Netflix’s Big Mouth, Apple TV Plus’ Central Park will recast biracial characters
Jenny Slate has chosen not to pronounce a black character named Missy on Big Mouth.
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Jenny Slate and Kristen Bell will no longer speak animated characters who are people with color.
Slate plays the voice of a character named Missy on Netflix’s animated show Big mouthand Bell speaks a character named Molly on the Apple TV Plus show Central Park. Both characters have a white parent.
In a post on Instagram on Wednesday, Slate said she initially said it was okay to pronounce the character Missy because Missy’s mother is white and Jewish, as was Slate. But ultimately, she said, black characters should be played by blacks in an animated show.
“I acknowledge that my original reasoning was flawed, that it existed as an example of white privileges and unjust allowances within a system of social white supremacy, and that in my game Missy, I was engaging in an act of wiping out black people.”
Kristen Bell apologized on Instagram for “having contributed to everyone’s feeling of exclusion or obliteration.”
Big Mouth, which focuses on the weird horrors of puberty, is in his third season on Netflix. Slate has already recorded the fourth season of the show. Central Park is a musical in its first season on Apple TV Plus.
Apple did not respond to a request for comment.
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