Wickedly Good with Marissa Bode
And That's What You REALLY Missed
iHeartPodcasts
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
We are 'Dancing Through Life' with Nessarose from "Wicked" the movie musical!
Marissa Bode joins Jenna to talk about "Wicked: For Good" finally hitting the big screen! She reveals some of the changes made to Nessa's character in part two, her feelings on being a part of authentic disabled casting, the close relationships she developed during the six-month production, and her reaction to the Ariana and Cynthia tears memes. Plus, Marissa also reflects on her journey to "Wicked" and the callback surprise that set the tone for her entire filming experience!
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:05.6 | And that's what you really missed with Jenna. |
| 0:08.8 | And Kevin, an IHeart Radio podcast. |
| 0:13.7 | Welcome to you, and that's what you really miss podcast. |
| 0:17.5 | It's Wicked Month. |
| 0:20.0 | We have lots and lots of wickedicked, Wicked Recaps, Wicked Guests. |
| 0:26.7 | We are just Wickeded out over here, but there's never enough Wicked. |
| 0:31.4 | So, that said, we have a wonderful guest today, Marissa Bodie, who plays Nessa Rose in both the Wicked movies. So exciting. I cannot wait for you to hear this conversation. I was so excited to talk to her. This is amazing. We've got Nessa Rose here. Hi, Marissa. How are you? I'm good. How are you? I'm good. So nice to meet you. Thank you for taking the time to come |
| 0:56.0 | chat. Of course. Congratulations. Are you exhausted? I'm not completely dead yet. I've had a little |
| 1:05.6 | bit of time in between, like to just decompress. Not a ton, but the time I have to decompress in between, |
| 1:14.3 | I definitely milk as much as I can. |
| 1:16.7 | Yeah, you have to. |
| 1:18.0 | You have to. |
| 1:20.1 | Well, congratulations on Wicked, on Part 2 premiering tomorrow. |
| 1:27.3 | And we are so excited to have you here just to talk about everything. |
| 1:32.4 | So I want to go back a little bit because I know you were doing musical theater from a |
| 1:39.1 | wee age and I wanted to know how you found musical theater or how musical theater found you. |
| 1:46.7 | I'm trying to think of the first actual musical that I did. |
| 1:50.7 | It's hard to say because I started doing plays. |
| 1:53.8 | I don't think they had musicals until high school within my school district anyways. |
| 1:59.1 | But because I did really love musicals, |
| 2:01.9 | I remember me and my parents, like, |
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