Speaker 1: And that's what you really missed with Jenna.
Speaker 2: And Kevin An iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 1: Welcome to you, and that's what you really miss podcast.
Speaker 3: It's a Wicked month. We have lots and lots of wicked,
Speaker 3: Wicked recaps, Wicked guests. We are just wickeded out over here.
Speaker 3: But there's never enough wicked. So that said, we have
Speaker 3: a wonderful guest today, Marissa Body, who plays Nasa Rose
Speaker 3: in both the Wicked movies. So exciting. I cannot wait
Speaker 3: for you to hear this conversation. I was so excited
Speaker 3: to talk to her. This is amazing. We've got Nasa
Speaker 3: Rose here. Hi, Marissa, how are you?
Speaker 4: I'm good? How are you?
Speaker 1: I'm good. It's so nice to meet you. Thank you
Speaker 1: for taking the time to come chat. Of course, congratulations.
Speaker 1: Are you exhausted.
Speaker 4: I'm not completely dead yet. I've had okay, I've had
Speaker 4: a little bit of time in between, like to just decompress.
Speaker 4: Not a time, but I'll h the time. I have
Speaker 4: to decompress in between. I definitely milk as much as
Speaker 4: I can.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you have to, you have to.
Speaker 3: Well. Congratulations on Wicked on.
Speaker 1: Part two, premiering tomorrow, and.
Speaker 3: We are so excited to have you here just to
Speaker 3: talk about everything.
Speaker 1: So I want to go back a little.
Speaker 3: Bit because I know you were doing musical theater from
Speaker 3: a wee age, and I want to know how you
Speaker 3: found musical theater or how musical theater found you.
Speaker 4: I'm trying to think of the first actual musical that
Speaker 4: I did. It's hard to say, because I started doing plays.
Speaker 4: I don't think they had musicals until high school at
Speaker 4: within my school district anyways, but because I did really
Speaker 4: love musicals, I remember me and my parents, it's like
Speaker 4: seeking for musicals outside of just our districts because again,
Speaker 4: like I didn't have opportunity to do that into a
Speaker 4: high school, and I didn't want to wait until then.
Speaker 4: We'll say it was either.
Speaker 5: Maybe Annie or of course a Wizard of Oz, maybe Wow,
Speaker 5: it was the one of like the classic kid go
Speaker 5: to musicals.
Speaker 3: Of course, of course, we we just watched Annie. So
Speaker 3: it's so much fun. It's just so a formative for
Speaker 3: young women to be watching these young girls singing. You're like,
Speaker 3: I could do that and beelt my face off.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because I I think I was first introduced to
Speaker 4: musicals via musical movies and then and then later I
Speaker 4: was like, I kind of want to do that, and
Speaker 4: I did.
Speaker 3: And what, like, what were your favorites growing up? And
Speaker 3: like which ones did you always like dream to do?
Speaker 4: Definitely the Wizard was definitely Annie. It's funny because like
Speaker 4: I did have a DVD of Annie, and obviously streaming
Speaker 4: at that time any ways was not a thing, And
Speaker 4: so I watched Annie via bootleg at least like fifteen
Speaker 4: pieces on YouTube on some random channel as like an
Speaker 4: eight year old. Wow, And I, I mean I was
Speaker 4: committed clearly.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, I totally get that. Oh my gosh. And
Speaker 3: then you kind of you made your way too to Amda.
Speaker 3: What was what was the journey of like your you know,
Speaker 3: your musical theater career because you were also working as an.
Speaker 1: Art teacher before Wicked.
