"Marissa Bode is feeling sentimental. She's at the tail end of a whirlwind press tour for Wicked: For Good, which has sent her to events across London and New York and signals the end of her time in Oz. "It's just a press tour, but it's still saying goodbye in and of itself," she says as she settles into our table at Midtown's Jams."
"She recalls the audition process with both fondness and mild embarrassment. After convincing herself she'd lost out on the part, she made a short film "about turning your bad luck into good luck" and shared it on Instagram, which caught the attention of Wicked director Jon M. Chu. "Literally, a few days later, they had me for another callback over Zoom," she recalls."
"Chu acknowledged that she shouldn't have hinted at auditioning for Wicked publicly - but he wasn't there to punish her. "Mind you, at the end of the short film, you hear a knock at the door, and it cuts to black," she says. "He opens his door, and it's Ari[ana Grande] and Cynthia [Erivo] with a sign that says, 'Welcome to Oz. Will you be our Nessarose?'""
Marissa Bode is concluding a whirlwind press tour for Wicked: For Good across London and New York and feels sentimental about ending her time in Oz. She moved from small-town Wisconsin to Los Angeles for performing arts school and acted in community theatre before booking her first feature film. She was cast as Nessarose Thropp, the first role in which she saw herself represented as a wheelchair user. After believing she lost the audition, she made and posted a short film about turning bad luck into good luck, which attracted director Jon M. Chu and led to a callback over Zoom.
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