Jenny Slate Exits ‘Big Mouth’, Will No Longer Voice Black Character

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.

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

30 Rock and Golden Girls have been pulled from streaming services for (though the jury is definitely on that GG example), it seems like a more urgent transformation is happening in the world of animated TV. So far, , , Family Guy, and more shows are starting to answer for casting white actors as characters of color.

LOS ANGELES -- “Family Guy” voice actor Mike Henry said Friday he is stepping down from the role of Cleveland Brown on the Fox animated series. Henry wrote on Twitter that he will stop playing the show’s main African American character because “persons of color should play characters of color.” The 54-year-old voice actor, who is a white man, has voiced the character since the series’ debut in 1999.

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

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

After some backlash over voicing two mixed-race characters on animated productions, Kristen Bell and Jenny Slate have decided to give up the gigs. Furthermore, they both called for black actresses to take over the roles.

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Kristen Bell will no longer be voicing the role of Molly Tillerman on “Central Park”. The actress has voiced the character since the animated show debuted on Apple TV+ last month, but the role will now be recast with a Black or multiracial actress. The character of Molly is biracial.

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.

Kristen Bell will no longer be voicing the role of Molly Tillerman on . The actress has voiced the character since the animated show debuted on Apple TV+ last month, but the role will now be recast with a Black or multiracial actress.

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.

Kristen Bell will not return as the voice of “Central Park‘s” mixed race Molly, should Apple TV+ renew the animated musical comedy for a second season.The animated series’ producing team of Loren Bouchard, Josh Gad, Nora Smith, Halstead Sullivan and Sanjay Shah made the announcement on Wednesday, saying in a statement, “Kristen Bell is an extraordinarily talented actress who joined the cast of ‘Central Park’ from nearly the first day of the show’s development — before there was even a character