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Erik Pedersen Managing EditorCentral Park star and co-creator Josh Gad said on NBC’s Today this morning that replacing Kristen Bell as the voice of a mixed-race character on the Apple TV+ series was “frankly an easy decision to make.” Watch the clip above.The move to have a TBA black actor voice the Molly character was announced Wednesday.

The Good Place star Kristen Bell has quit the role of a mixed-race character on Apple TV+ series Central Park, saying that her taking on the role in the first place showed "a lack of awareness".In a statement released on her social media pages, Kristen confirmed that she would be stepping back from the role of Molly and added that she and the Central Park creative team are pledging to "make it right" by recasting the part."This is a time to acknowledge our acts of complicity.

Kristen Bell has resigned from her voiceover role of a mixed-race girl on Apple TV+'s animated series Central Park. Molly, voiced by Bell, was the character of an aspiring comic book artist who is the daughter of a black man (voiced by Leslie Odom Jr) and a white woman (voiced by Kathryn Hahn).

Central Park.Bell plays the role of Molly in the show, whose father (voiced by Leslie Odom Jr) is a Black man, and mother (Kathryn Hahn) is a white woman.“This is a time to acknowledge our acts of complicity. Here’s one of mine,” Bell said in a statement posted to Twitter.

Will Thorne Staff WriterKristen Bell will no longer voice the mixed-race central character of Molly Tillerman in the forthcoming Apple animated series “Central Park.”The decision to re-cast the role was announced via a lengthy statement from the show’s creative team, which said that “casting of the character of Molly is an opportunity to get representation right – to cast a Black or mixed race actress and give Molly a voice that resonates with all of the nuance and experiences of the character

Also Read: 'Central Park': How Josh Gad and Loren Bouchard Assembled 'The Avengers of Musical Theater' for Apple TV+ Series“Central Park” is currently midway through airing its first season on the streaming service, and has already been picked up for a second season.Bell’s character Molly is the eldest child of the characters voiced by Leslie Odom Jr. and Kathryn Hahn.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVKristen Bell will no longer voice Molly, who is mixed-race, on Apple TV+’s animated musical comedy series Central Park. She will remain on the show, from 20th Century Fox TV, playing a new character.Netflix’s animated comedy Big Mouth made a similar change today, with Jenny Slate exiting the cast where she voice Missy, a biracial girl.

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