“I was laughing a lot,” she admits.
“Everyone else around me looked so concerned.”
“When anyone falls, it’s the most terrifying thing,” Slater adds.
Ethan Slater and Marissa Bode in ‘Wicked’.Giles Keyte/Universal Pictures
“But there was also something disconcerting about how much [Marissa was] laughing as it happened.
We were like, ‘That’s got to mean that it’s bad.'”
“I am supposed to be scared in the scene itself,” she notes.
Let’s go again.’
It was so much fun."
“Learning choreography is always a scary, challenging thing,” he says.
“Because it doesn’t always feel super natural.
It informed the rest of the movie in a lot of ways.”
But is the gesture motivated by pity or, worse, a desire to capture Glinda’s attention?
“It’s such a pivotal point in the movie when they form a friendship,” adds Bode.
“To Nessa, maybe a little bit more than a friendship.
But what’s established in that moment carries through the rest of the film.”
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There’s a genuine connection in that moment that I’m really grateful for.
There’s a real bond that they form.
It just means a different thing to each of them."
Directed byJon M. Chu,Wickedthe movie starsCynthia Erivoas Elphaba and Grande as Glinda.
