Wicked Witch Marissa Bode Responds to Ableist's Attack on Nessarose

as evil Fandom builds and new fan bases arise, but it's not always a source of positivity. along with evil loyal Stanning Elphaba (played by Cynthia Erivo) and Defense Glinda (played by Ariana Grande)making fun of conflicts in movies is mostly fun and harmless as long as it's about the characters and not the real-life actors.

Erivo and Grande's co-star Marissa Bird has so far taken the villainization of her character, the future Wicked Witch of the East and Throop's rising Nessaros, in stride. Her role as Elphaba's sister is crucial to the fate of the witches. As we enter, her sparkly shoes become the center of the drama evil part twoif the movie followed L. Frank Baum's lead, it would have introduced a little girl named Dorothy Gale The Wizard of Oz source material. We've already discussed that Nessa is a villain to be wary of due to Balder's incredible performance, but some people are taking their hatred for the character a little too far.

In a report on TikTok deadlinethe actress shared about recent harassment she experienced due to her disability; like her character, Bird is a wheelchair user. “It's absolutely okay not to like fictional characters,” Bode said. “I'm going to admit that I'm biased because I feel differently about Nessa than a lot of you do, and that's totally fine. I think Nessa is complicated, but that's the beauty of art. evil These characters and movies wouldn't be what they are without a different take on these characters and who is truly evil. It’s okay not to like Nyssa herself. Since she's fictional, that's totally fine.

She went on to say “disability is not fictional” and described attacks on the character as “aggressive” and “very uncomfortable” because of Nessa's disability.

“At the end of the day, I, Marissa, am still disabled and in a wheelchair. So it's just a low-hanging fruit that a lot of people are willing to accept,” Bode said. “This is way beyond my capabilities, Marissa, I just need to ignore the comments online. These comments don't exist in a vacuum. Offensive comments that want to cause harm and push Nessa out of her wheelchair, or she deserves it.” Disability, are two very vulgar and harmful comments that truly disabled people (myself included) have heard before.

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