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Charlie Day (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia), Jenny Slate (Parks and Recreation), Gina Rodriguez (Jane the Virgin), Scott Eastwood (Pacific Rim: Uprising), Manny Jacinto (The Good Place), and Clark Backo (Letterkenny) will lead the ensemble romantic comedy I Want You Back from Amazon Studios. Big Time Adolescence helmer Jason Orley is attached to direct the film from a screenplay by Love, Simon co-writers and This Is Us co-showrunners Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger.

Halsey to Hilary Duff, have announced their pregnancies. And since spring 2020, even more have given birth, some in secret, while others made accidental public announcements of their births.

Jenny Slate!The 38-year-old actress exclusively revealed to ET's Katie Krause on Wednesday that she has given birth to her first child, a baby girl, with fiancé Ben Shattuck.

Leave it to Jenny Slate to have an epic and unique pregnancy announcement. The actress appeared on the Dec. 10 episode of Late Night With Seth Meyers and surprised viewers by revealing that she’s expecting. The interview was virtual, and Jenny stood up to give a full view of her bump for the camera.

Jenny Slate had her own bun in the oven! The 38-year-old actress and comedian appeared on Thursday's, where she revealed for the first time that she's pregnant with her first child. «Let me tell you, on night one of the lockdown, we had a really romantic night of being together, real sweet with my fiancé,» she told Meyers of being on lockdown with her fiancé, Ben Shattuck. «And then I did what everyone else did.

Alexandra Del Rosario Associate Editor/Nights & WeekendsEXCLUSIVE: Quibi announced Tuesday that comedian and actress Jenny Slate will host and executive produce its newest docuseries Sex Plants.The program for the bite-sized streaming service will see the former Big Mouth star speak with researchers and botanical experts to learn about the most natural aphrodisiacs Earth has to offer, from roots to tree bark.

Angelique Jackson Filmmaker Dean Fleischer-Camp has signed with CAA.The director and editor is best known for the viral short “Marcel the Shell with Shoes On,” voiced by Jenny Slate. The stop-motion animated short debuted in 2010 and was an official selection at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.

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.

Nick Kroll is making some changes to the “Big Mouth” cast.

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.

stepping away from voicing the mixed-race character Molly, Apple has found her replacement in the form of “Hamilton” alumna and “Umbrella Academy” star Emmy Raver-Lampman.She will become the show’s third prominent former “Hamilton” cast member, joining Leslie Odom Jr.

“It’s lazy,” a critic in “The Sunlit Night” implores. “It’s not lazy, it just doesn’t work,” says another.

Secret Life of Pets actor appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, where she opened up about her planned wedding to art curator Ben Shattuck, which has been postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic. During the interview, the 38-year-old explained that prior to the June wedding being pushed back, she had decided to send out email invites rather than traditional paper ones – resulting in her accidentally inviting a stranger rather than one of her close friends.

Within days in late June, four animated TV shows that featured white actors voicing characters of color pledged to make changes, all with the actors' support. Netflix's Big Mouth creators said June 24 that they would cast a Black actor for the role of Missy, currently performed by Jenny Slate, while Apple TV+'s Central Park creative team said it will recast biracial character Molly, voiced by Kristen Bell.

Fox has released a statement on casting for non-white characters on “The Simpsons.”“Moving forward, ‘The Simpsons’ will no longer have white actors voice non-white characters,” the network said Friday.The move comes as several television shows have pulled episodes featuring blackface from their streaming platforms, and amid a nation dealing with controversial depictions of race on TV and film.On “The Simpsons,” Hank Azaria has been the voice of the black cartoon character Carlton Carlson.

we previously reported, actress Jenny Slate also abandoned her role on Netflix’s “Big Mouth”.She was one of the first actors to announce her resignation, and gave a lengthy explanation about her voicing a black character has contributed to racism and white privilege.  After 20 years, actor #MikeHenry has decided to step away from voicing Black character #ClevelandBrown. He says a person of color should have the role instead.

After 20 years, actor #MikeHenry has decided to step away from voicing Black character #ClevelandBrown. He says a person of color should have the role instead.

The Simpsons have announced that they will no longer be using white actors to voice people of colour on the show.“Moving forward, The Simpsons will no longer have white actors voice non-white characters,” the producers said in a short statement.This week has seen a number of white actors stepping down from animated roles in which they play those of a different race.Earlier this week white actor Jenny Slate announced that she would no longer be playing biracial character Missy in the Netflix

The Simpsons will no longer feature white actors voicing non-white characters, network Fox has said.

Twitter. “It’s been an honor to play Cleveland on Family Guy for 20 years,” he wrote.

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

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

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

 Kristen Bell and Jenny Slate are helping lead the charge of making sure that when it comes to animated roles, Black or mixed race characters should be voiced by Black or mixed race actresses. Kristen has voiced the mixed race character of “Molly” on Apple TV+’s animated musical comedy Central Park, which just finished it’s first season.

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.

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.

Jenny Slate, who has voiced the character of Missy Foreman-Greenwald since the 2017 Netflix debut of Big Mouth, has decided to leave the series to make room for a Black actor to join the show.“I have come to the decision today that I can no longer play the character of ‘Missy’ on the animated TV show Big Mouth.