Actress Marissa Bode has revealed one beloved detail from The Wizard of Oz you won't be seeing in the highly-anticipated movie, Wicked.
One of the most memorable parts of 1939 film The Wizard of Oz is the iconic pair of magical ruby red slippers Judy Garland wears and clicks together three times to take her back home to Kansas.
The glitzy red shoes are worn in the long-running musical Wicked by The Wicked Witch of the West's sister Nessarose, played by Bode in the upcoming movie adaptation.
Speaking to 9honey Celebrity on the red carpet at the Wicked premiere in Sydney, Bode reveals her character's shoes look different in the new film.
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Marissa Bode spoke to 9honey Celebrity at the Wicked premiere in Sydney. (Supplied/Mark Metcalfe for Universal Pictures)READ MORE: Dawson's Creek star reveals cancer diagnosis
"Well, in this version they are jewelled shoes," she says.
Bode praised costume designer Paul Tazewell for the change, gushing "I love his mind".
"He is so thoughtful in everything he does. My mind was blown seeing those for the first time and to have the privilege of me wearing them, incredible."
She also spoke to 9honey Celebrity about how important it is to be making history as the first actress playing Nessarose who uses a wheelchair in real life.
Bode says it is "incredibly important for other people to see themselves" represented on screen, explaining she "didn't have that growing up".
The actress adds: "On top of that, being in such a major film that is Wicked, for this to be that, so incredibly important."
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"I am so honoured to be here and be a part of that for so many other disabled people and disabled kids."
Bode attended the Australian premiere at Sydney's State Theatre on Sunday October 3 with her co-stars Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, Jonathan Bailey, Jeff Goldblum and Ethan Slater.
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Wicked tells the story of an unexpected friendship between the pink-obsessed Glinda and the green-skinned Elphaba before she became The Wicked Witch of the West.
The show started out in Broadway in 2003 as an adaptation of Gregory Maguire's 1995 novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West.
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Bode stars as Nessarose in Wicked. (Universal Pictures)Pop superstar Grande stars as Glinda while Tony Award winner Erivo plays Elphaba in the upcoming major motion picture.
9honey Celebrity also spoke to Bode's co-star Ethan Slater on the Sydney red carpet, who plays her on-screen love-interest, the Munchkin Boq.
Slater gushed his co-star is "amazing and brilliant and you guys are gonna fall in love with her" after seeing her performance in Wicked.
Wicked part one comes out in Australian cinemas on November 21.
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