Speaker 3: So just like fill in the blanks for me a
Speaker 3: little bit. I'm just so curious to hear about the
Speaker 3: journey to get to uh to where you are.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Well, I I've loved musicals, but I feel like
Speaker 4: those that love musicals and musical theater nerds are like
Speaker 4: die hard. And at that point junior senior year of college,
Speaker 4: when I was applying or not college of high school,
Speaker 4: when I was applying to colleges. I was like, I
Speaker 4: like singing, but I don't know if I'm dedicated enough,
Speaker 4: and I don't know if I feel confident enough in
Speaker 4: my vocal abilities to apply as an MT major. So
Speaker 4: I actually applied to AMDA as an acting major, and
Speaker 4: I got my bachelor's in acting. And then that first
Speaker 4: year after graduating in twenty twenty one, I believe I
Speaker 4: was auditioning, also applying to jobs to survive and eat,
Speaker 4: which job market currently is awful, but it was also
Speaker 4: not great then, and so I was applying to so many,
Speaker 4: especially as a disabled person, applying to many jobs not
Speaker 4: hearing back, and finally secured a job at Boys and
Speaker 4: Girls Club Love Boys and and I was. I ended
Speaker 4: up being an after school art teacher, which is kind
Speaker 4: of ironic because I was so close to going to
Speaker 4: college for our education rather than acting, because that was
Speaker 4: more realistic, right, yeah, yeah, exactly. And I really did
Speaker 4: love working the job, but I don't know if it
Speaker 4: was necessarily something I saw myself doing for forever. And
Speaker 4: I feel that way if I were to seriously have
Speaker 4: gone into our education, like I love art, but I
Speaker 4: don't know if that's truly where my absolute passion is
Speaker 4: or was. And then Wicked happened or came into my
Speaker 4: inbox like a year after graduating college and sent in
Speaker 4: a self tape, got a phone call that that same
Speaker 4: day while at Boys and Girls club. Wow, and yeah,
Speaker 4: it is many many callback sessions after that. It was
Speaker 4: not just the one and done thing, but alas it was,
Speaker 4: it's been a journey since then.
Speaker 1: Clearly, what were you what was going through your head when.
Speaker 3: You got the the email in your inbox? Like were
Speaker 3: you like I could totally do this or You're like
Speaker 3: I'm never gonna get this. I'm just carrying.
Speaker 4: Honestly kind of kind of both because again I wasn't
Speaker 4: it said strong like singing lead or whatever, or like
Speaker 4: strong vocal abilities, and again I just was not confident
Speaker 4: enough at that time. Anyways, I will say the musical
Speaker 4: team at Wicked definitely helped my confidence in that way.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I I was like, I'm gonna do my best,
Speaker 4: Like I know I can carry a tune, but I
Speaker 4: don't know how strong in terms right vocal abilities that
Speaker 4: if they liked me enough for that, but I was
Speaker 4: fairly confident enough in my acting. And then also I
Speaker 4: had obviously seen Wicked. I had seen Wicked when I
Speaker 4: was eleven or twelve, and my mom had surprised me
Speaker 4: with tickets when it had been on the tour, and
Speaker 4: so I was obviously familiar with what it was and
Speaker 4: obviously making it to a movie and something that was
Speaker 4: so beloved, I knew how big it was and just
Speaker 4: important it was, and also the fact that they were
Speaker 4: casting authentically how important that was to me, and also
Speaker 4: just the community as a whole. So I really really
Speaker 4: didn't want to put my all into it, Like, of
Speaker 4: course I put my all in, do my best, to
Speaker 4: put my all into anything in terms of auditioning, but
Speaker 4: this was one that I really really wanted to, yeah,
Speaker 4: really push myself and just do my best. And sad
Speaker 4: they liked it enough to self tape enough to have.
Speaker 3: I mean, you the first film, you were incredible, And
Speaker 3: I'm so excited for part two for for Good, because
Speaker 3: Nasa has such an incredible arc in both films, you know,
Speaker 3: but especially just over the span of both, So I'm
Speaker 3: so excited to see it. I'm curious to hear, like
Speaker 3: what that initial filming was like for you stepping into
Speaker 3: this role of Nasa. Rose which is so beloved and
Speaker 3: so iconic, you know, and and was there like did
Speaker 3: you feel pressure going into this or you know, how
Speaker 3: did John like set this up for you guys?
Speaker 4: Well, I didn't necessarily feel outside pressure like from John
Speaker 4: or anything, but I, as a lot of artists, I
Speaker 4: put a lot of pressure on myself, especially being I
Speaker 4: don't know, I just wanted to give good representation to
Speaker 4: my community, and just because I knew I just have
Speaker 4: so many other talented peers within this community that I
Speaker 4: know also auditioned, and I'm like they were also so
Speaker 4: deserving of this, So I just want to just show
Speaker 4: that I can do it and show that it's just
Speaker 4: this responsibility within the community. I feel that I want
Speaker 4: to show that we belong. And it's the thing of
Speaker 4: like always having to feel like I have to prove
Speaker 4: myself even though I know that we are capable as actors.
