Kristen Bell Will Also No Longer Voice an Animated Black Character

Not a Black person. Photo: Getty Images Well it has certainly been quite the day for white actresses who voice Black characters on animated series, of which there are surprisingly more than one. Earlier on Wednesday, June 24, white comedian Jenny Slate took to Instagram to announce that she would no longer provide the voice for Missy, a Black character, on Netflix’s animated comedy series Big Mouth because “Black characters on an animated show should be played by Black people.

“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 for her to play – and she has since delivered a funny, heartfelt, and beautiful performance.

While Central Park has committed to reversing this casting decision, members of the creative team defended the decision to cast Bell as a Black character as recently as January of this year. At a TCA panel in January 2020, creator Loren Bouchard said that “Kristen needed to be Molly, like we couldn’t not make her Molly. But then we couldn’t make Molly white and we couldn’t make Kristen mixed race, so we just had to go forward.

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Mixed-race people are NOT the property of 'African Americans.' Hands off, blacks!

Love it. Never seen this show, but these idiot celebrities love being woke so hard, they should enjoy losing career opportunities. GetWokeGoBroke

I respect their reasoning

Kind of silly. This is voice acting we are talking about. Do we need to hire Southerners for Southern voices? Brooklynites for Brooklyn voices?

Oh noooooo

Pushed out of a job BC of their race. Why would the media glorify that? WWG1WGA

This is a thing in 2020?

Actors should only be allowed to play themselves, like Seinfeld.

Cast AkilahObviously! She's already been on BobsBurgers

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