Wicked star Marissa Bode has addressed the online response to her character Nessarose. In a five-and-a-half-minute TikTok posted on Friday, the actress distinguished “goofy, harmless” house jokes from ...

Marissa Bode, the actress who plays Elphaba’s sister Nessarose in the Wicked movie, is offering some nuance on the “jokes” about her character’s disability. The actor posted to TikTok on Saturday to ...

In the week since its release, Wicked has become a genuine phenomenon in the United States. The success of the musical has led to a variety of jokes and memes on the internet, but one of the movie’s ...

"It is simply a low-hanging fruit that too many of you are comfortable taking." Marissa Bode is trying to change attitudes toward her Wicked character's disability for good. The actress, who uses a ...

In a video posted to TikTok on Friday, Bode shot down “gross” and “dangerous” jokes about her "Wicked" character. “This goes so far beyond me, Marissa, just needing to ignore comments on the internet.

"At the end of the day, me, Marissa, is the person that is still disabled and in a wheelchair," says Bode. "So, it is simply a low-hanging fruit that too many of you are comfortable taking." As ...

While Marissa Bode is excited by the warm reception her movie Wicked has received, she has also felt “uncomfortable” by certain jokes aimed at her character, Nessarose. “It is absolutely OK to not ...

Marissa Bode is addressing the derogatory comments made about her “Wicked” character. Bode, who portrays the character Nessarose, the younger sister of Cynthia Erivo’s Elphaba, posted a five-minute ...

The Office producer Ash Atalla has admitted that in recent years, he’s questioned whether it was right for him to have had Ricky Gervais make jokes about his disability. At the insistence of Atalla, ...