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faced a reckoning over the diversity of its characters. The re-casting started with Azaria’s Apu, which the white actor agreed perpetuated harmful stereotypes about Indian Americans.“Tonight I make my debut on The Simpsons as gay, Cuban Julio,” Rodriguez, a longtime performer with the Upright Citizens Brigade, wrote on Instagram last month.

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The Simpsons recasts a second character voiced by Hank Azaria: Marge's gay Cuban hairdresser Julio

A second Simpsons character voiced by actor Hank Azaria, 56, has been recast following criticism of how the iconic cartoon portrays minorities.Marge's gay Cuban hairdresser, Julio, is now being voiced by an actor far closer to the role in real life, Tony Rodriguez, who is both gay and of Cuban descent.Last year Azaria stopped voicing Indian Kwik-E-Mart owner Apu after nearly 30 years after he'd come under fire for being offensively stereotypical. He was also later replaced by actor Alex Désert in the role of Homer's pal Carl Carlson.