Speaker 4: It's just as a disabled person, I feel like it's
Speaker 4: always gonna be there, unfortunately. But yeah, I definitely felt
Speaker 4: pressure and intimidated just because also obviously my other cast
Speaker 4: members are so incredibly talented and also just so established
Speaker 4: and have so much behind them already and within their careers,
Speaker 4: so intimidated just because of their talent, not them necessarily
Speaker 4: as people, because they've they've been nothing behind to me
Speaker 4: from from day one, really, but yeah, a lot of pressure.
Speaker 4: Definitely intimidated. But to what I go back to what
Speaker 4: I just said of just John and the rest of
Speaker 4: the cast immediately just being welcoming and kind. It definitely,
Speaker 4: of course helped helped my anxious self a little bit.
Speaker 1: For sure, for sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it it's I feel like it's just
Speaker 3: there's so many there's such high stakes in general, and
Speaker 3: then the pressure that you put on yourself as an
Speaker 3: artist is just but I but it really it came
Speaker 3: through in such a beautiful way. What however you channeled
Speaker 3: your you know, all the emotions going into something like this.
Speaker 3: It was really beautiful the way that you portrayed her,
Speaker 3: and she's so likable and warm, and it's really wonderful
Speaker 3: to see you shine on screen. And I hope that
Speaker 3: you are you're finding that confidence or have found more
Speaker 3: of that confidence.
Speaker 1: You know that you said that you.
Speaker 3: Were kind of lacking earlier on because you have such
Speaker 3: a big career ahead of you and you're such a
Speaker 3: bright star. So we're so excited to see You Shine
Speaker 3: in Part two. I I would love to know about
Speaker 3: part two about for Good because NASA has such an
Speaker 3: incredible piece and important piece of this second film.
Speaker 1: And like, what was it like did.
Speaker 3: You guys feel these I know there was the strike
Speaker 3: and you know COVID and all of that.
Speaker 1: But did you guys do these back to back?
Speaker 3: And then what was it like like shifting the tone
Speaker 3: for knowing that it was going to be a different film.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we did film back to back. I know some
Speaker 4: of the cast members they there, they did some stuff
Speaker 4: from film one and then they would jump to film too.
Speaker 4: But for me, just the way the schedule played out.
Speaker 4: The schedule was also like ever changing as a lot
Speaker 4: of the time past, But for me it worked out
Speaker 4: in the way of all my film one stuff just
Speaker 4: happened to be filmed before we even touched my two stuff,
Speaker 4: which for me was helpful in the way of having
Speaker 4: all of that in mind and having all of that
Speaker 4: memory done and into action and then jumping into something
Speaker 4: in terms of context, which is so different from from
Speaker 4: the first the first film. Neessa, Yeah, yeah, that it
Speaker 4: was helpful. And also there was a lot of work
Speaker 4: that I had to put into in terms of filling
Speaker 4: in the blinks in terms of either blinks that weren't
Speaker 4: necessarily written into the scripts, like extra back story for Nessa,
Speaker 4: how she grew up fully fully of course you see
Speaker 4: a little bit of that in the first film at
Speaker 4: the beginning, but more so the time jump in between
Speaker 4: the first film and the second film. I definitely had
Speaker 4: to fill in blinks for myself in terms of how
Speaker 4: she goes from who she is at the end of
Speaker 4: film one to who she is at the beginning of
Speaker 4: film two. And I did that by journaling a lot
Speaker 4: as Nasa, which really was very helpful. It was very
Speaker 4: helpful in terms of context and keeping it in mind,
Speaker 4: although like once I'm actually on set and we're in
Speaker 4: go mode, obviously keeping that in my head, but sometimes
Speaker 4: when you're in a scene and you're there, you're not
Speaker 4: necessarily thinking about all of that per se once you're dialogue.
