Kristen Bell has resigned from her voiceover role of a mixed-race girl on Apple TV+'s animated series Central Park. Molly, voiced by Bell, was the character of an aspiring comic book artist who is the daughter of a black man (voiced by Leslie Odom Jr) and a white woman (voiced by Kathryn Hahn).
Bell statement via Just Jared highlighted that, “this is a time to acknowledge our acts of complicity. Here’s one of mine.” “Playing Molly shows a lack of awareness of my pervasive privilege.
Casting a white actress for a mixed race character undermines the specificity of the mixed race & Black American experience,” Kristen added.
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