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27-06-2020, 10:08 AM
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Have announced it will no longer use white actors to voice non-white characters. Makes sense.
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27-06-2020, 07:49 PM
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Well Hank Azaria has already said he won’t voice Apu anymore. A shame, as I found him funny and a talented actor.
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Other white US actors to announce that they will no longer be providing voiceovers for people of colour include Mike Henry and Kristen Bell.

Mr Henry provided the voice of black character Cleveland Brown in the animated series Family Guy for 20 years.

"I love this character, but persons of colour should play characters of colour," he tweeted on Friday.

Ms Bell, who provided the voice of Molly, a mixed-race child, in the cartoon series Central Park, said doing so displayed "a lack of awareness".

"Casting a mixed race character [with a] white actress undermines the specificity of the mixed race and Black American experience," she added.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-53201667
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27-06-2020, 11:11 PM
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Are they going to use yellow actors for the rest of the cast? What about a woman doing a boy's voice or a black actor doing a white woman's voice in Central Park? It's all getting very silly.
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27-06-2020, 11:18 PM
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they could employ Lenny Henry. He does a good fake black accent.
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Originally Posted by Judd ->
Are they going to use yellow actors for the rest of the cast? What about a woman doing a boy's voice or a black actor doing a white woman's voice in Central Park? It's all getting very silly.
That was my first thought ... they're yellow!
What next? .... Auditions to be held in China for the voiceovers.

Or, let's go the whole hog and have Bart and Homer change to black overnight.
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Originally Posted by Judd ->
Are they going to use yellow actors for the rest of the cast? What about a woman doing a boy's voice or a black actor doing a white woman's voice in Central Park? It's all getting very silly.
And even sillier, today in London there were more marches but now for ... 'Black Trans Lives Matter' .. in support of them and to raise awareness of the violence that black transgenders have to endure.

There'll be a backlash if there's much more of this stupidity.
 

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