Speaker 4: But it was definitely helpful just to keep in mind
Speaker 4: and to really dive into that headspace as Yeah, she changes,
Speaker 4: for sure, and she has an arc, but I really do,
Speaker 4: I honestly do. I know a lot of people say
Speaker 4: Nanessa's villain arc, but for me, yes, she she plays
Speaker 4: a villain per se. But and I know it's truly
Speaker 4: my job as an actor to have that empathy for
Speaker 4: my character. But I really really do understand her. Like
Speaker 4: when people say villain origin story, like this is my
Speaker 4: that would have been my villain origin story. Yeah, Like
Speaker 4: for Vanessa, it makes sense why she does what she does,
Speaker 4: not justifying it. I can't defend my girl on everything,
Speaker 4: but I really really do understand it. She it comes
Speaker 4: from a place of in my opinion anyways, and how
Speaker 4: I went about it, it all comes from a place
Speaker 4: of hurt that has manifested into anger. But at the
Speaker 4: core of all of it, it really is just her
Speaker 4: in heartbreak and real human things that a lot of
Speaker 4: people go through. Don't always handle it in that way,
Speaker 4: and I would actually recommend to not handle it in
Speaker 4: the way that nessa happens, But I really really do
Speaker 4: understand it.
Speaker 1: Hmm. Well, that I'm sure will.
Speaker 3: Come through in a way that I haven't seen the
Speaker 3: film obviously yet, the second one, but it'll just make
Speaker 3: her just more complex and more relatable. And you know,
Speaker 3: if you see her that way and you understand her
Speaker 3: at the deepest level, you know most importantly.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I mean, I think the story is full
Speaker 4: of complex characters. I think all the characters really in
Speaker 4: Wicked are so complex in so many different ways, and
Speaker 4: there's so many layers to them, and there I don't
Speaker 4: think the characters are any of them really. I think
Speaker 4: multiple characters do play at least the little bit of
Speaker 4: a villain in some ways at some point or another,
Speaker 4: But I don't think that makes a person inherently evil
Speaker 4: or all completely bad. And I think the film does
Speaker 4: a good job of showing that, of showing the pockets
Speaker 4: of humanity within all of them and the goodness in
Speaker 4: all of them, whether that was in the first film
Speaker 4: or if you still see those pockets of humanity with
Speaker 4: second film, or in characters like Glinda, really see her
Speaker 4: humanity and her desires and what makes her human jump
Speaker 4: out a lot more in my opinion, And honestly, I
Speaker 4: think for me, in the movie version, I see I
Speaker 4: understand Glinda's character a little bit more than I do
Speaker 4: the stage version, and understand where she's coming from a
Speaker 4: little bit more than I do in the stage.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think that's the beauty of like what
Speaker 3: John did with these films was like something so beloved
Speaker 3: and so successful at what it did on stage elevated
Speaker 3: into this piece of art that didn't. It just expanded
Speaker 3: the universe and the world and the characters and their
Speaker 3: development versus just translating it. And so I think that's
Speaker 3: why it's so successful and why and to the to
Speaker 3: your point about the characters, like these very strong female
Speaker 3: characters at the Helm that are complex and flawed and
Speaker 3: layered and still lovable and human is what makes this
Speaker 3: so dynamic and so and I think resonates with a
Speaker 3: lot of people because you know, there's so much out
Speaker 3: there that you don't get to see female characters like
Speaker 3: this that have such complexity to them, where you get
Speaker 3: to play with all these layers and all these pieces.
Speaker 1: That's just like an you know, a dream for actors.
Speaker 3: So what a what a joy to watch you guys
Speaker 3: and Cynthia and Ariana just.
Speaker 1: Dive like straight in. It's really really exciting to see.
Speaker 4: Yeah, on just the work that my my co stars
Speaker 4: have have put into this and the passion that they have.
Speaker 4: I know, I feel like the first film, like in interviews,
Speaker 4: everyone's like meming them of their like tears and whatever else.
Speaker 4: But I was like I get it, Like, yeah, I
Speaker 4: think women should be allowed to express emotion without it
Speaker 4: being I don't know, like something that's like I don't know,
Speaker 4: and I don't know. I just think women should be
Speaker 4: allowed to exist and express any emotion really without it
Speaker 4: being a whole thing.
Speaker 3: You know, yes, yes, we normalize it, right, Yeah, normalize that.
