Marissa Bode and Cynthia Erivo Common Footage
Whereas Marissa Bode is worked up by the nice and cozy reception her film Depraved has obtained, she has additionally felt “uncomfortable” by sure jokes aimed toward her character, Nessarose.
“It’s completely OK to not like a fictional character. I’m going to be admitting my bias in the way in which that I’ve lots of completely different emotions on Nessa than lots of you do,” Bode, 24, mentioned in a Friday, November 29, TikTok video. “That’s completely effective; I believe Nessa is complicated however that’s the fantastic thing about artwork and Depraved and these characters and the flicks wouldn’t be what it was if there weren’t completely different opinions on the characters and who’s really depraved or not.”
Depraved, which hit theaters earlier this month, was tailored by director Jon M. Chu from the Broadway musical of the identical title. The stage manufacturing itself took inspiration from Gregory Maguire’s novel, a prequel to The Wizard of Oz. In all variations, Depraved tells the story of Elphaba, the Depraved Witch of the West, and Galinda/Glinda, The Good Witch of the North, once they first met as roommates at Shiz College.
In Chu’s film, Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande play Elphaba and Galinda, respectively. Bode’s character, Nessarose, is Elphie’s sister and the apple of their father’s eye. As Nessa is confined to a wheelchair, their father entrusts Elphaba to observe over her whereas in school.
Theater lovers and film goers alike have been counting down the times till the movie adaptation of Broadway’s Depraved premieres. Depraved made its stage debut in 2003, with Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth taking part in witches Elphaba and Glinda, respectively. Greater than 20 years later, followers are getting a two-part film model of the musical starring […]
“Not liking Nessa herself is OK as a result of she is fictional, that’s completely effective,” Bode, who makes use of a wheelchair in actual life, additional admitted. “I’m a deeply unserious particular person [and] I really like slightly jokey joke. … Jokes about Nessa’s persona are foolish, goofy as a result of she herself is fictional.”
She added, “That being mentioned … aggressive feedback and ‘jokes’ about Nessa’s incapacity itself is deeply uncomfortable as a result of incapacity is just not fictional. On the finish of the day, me Marissa, is the person who continues to be disabled and in a wheelchair. It’s merely a low-hanging fruit that too a lot of you might be comfy taking.”
Ethan Slater and Marissa Bode Common Footage
Whereas Bode acknowledges that she heard sure jokes lengthy earlier than Depraved, they nonetheless aren’t “authentic” and “seems like laughing at [me] relatively than laughing with [me].”
“Probably the most irritating a part of all of that is how scared I’m to even put up [or] speak about this,” Bode added. “This goes to this point past me Marissa simply needing to disregard feedback on the web. These feedback don’t exist in a vacuum. Aggressive feedback of desirous to trigger hurt and ‘push Nessa out of her wheelchair’ or that she deserves her incapacity are two very gross and dangerous feedback that actual disabled individuals, together with myself, have heard.”
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Bode additional implored her followers in her TikTok caption to “do the work” and “dissect and unlearn your personal ableism.”
“Take heed to the individuals or to the person who [the comment] is affecting and the way it makes them really feel,” she concluded. “Fortunately, I’m at a spot in my life immediately the place I can acknowledge these jokes about incapacity are made out of ignorance. I couldn’t say the identical about Marissa 10 years in the past.”
Depraved is now in theaters.
