Wicked
Spoilers Alert: This article contains spoilers for Wicked: Part 1.
WARNING:This article contains references to sexual assault.
Elphaba’s youth and backstory inWickedhelp form the basis of the story.
The movie provides some interesting insight into her past, but naturally leaves a few things ambiguous.
In the musical and movie, it’s revealed that Melena died giving birth toher second daughter, Nessarose.
She assures Elphaba that, regardless of her green skin, she is a beautiful person.
Wicked adapts the Broadway musical into a two-part film, following the unlikely friendship between Elphaba, born with green skin, and Glinda, a popular aristocrat, in the Land of Oz. As they navigate their contrasting paths, they evolve into Glinda the Good and the Wicked Witch of the West.
