"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 wheelchair in real life and on screen,

Wicked star Marissa Bode has criticised those who have joked about the disability of her character, Nessarose. The musical-fantasy film follows Elphaba Thropp ( Cynthia Erivo) and Galinda Upland ( Ariana Grande) as they meet at Shiz University, beginning a journey that will change the very fabric of Oz.

Marissa Bode reportedly lost her legs when she was only 11 during an accident, making her unable to walk again

Marissa Bode, who is making her screen debut in Wicked, took a little spill while making the movie adaptation of the hit Broadway musical. "I did fall backward one of the times," Bode says with a sheepish grin while discussing filming her dance sequence with Ethan Slater's Boq in the "Dancing Through Life" number.

Marissa Bode, the first authentic wheelchair user to play Nessarose in Wicked, has nothing but praise for the film's cast and crew, who went above and beyond to create an accessible,

The actress, who uses a wheelchair just like her character Nessarose, told in a Tiktok video that she is 'deeply uncomfortable' about jokes made about her character

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 the “deeply uncomfortable” comments she’s been getting about her character’s disability.