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Wicked star Marissa Bode reveals director Jon M. Chu changes a MAJOR plot point over character's disability in sequel

Wicked star Marissa Bode teased that Wicked: Part Two will include at least one major deviation from the beloved Broadway musical.

The 24-year-old actress, who portrays Nessarose, the younger sister of Elphaba ( Cynthia Erivo), revealed that after signing on to the project that one of her first conversations with director Jon M. Chu was about a 'script change' made to avoid ableist language. While speaking about a pivotal scene in the show's second act, in which her character is given the ability to walk after her sister casts a spell on her silver shoes, Bode recalled that Chu told her, '"Hey, we changed this part in this way just so that it felt less like a fixing moment."' 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.'

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