Speaker 3: I would love to hear we saw some spoilers or
Speaker 3: in the trail or at least of some things that
Speaker 3: are a little bit different from the stage production to
Speaker 3: the movie with Nessa, and I would just love to know,
Speaker 3: like what the conversation was and how collaborative it was,
Speaker 3: how much of a part of it, Like were you
Speaker 3: a part of that decision and in bringing NASA to
Speaker 3: fly versus to walk, and how important that was to
Speaker 3: you personally, and you know, I'd love to hear that story.
Speaker 4: Yeah. So I was honestly one of the last people
Speaker 4: cast in the film altogether. I think Michelle came a
Speaker 4: little bit later also, but I know I was one
Speaker 4: of the last cast members cast, and so by that
Speaker 4: point the script was really already written. So I wasn't
Speaker 4: necessarily a part of the changes in the script. And
Speaker 4: I didn't find out actually until I hadn't met Winnie Holsman,
Speaker 4: who's one of the main writers of Wicked. I hadn't
Speaker 4: met her actually until the first film had come out,
Speaker 4: and we have this celebratory dinner party, and I was
Speaker 4: just talking with her, and she had said that she
Speaker 4: had heard some of the feedback from the disabled community
Speaker 4: about the portrayal of Nessa on stage and how it
Speaker 4: feeds into harm of full stereotypes and makes her a
Speaker 4: little bit more one dimensional of and a little bit
Speaker 4: more predictable of Oh, I'm a disabled character. The only
Speaker 4: thing about me, not only thing, but the main thing
Speaker 4: about me is I don't like being disabled. She wanted
Speaker 4: to do right by the community and really flesh her
Speaker 4: out a lot more, and so she talked to one
Speaker 4: of her disabled friends to get insight that way, which
Speaker 4: already just like a great, a great step in the
Speaker 4: right direction of talking to someone who's actually disabled. And she,
Speaker 4: of course without changing the story too much and then
Speaker 4: keeping the magic within it all changing it in a
Speaker 4: way that makes the portrayal a little bit more healthy
Speaker 4: and also makes Nissa a little bit more fleshed out
Speaker 4: and a little bit less one dimensional and less. I
Speaker 4: hate my disability, and that's the main thing about me. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and so yeah, as you see in the trailer, Nessa
Speaker 4: does rather than stand, she does floats in the air.
Speaker 4: And again the magic is still there, but Nessa's desires
Speaker 4: are are different, and I was really happy with the changes.
Speaker 4: Of course, ambulatory wheelchair users exist, and we see that
Speaker 4: with Jenna on Broadway right now. Incredible. I think she
Speaker 4: does an incredible job. But that wasn't necessarily the storyline itself,
Speaker 4: like Nasa wasn't ambulatory, and now that she can stand,
Speaker 4: it was more so. Oh, I want to be fixed
Speaker 4: because I loathe my disability. And of course that can
Speaker 4: be true to some disabled people, but for a lot
Speaker 4: of us that's not true. And if anything, I think
Speaker 4: it plays into the cycle of disability and the representation
Speaker 4: of disability in the way of disabled person hates their
Speaker 4: disability because society deems it's bad. Therefore it's portrayed as bad,
Speaker 4: and then we're back in that cycle of disabled person
Speaker 4: hates their disability because it's portrayed that way. And yeah,
Speaker 4: and of course I don't speak for the whole disabled community,
Speaker 4: and all disabilities are different, and sometimes having a disability,
Speaker 4: especially if it's something like chronic pain, it can be
Speaker 4: frustrating to have, but I think a lot of the
Speaker 4: things are societal based, and so it's not necessarily all
Speaker 4: of our story or all of who we are as
Speaker 4: human beings. So I am really happy with that change.
Speaker 4: I will say I'm extremely happy and honestly believed a
Speaker 4: little bit with the feedback that I've seen so far,
Speaker 4: just based off the trailer of the change is because
Speaker 4: it's so beloved already on stage. It's one of those
Speaker 4: things where if you change like the littlest bit of things,
Speaker 4: like the die hard fans.
Speaker 1: Will be like no, like why.
