Jenny Slate has addressed her decision to step aside from voicing her lead character on the Netflix animated series “Big Mouth”.
Last month, amid ongoing Black Lives Matter protests, Slate announced her resignation from the role of Missy, a young Black girl on the show.
RELATED: Nick Kroll Announces Black Character Missy On ‘Big Mouth’ To Now Be Voiced By 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 wrote in an Instagram post at the time. “But ‘Missy’ is also Black, and Black characters on an animated show should be played by Black people.” Now, in a new interview on BuzzFeed‘s “News O’Clock” podcast, the actress shares
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