Jenny Slate and Kristen Bell might’ve garnered online praise after stepping down from voicing biracial TV characters this week amid accusations of whitewashing.
However, online detractors were quick to point out that African-American screen legend James Earl Jones voiced a “white character” in “Star Wars” sans any criticism, sparking a raging Twitter debate on race-appropriate casting.“James Earl Jones played Darth Vader a white guy, no one thought it was weird,” tweeted one naysayer in response to a post about Slate, 38, portraying biracial character Missy Foreman-Greenwald in Netflix’s “Big Mouth.” He was referencing the fact that Jones, 89, provided the voice for the space opera villain, who was played on screen in “Star Wars: The Return.
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