Speaker 4: So I was so anxious and so nervous, even though
Speaker 4: I knew in my heart that it was right in
Speaker 4: terms overall the view of disability and how it's portrayed.
Speaker 4: But I was very very anxious. And I know there's
Speaker 4: going to be still people out there that don't necessarily agree,
Speaker 4: and that's okay, and I think that's art in general.
Speaker 4: Is not everyone's going to agree with how a story's told.
Speaker 4: But I ultimately I'm really happy, little bit relieved that
Speaker 4: other people didn't hate it. Yeah, but I'm I'm happy.
Speaker 3: Speaking of like feedback from the community, Uh, what has
Speaker 3: been the feedback from your you know, the disabled community
Speaker 3: in terms of your portrayal of Nasa Rose and like
Speaker 3: having representation on screen, Like, I'm sure that's so important,
Speaker 3: So I'm just curious if like you felt that, and
Speaker 3: you know, meeting fans and meeting people out in the world.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's It's been really great to be a part
Speaker 4: of that, because I I really do want to give
Speaker 4: credit to where credit to do and all those that
Speaker 4: have come before me that have already set the groundwork
Speaker 4: for being in in roles like I am now, like
Speaker 4: Gillian Riccado, Lolo Spencer, Ali Stroker, George Robinson, just just
Speaker 4: a handful of other disabled people who have done it
Speaker 4: before me. I'm definitely not the first, but to be
Speaker 4: a part of something so big as as we kid
Speaker 4: and for them to do right by it and cast authentically,
Speaker 4: I think is so important. And to be a part
Speaker 4: of that representation now for other disabled people has been
Speaker 4: really really great, And just other disabled people looking up
Speaker 4: to me in that way has been really honoring and
Speaker 4: I feel so incredibly honored for that. And then also
Speaker 4: to take it a bit further in the way of
Speaker 4: using my platform to speak up for disability issues that
Speaker 4: extend so far beyond representation. Because of course it's incredible
Speaker 4: for other disabled performers to see another disabled actor on
Speaker 4: a stage in a movie or in a movie this big,
Speaker 4: but also recognizing that there's so many other issues that
Speaker 4: we need to really survive, So using my platform to
Speaker 4: amplify spaces for that affordable and accessible housing, like like
Speaker 4: things like currently especially like things like snap benefits when
Speaker 4: it's already so hard for disabled people to find work
Speaker 4: and for a lot of disabled people, especially those with
Speaker 4: that are immune compromised or or that live with chronic pain,
Speaker 4: that's extremely debilitating, like they can't work and or pushing
Speaker 4: themselves to work is makes it even more debilitating to
Speaker 4: just exist. So things like that, I do my best
Speaker 4: to use my voice and encourage others also to use
Speaker 4: their voice as well.
Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely, absolutely good and good for you.
Speaker 3: Good for you for not shying away from that. I
Speaker 3: think it's empowering to see and important.
Speaker 1: So, you know, kudos.
Speaker 3: We Get is such a huge, a monster debut of
Speaker 3: like your career in so many ways, and from the
Speaker 3: premieres to you know, the production, I'm curious like to
Speaker 3: hear some of the highlights of.
Speaker 1: The Wicked experience that you've had thus far.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, definitely, it's been a very long journey,
Speaker 4: so there's a lot in there for sure. Of course,
Speaker 4: number one highlight is being cast in it to begin
Speaker 4: with that, and it just being so special. Basically they
Speaker 4: told me that all of it was over zoom, by
Speaker 4: the way, because everyone else was already in London. But
Speaker 4: they had lied, but like in the best way. They
Speaker 4: had told me that it was a callback, my last callback.
Speaker 4: They told me it was a callback, but it was
Speaker 4: really them telling me that I got the part, which
Speaker 4: was very very special, and they they surprised me by
Speaker 4: including Ari and Cynthia in it as well, which was
Speaker 4: just like, oh my god, fully so mind owing and
Speaker 4: more than I ever would have thought would have been.
