Jenny Slate Exits ‘Big Mouth’: Black Animated Characters ‘Should Be Played by Black People’

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Jenny Slate has addressed her decision to step aside from voicing her lead character on the Netflix animated series “Big Mouth”.

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Jenny Slate has quit cult animated show Big Mouth because her character is supposed to be biracial.The 38-year-old has announced she’s stepping down from the role of Missy on the hit Netflix series, because a black actress should voice the part.“At the start of the show, I reasoned with myself that it was permissible for me to play Missy because her mom is Jewish and white – as am I.

Central Park, cosigned a statement by the animated series announcing that Bell would no longer voice the role. However, Bell will apparently remain on the show as a new character. “This is a time to acknowledge our acts of complicity,” to the statement in her caption.

Jenny Slate and Kristen Bell might’ve garnered online praise after stepping down from voicing biracial TV characters this week amid accusations of whitewashing.

Kristen Bell and Jenny Slate are stepping down from their respective animated TV gigs on Apple TV+‘s Central Park and Netflix‘s Big Mouth.

Big Mouth actor Jenny Slate has announced that she’ll no longer be voicing biracial character Missy in the Netflix cartoon.After playing the character for three seasons since the show first aired back in 2017, Slate has decided to step down from the role in favour of a Black actor.“At the start of the show, I reasoned with myself that it was permissible for me to play Missy because her mom is Jewish and White — as am I,” Slate said in a statement on Instagram. “But Missy is also Black, and Black

black and black characters should be played by black people.

Jenny Slate has quit cult animated show Big Mouth, because her character is supposed to be biracial.

Jenny Slate is stepping away from .The 38-year-old actress revealed via Instagram on Wednesday that she will no longer be voicing Missy, as the character from the animated Netflix series is biracial, and she is white.«At the start of the show, I reasoned with myself that it was permissible for me to play 'Missy' because her mom is Jewish and white — as am I. But 'Missy' is also Black, and Black characters on an animated show should be played by Black people,» she said.

Jenny Slate announced that she can no longer voice Missy — a character that's been lauded as sensitive portrayal of sweet, weird, and brilliant Black girls — on Netflix's Big Mouth. "At the start of the show, I reasoned with myself that it was permissible for me to play Missy because her mom is Jewish and White — as am I. But Missy is also Black, and Black characters on an animated show should be played by Black people," said Slate.

Slate wrote on Instagram. “But ‘Missy’ is also Black and Black characters on an animated show should be played by Black people.”“As I look back on the nature and emergence of my own voice in comedy, I know that I have made mistakes along the way,” Slate continued.

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