Actress Jenny Slate Abandons Her Role As ‘Missy’ On “Big Mouth”, Says “Black Characters Should Be Played By Black People”

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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.

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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.

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.

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

“Big Mouth” co-creator Nick Kroll took to social media today to announce that moving forward one of the animated series’ main characters, Missy, would no longer be voiced by Jenny Slate. This was made at the request of Slate who decided that the bi-racial character should be voiced by a black actor.

Nellie Andreeva, Patrick Hipes Big Mouth co-creator, executive producer and star Nick Kroll said Wednesday that the show will recast the voice role of Missy, an biracial character on the Netflix animated series, with a black actress.