Speaker 4: Like they could have just like called my manager and
Speaker 4: my manager have told me or just have I don't know,
Speaker 4: they could have just set in an email like congratulations,
Speaker 4: but which also, by the way, would have been I
Speaker 4: would have taken that. But yeah, I could have step
Speaker 4: further and made it show. So first of all, set
Speaker 4: the precedent for it just being welcoming in this journey
Speaker 4: being welcoming in the first place. But second of all,
Speaker 4: doing it in a way that was just so thoughtful
Speaker 4: and so above and beyond was that that was definitely
Speaker 4: a highlight and just set a precedent for what was
Speaker 4: to come. And then also traveling. I had never had
Speaker 4: the funds to travel ever. This was my first time
Speaker 4: out of the country ever in my life. So that's
Speaker 4: also been a huge highlight for sure. And I've I've
Speaker 4: had a lot of fun. I've loved getting to know
Speaker 4: London a little bit more. That's where we filmed, really
Speaker 4: and love Hyde Park. I just there's a lot that
Speaker 4: I love about London. It's such a beautiful, beautiful city.
Speaker 1: So much culture too, so much culture culture.
Speaker 4: I know a lot of people do do on I
Speaker 4: don't know if I'm allowed to curse, I'm gonna say
Speaker 4: do doo. Okay, then people on British food, But there's
Speaker 4: a lot of really good British food. You guys just
Speaker 4: aren't looking in the right spots. I don't.
Speaker 1: That's right, that's right.
Speaker 4: Like hurry, Like there's a lot of really good de
Speaker 4: furree out there. There's a little really good Thai food,
Speaker 4: Malaysian food out there, like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, on spots, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: And so I've enjoyed that. I'm a little bit of
Speaker 4: a foodie, so I've really enjoyed that. Of course, the
Speaker 4: cast has been great meat and I always this but
Speaker 4: it's so true, but meeting younger Anessa for the first
Speaker 4: time was definitely a highlight. I'm still so close with
Speaker 4: her family today. I see them often. She's grown so
Speaker 4: much and she grows so fast, her and her younger
Speaker 4: sister so crazy, right, Yeah, Like her sister was a
Speaker 4: baby baby when when they were filming, and now she sprouted,
Speaker 4: she's huge.
Speaker 1: They were all really fast.
Speaker 4: So fast, And I know it's so cliche to say,
Speaker 4: and I know people say that all the time about kids,
Speaker 4: but what it's expected. Yeah, but they've grown so fast.
Speaker 4: But I also, on that note, I'm so like I one,
Speaker 4: she feels like my sister, like that, that's my sister's frail.
Speaker 4: But I'm just I'm so proud of her and just
Speaker 4: how far she's calme and just the confidence that she's found,
Speaker 4: and like it almost makes me emotional just because like, uh,
Speaker 4: like I I I really do love her so much
Speaker 4: and I love her family so incredibly much. Like that
Speaker 4: that really is my family for real. Yeah, I can't
Speaker 4: say enough good about them. They are I love them
Speaker 4: so dearly, I really really do.
Speaker 3: It seems like you guys all are very tight and
Speaker 3: like there's like you have really formed like a family
Speaker 3: that you're walking away with like that, maybe only you
Speaker 3: guys can understand what that experience was like and what
Speaker 3: it's been like for you all to do this together.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean when you spend I was over there
Speaker 4: for about seven months, so it was oh my six
Speaker 4: seven months, and they, oh my god, no, they're gonna
Speaker 4: mean that the whole six seven meme that was my bad.
Speaker 2: No, Okay, we're gonna redacted, redacted.
Speaker 6: That was not intentional. That was not intentional. I'm gonna say.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna say six months, six months.
Speaker 2: About that we were over there, So that's half a year,
Speaker 2: half year, so that you obviously like get to know
Speaker 2: people a lot more.
Speaker 4: I will say, like currently, like I I am so bad.
Speaker 4: I am so bad at following up, and I'm so
Speaker 4: bad at answering anybody's text and most of them are
Speaker 4: not most of them, but like Ari, I know a
Speaker 4: lot of the time, and I know Ethan and and
Speaker 4: Bowen are all in New York really and I'm on
Speaker 4: the West coast, so it can be tricky to like stay,
Speaker 4: but I know when we do see each other in person,
Speaker 4: of course they're it's like right back to them being
Speaker 4: like just so kind and and very open. So I
Speaker 4: appreciate that always.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, well, it's been a quite the journey,
Speaker 3: So congratulations.
