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'Wicked' star Marissa Bode says she won't apologize for not mourning Charlie Kirk
Wicked star Marissa Bode doesn't plan to back down to people who call her "hateful" for not mourning the death of far-right agitator Charlie Kirk.Following the Turning Point USA founder being shot and killed during a speech at Utah Valley University on Wednesday, many have shared their thoughts. Now, Marissa Bode, who plays Elphaba's sister, Nessarose, in the Wicked films, has added her two cents.Bode said in a TikTok posted this week that she will not apologize for not mourning the death of a man whom she views as a "nazi.""Being called hateful because I don't feel an ounce of sympathy for a man whose whole career was built on being a bigot? Wild work. Mental gymnastics," Bode says at the start of the video."Hey, did you know he said that dying by gun is a price we would all have to pay to keep the Second Amendment? Hey, did you know he cheered on Palestinian deaths, of course, which includes literal children? Saying the Civil Rights Act, which protects my people and gave my people freedom, was a mistake? Baby, that's a nazi," she continues. "And if I'm hateful for not giving a fuck, really think about what you're saying, babes."Bode then called out people for sanitizing Kirk's hateful and violent rhetoric by saying he was killed "for his political beliefs," but not expanding on what those beliefs were."That is racism, babes. That is xenophobia. That is misogyny. To just simply package it and boil it down to 'political beliefs' is actually mind-boggling," she says in the TikTok. "Those are human rights. Those are real people, real people suffering, that he's talking about and actively oppressing and actively spreading hate speech [about] therefore emboldening a whole crowd of people to thus become more and more hateful and violent." Bode also took exception to the argument that, because Kirk was a husband and father, people shouldn't say bad things about him. She pointed out that "a lot of bad people are fathers and husbands" and that having children doesn't "absolve them of being a terrible human being." And while she emphasized that she has sympathy for Kirk's children, she said, "I also have such sympathy for the children in Gaza who are consistently still being bombed that again, he cheered on."She closed out the statement by saying that if Hitler were shot today, she believes a lot of the people saying Kirk shouldn't be criticized would say the same thing about the former leader of Nazi Germany.Bode's comments are strikingly opposed to those of another Wicked star, Kristin Chenoweth, who wrote on Kirk's final Instagram post: "I'm. So. Upset. Didn't always agree but appreciated some perspectives. What a heartbreak. His young family. I know where he is now. Heaven. But still."Watch Bode's entire TikTok below.Idgaf and yall can't make me @marissa_edobIdgaf and yall cant make me Idgaf and yall can't make me
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