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.
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, 38, wrote on Instagram on Wednesday, June 24. “But ‘Missy’ is also Black and Black characters on an animated show should be played by Black people.
I acknowledge how my original reasoning was flawed, that it existed as an example of white privilege and unjust allowances made within a.
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