Black Comedian Ayo Edebiri To Voice Missy On ‘Big Mouth’, Replaces Jenny Slate

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Actress and comedian Ayo Edebiri has been announced as Jenny Slate’s replacement on Netflix animated comedy Big Mouth.

Slate vacated the voice role in June amid a cultural reckoning. The character of Missy is biracial. Edebiri will make her debut in the penultimate episode of season 4, which premieres this fall, and will continue to voice the character for future seasons.

Big Mouth has cast Ayo Edebiri to voice Missy, replacing Jenny Slate.The comedy writer and performer will first join the show in the penultimate episode of season four, taking over from Slate who voiced the character since the show’s inception.On her kinship with the character, Edibiri told Variety, “I was definitely a very uncomfortable child, so I think the show speaks to that and a lot of those feelings, which still resonate with me as an adult.“I’m back home in my childhood bedroom right now

Big Mouth has found its new Missy.

Netflix‘s Big Mouth has found its new Missy.

Variety. “I’m back home in my childhood bedroom right now and on my bookshelf in between ‘A Series of Unfortunate Events’ is Bill Clinton’s autobiography and Nelson Mandela’s autobiography and a translation of ‘The Iliad’ in Latin.

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Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorNetflix has cast Jenny Slate’s replacement as Missy on its animated series Big Mouth, Deadline has confirmed.The series’ co-creator, executive producer and star Nick Kroll said in June that the show would recast the voice role of Missy, a biracial character on the Netflix animated series, with a black actress.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVTwo months after Jenny Slate announced she would no longer voice the character of Missy on “Big Mouth,” the Netflix animated puberty comedy has found her replacement: writer, producer, comedian and actor Ayo Edebiri.“I was definitely a very uncomfortable child, so I think the show speaks to that and a lot of those feelings, which still resonate with me as an adult,” Edebiri tells Variety.

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