A woman said she had been "overwhelmed" by the amount of support she had received for her work as an accessibility co-ordinator on the movie Wicked. Chantelle Nassari, who uses a wheelchair, was headhunted to work on Hollywood's take of the Broadway musical. The 53-year-old from St Albans, Hertfordshire, said she fell in love with the production after her job interview, but admitted: "I got submerged in it without any context of the enormity of what I had just accepted.
" Wicked, directed by Jonathan Murray Chu, first hit cinema screens in November and has since made about £520m worldwide. Miss Nassari's role involved looking at the set while it was being built to assess any obstacles and make sure entrances and exits were accessible for people with disabilities. "There was a lot of stuff involved, but it comes naturally to me - I look at that stuff and I scan an area and I can just adapt it," she told BBC Three Counties.
The two-and-a-half hour film stars Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Jonathan Bailey and Michelle Yeoh. Munchkinland was created in the Buckinghamshire countryside close to Ivinghoe. Throughout filming, Miss Nassari worked closely with Marissa Bode, who played Nessarose in the film.
"She is so lovely, such a sweetheart, she came here not knowing anyone - this is her first big movie. "But coming to England at her age on her own and being disabled, it was quite epic - my mother instincts kicked in, I think." She added: "I've actually been really overwhelmed by the.
