Kristen Bell quits role as mixed-race character on animated show ‘Central Park’
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nme.comCentral Park.Bell plays the role of Molly in the show, whose father (voiced by Leslie Odom Jr) is a Black man, and mother (Kathryn Hahn) is a white woman.“This is a time to acknowledge our acts of complicity.
Here’s one of mine,” Bell said in a statement posted to Twitter. “Playing Molly in Central Park shows a lack of awareness of my pervasive privilege.
Casting a mixed race character w/a white actress undermines the specificity of the mixed race & Black American experience.”It was wrong and we, on the Central Park team, are pledging to make it right.
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