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Wicked star Marissa Bode journaled to get into Nessarose's character · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: Wicked shattered box office records last year, becoming a worldwide phenomenon.
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  Speaker 1: In the first film, we met Marissa Bodi as Nessa Rose,
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  Speaker 1: Alpha's devoted younger sister. Now you might remember this iconic
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  Speaker 1: scene when all the shiz University students go off campus
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  Speaker 1: for a night out.
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  Speaker 2: Luita zurichad, don't you see suside chance Uiazu Chuddar, don't
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  Speaker 2: be fucked? You know what.
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  Speaker 3: Let's dance.
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  Speaker 1: Wicked for Good.
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  Speaker 4: The highly anticipated sequel continues Glinda and Alphabet's story years
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  Speaker 4: down the line. The two are now navigating the consequences
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  Speaker 4: of their choices, and Nessa as well. They've all gone
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  Speaker 4: through some major life changes. Actor Marissa Body joins us. Now, Marissa,
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  Speaker 4: so happy to have you here on daily with us.
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  Speaker 4: So let's start right there. Things are really different for
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  Speaker 4: your character. She's not that bright eyed young girl anymore.
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  Speaker 4: Where do things pick up?
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  Speaker 2: In the second movie, they pick up of her taking
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  Speaker 2: on now that her father's no longer there, taking on
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  Speaker 2: this role that I don't think she necessarily feels ready
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  Speaker 2: or prepared for, or that she necessarily fully wants to
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  Speaker 2: be in this. Soon we see obviously she goes to school,
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  Speaker 2: she goes to She's university to study and to find
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  Speaker 2: her own person and to now feel so stuck. That's
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  Speaker 2: where we find her in the second at the beginning
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  Speaker 2: of the second film.
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  Speaker 1: And you deliver about transformation so beautifully. I actually want
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  Speaker 1: to pay a clip from Wicked for good and let's
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  Speaker 1: talk on the other.
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  Speaker 3: Side, perhaps a friendly game of cards once I'm done working.
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  Speaker 3: Whatever you say, Madam Governor, I asked you to call
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  Speaker 3: me Nessa, remember bock never mind, I'll call you when
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  Speaker 3: I finished.
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  Speaker 1: So things get complicated. I mean, you read the needle
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  Speaker 1: very well. But what's so interesting to me is that
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  Speaker 1: you were actually filming these at the same time, and
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  Speaker 1: one you're a little bit darker and the other one
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  Speaker 1: you're very jovial. How did you, as an actor do both?
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  Speaker 2: I think just not letting go completely of first film
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  Speaker 2: Nessa and finding her in little pockets and remembering there's
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  Speaker 2: still a part of that young girl in there somewhere,
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  Speaker 2: and I think honoring that. And also I did journal
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  Speaker 2: a lot as Nasa to try to get in that headspace,
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  Speaker 2: and also, yeah, to try to fill in the blanks
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  Speaker 2: that weren't necessarily in the script, and also to develop
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  Speaker 2: and figure out between the time jump of the first
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  Speaker 2: film and the second film how she ends up to
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  Speaker 2: be where she is and where she switches up a little.
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  Speaker 1: That's so cool how you can hold space for both.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, that's behind the scenes. The cast obviously incredible the
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  Speaker 4: chemistry on screen, but also you were talking about off
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  Speaker 4: screen how close everyone is. What was it like working
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  Speaker 4: with you know, Ariana, Cynthia Michelle And for you, do
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  Speaker 4: you have a favorite memory or day on set?
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  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, I mean, everyone is just so incredibly talented,
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  Speaker 2: and I feel so lucky to be a part of
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  Speaker 2: a cast who's just so tremendous at what they do
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  Speaker 2: on screen and also just very kind behind the scenes
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  Speaker 2: as well. My first day in oz so to speak,
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  Speaker 2: or in my green room was a bouquet of flowers
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  Speaker 2: from Ariana, which was just very sweet and just very
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  Speaker 2: welcoming and kind to set that precedent of what's the
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  Speaker 2: common in the setting for what the work that I
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  Speaker 2: was about to do and put into both films.
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  Speaker 1: I love the sisterhood between all the cast members. I
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  Speaker 1: think it's beautif. And what's interesting is that you have
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  Speaker 1: this incredible like theater training in theater history, and this
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  Speaker 1: was your first feature film, So what like peel back
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  Speaker 1: a curtain? What was the audition process?
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  Speaker 4: Like?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I all of it was over zoom because
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  Speaker 2: at that point in time, everyone was already over in
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  Speaker 2: London and all virtual. I sent in a self tape
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  Speaker 2: that same day, I got a call back from my
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  Speaker 2: agent and auditioned over the span of a few weeks.
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  Speaker 2: For me, it felt like forever because I just wanted
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  Speaker 2: it so bad. I honestly don't know if I've wanted
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  Speaker 2: anything more. I didn't hear anything back from casting, and
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  Speaker 2: I truly thought that it was it for me, and
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to create and turn my sadness into art,
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  Speaker 2: and so I made a little spooky, little short film.
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  Speaker 2: I posted it to my Instagram. It's a visual to
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  Speaker 2: the song which is by Alice Phoebelou not even thinking
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  Speaker 2: about Wicked and like the connection between the two. And
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  Speaker 2: at the end of it, I cast a spell in it,
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  Speaker 2: and it's a spell that says good news will soon
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  Speaker 2: come knocking. And at the end you hear a knock
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  Speaker 2: at the door and the video cuts to black, and
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  Speaker 2: I post it to my Instagram and a few days
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  Speaker 2: later I hear back from casting, and in the call,
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  Speaker 2: John's talking to me about the John the director, John
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  Speaker 2: chu the John Chu Yes is talking about the characters.
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  Speaker 2: And then he stopped and he's like, I saw that
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  Speaker 2: video that you posted on social media, and nobody knows
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  Speaker 2: that you're going up for this role, so you just
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  Speaker 2: have to be careful. And I was like, why, whatever,
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  Speaker 2: right I have to skirt up all of this. I
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  Speaker 2: messed up big time. I was so anxious about it.
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  Speaker 2: And he's like, no, what, I gotta go get the door.
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  Speaker 2: There's knock at the door. And I was like, oh
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  Speaker 2: my god, of course, go get the door. And he's
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  Speaker 2: taking his camera with him, which confused me. And he
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  Speaker 2: flips his camera and he shows and it's Ariana and
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  Speaker 2: Cynthia and they have a sign that says welcome to
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  Speaker 2: UVR NASA Road.
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  Speaker 4: How your knock at the door was the.
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  Speaker 2: Knock at the door And it was just so sweet
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  Speaker 2: that he included that and just very thoughtful.
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  Speaker 4: Mercabodi, thank you so much for joining us. I also
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  Speaker 4: want to give you a shout out that you just
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  Speaker 4: recently won the Christopher Reeve Acting Award, which honors and
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  Speaker 4: recognize people with disabilities in these fields. We are so
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  Speaker 4: grateful to have you here, and we're proud of you. Yes,
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  Speaker 4: thank you, congratulations, well
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