Marissa Bode and Ethan Slater on Wicked and why representation matters

GLAAD's Anthony Allen Ramos chats with Marissa Bode and Ethan Slater about their film Wicked which is in theaters November 22!

Marissa plays Nessarose and she opens up about the impact of playing this role. "It means everything to me and also just to the disabled community as a whole...I think it is so important to cast disabled actors for the roles of disabled characters because of that authenticity," Bode says.

Ethan plays Boq who often feels a bit outcast at times. "I think there are ways in which he is continually misunderstood and partially that becomes a projection of his own sort of insecurities...hopefully people can take away sort of a sense of seeing the humanness in everybody and that there are people for you," Slater says

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