Jenny Slate and Kristen Bell will no longer voice biracial characters on two animated series: Netflix's 'Big Mouth' and Apple's 'Central Park.'
“Big Mouth” creators Nick Kroll, Andrew Goldberg, Mark Levin and Jennifer Flackett issued a“We sincerely apologize for and regret our original decision to cast a white actor to voice a biracial character,” they wrote. “We are proud of the representation Missy has offered cerebral, sensitive women of color, and we plan to continue that representation and further grow Missy’s character as we cast a new Black actor to play her.
Because production has already finished for the fourth season of “Big Mouth,” the season’s upcoming episodes still feature Slate as Missy. A new actor will voice the character in subsequent seasons. Netflix hadBell also announced Wednesday that she would be stepping away from the role of Molly in “Central Park.”
“Playing the character of Molly on ‘Central Park’ shows a lack of awareness of my pervasive privilege,” Bell wrote in an
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