Speaker 1: On the legacy you guys are leaving.
Speaker 3: It's so the hype is real and we're all so excited.
Speaker 1: I have to ask before I let you go, like
Speaker 1: did you watch Glee back in the day or did
Speaker 1: you know what Glee was?
Speaker 4: Well, of course I know what Glee is.
Speaker 3: It's okay.
Speaker 1: If not, it's really okay.
Speaker 4: I of course know what Glee is. And then it's
Speaker 4: so funny because I don't remember anything about it, to
Speaker 4: be honest, but I do. I either remember watching it
Speaker 4: as unfortunately and I don't know why, and also my
Speaker 4: mother should have taken the remote away from me, but
Speaker 4: I watched it as like an eight year old, and
Speaker 4: I was like, I probably should shouldn't have been doing that.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, we had a lot of really young folk
Speaker 3: watching it, and they would come up to us and
Speaker 3: we would.
Speaker 1: Say like, are you should you be watching the show.
Speaker 1: Are you old enough to watch the show? They're like, well,
Speaker 1: sometimes I watched the music and then I pass forward.
Speaker 4: I definitely did not fast forward, and I definitely watched
Speaker 4: all of it, but I don't remember. Like, but then,
Speaker 4: like every now and then, there will be a clip
Speaker 4: online that comes out of this, and I was like,
Speaker 4: this is the absurd show I've ever seen. I should
Speaker 4: go back and watch all of it.
Speaker 1: It really is.
Speaker 3: It is absurd and it's completely unhinged. And if you
Speaker 3: go back, and if you decide to go back and
Speaker 3: watch any of it, just remember it's it's actually a satire.
Speaker 1: Like there, it's a satire.
Speaker 3: And you're like, if you lean into that, you're like, oh, okay,
Speaker 3: I see what they're doing. Because I think a lot
Speaker 3: of people miss took that when they were watching it
Speaker 3: for this like drama that we were not at all and.
Speaker 1: Did not take ourselves seriously. So that's that's really funny.
Speaker 1: But yes, I had to I had to ask.
Speaker 4: We ask everybody who.
Speaker 3: Came on the show when we were recapping Glee, what
Speaker 3: is the feeling that.
Speaker 4: Lee leaves you with?
Speaker 1: So I just have to ask you, what is the
Speaker 1: feeling that wicked leaves you with.
Speaker 4: Oh my goodness, gratefulness. Really, I really am grateful for
Speaker 4: all that it's giving me in terms of obviously and
Speaker 4: of course horse career, and then what I get to
Speaker 4: share with the world and emote to the world, and
Speaker 4: the platform that it's helped me build in terms of
Speaker 4: using my voice. I know, as I mentioned earlier, So
Speaker 4: I'm just yeah, grateful more than anything.
Speaker 3: Well, thank you so much for We're grateful for you
Speaker 3: for taking the time to come on the show and
Speaker 3: talk to us and share your journey. We're so excited
Speaker 3: to see you shine In for Good and it's out tomorrow,
Speaker 3: you guys, so go see it.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you all have your tickets already.
Speaker 3: But congratulations, and we can't wait to see what you
Speaker 3: do next.
Speaker 1: And we are we're rooting for you.
Speaker 4: And thank you so much, Thank you so much. I
Speaker 4: really appreciate it.
Speaker 3: This is bad no, so so wonderful chatting with you,
Speaker 3: and truly I'm like such a fan. I think you're
Speaker 3: so wonderful and I really can't wait to see what's
Speaker 3: what's next for you. So thank you, thank you.
Speaker 4: Thank you so much. Thanks congratulations.
Speaker 1: It's nice to meet you.
Speaker 4: It's lovely to meet you toobe bye bye.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, what a sweet, sweet muffin. Marisa is amazing.
Speaker 3: Thank you to Marissa for coming on and the all
Speaker 3: the time that you're spending doing all of this press
Speaker 3: and all of the premieres. We're so grateful you took
Speaker 3: the time to come chat with us, and I hope
Speaker 3: you guys enjoyed it. Obviously, go see Wicked for Good.
Speaker 3: It's officially in theaters tomorrow. Tell us what you think
Speaker 3: right in and we'll see you next time.
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