![]() ![]() Jenny Slate will no longer voice Missy, with comedy writer and actor Ayo Edebiri. "I acknowledge how my original reasoning was flawed, that it existed as an example of white privilege and unjust allowances made within a system of societal white supremacy, and that in me playing 'Missy,' I was engaging in an act of erasure of Black people. Ayo Edebiri takes over from Jenny Slate as the voice of Missy towards the end of Big Mouth Season 4. "But 'Missy' is also Black, and Black characters on an animated show should be played by Black people," she said in her Instagram post. She said at the time that she had reasoned she could play Missy because the character's mother is Jewish and white, just like her. Slate announced the decision last month to step back from the role. But those are, at least for me, the impetus to make the change." "And there can be shame and other feelings that come into that. "I think I, as a white person, was looking around the world in the last couple of months and thinking, Well, there is something that I genuinely don't understand and I should understand it," Slate said. Jenny Slate, who previously voiced African American character Missy, publicly stepped away from the role, but she does return in Season 5 to voice other characters. Slate said the decision to no longer voice the role of Missy, a young Black girl on the animated series, felt like a tangible action she could take toward change - beyond protesting and posting to social media - at such a critical moment in history. Big Mouth co-creator, executive producer and star Nick Kroll said Wednesday that the show will recast the voice role of Missy, a. "I looked around my life and I could see very clearly where my reasoning was flawed and racist," Slate told BuzzFeed's News O'Clock podcast on Tuesday, "which is, I think, a scary word for white people to say because they couldn't feel like it means 'Oh, I'm a bad person,' you know, or 'I'm the same as the person that drove the car through protesters.'" Jenny Slate as Missy Foreman-Greenwald: Andrew’s ex-girlfrfiend is a mixed-race character who isn’t that popular due to her bookish persona and maturity level. Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty. ![]() Actor and comedian Jenny Slate opened up about her decision to no longer voice a Black characte r on Netflix's animated series Big Mouth, saying she realized her original decision to take the role was "flawed and racist." Jenny Slate Left Big Mouth & Called For Missy To Be Voiced By Black Actor.
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