'very gross.'
“ Wicked ” star Marissa Bode has spoken out against the negative comments and jokes about her character Nessarose’s disability, calling them “aggressive,” “very gross” and “harmful.” In a five-minute video posted on TikTok on Friday, Bode — who uses a wheelchair on screen and in real life — shared her thoughts on the insensitive comments circulating online about Nessarose, the sister of Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo). Bode urged “Wicked” viewers to stop dismissing each other and “claiming an experience can’t be true because you personally don’t feel that way about a joke that wouldn’t have affected your demographic anyways.”
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