The star - who also voiced Unikitty in "The Lego Movie" and played Trudy Campbell on "Mad Men" - posted a statement on Instagram in June saying "I now understand that people of color should always voice people of color."
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When Netflix's adult animated series "Bojack Horseman" ended early last year, actress Alison Brie apologised for voicing the main female character, Vietnamese-American Diane Nguyen. The studio's 1995 animated feature "Pocahontas" seemed to signal a bigger shift in thinking, however, with indigenous actors in all major roles, though Pocahontas's singing voice was lent by Judy Kuhn.ĭisney has since put disclaimers on some of its classic films like "The Jungle Book", "Dumbo", and "The Lady and the Tramp" warning that they include "negative depictions and/or mistreatment of people or cultures".Īnd this week "The Muppet Show" added a similar warning to 18 of its episodes.
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But Disney caused much more controversy when its live action film version in 2018 saw extras "browned up" with makeup to appear more Arab. Hank Azaria's heavily-accented caricature of the grocer came under sharp scrutiny after comedian Hari Kondabolu's documentary "The Problem with Apu" fingered the performance as offensive.Īzaria finally quit the role last year, saying that continuing to play him "just didn't feel right".ĭr Hibbert is now being played by Kevin Michael Richardson, while Carlson has been recast with another black actor Alex Desert.ĭisney's "Aladdin" is one of the industry's most notorious examples of whitewashing, with white actors voicing the title role, Princesse Jasmine, and the Genie in the 1992 film.Īt the time, the casting passed more or less unnoticed. We look at how Hollywood is realising that black voices matter:ĭr Hibbert is only one of several characters of colour on "The Simpsons" to have been voiced for decades by white actors including his wife Bernice, Homer's nuclear plant colleague Carlton Carlson and of course, Apu, the Indian-American convenience store owner.
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While some fans are mourning his departure - the latest white actor to think better of playing non-white parts - others are shocked and surprised that Springfield's favourite medical professional was as white as his lab coat. Hibbert on "The Simpsons" after more than 30 years. PARIS: White actor Harry Shearer is stepping back from voicing the black Dr.
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The plot follows Aladdin, a street urchin, as he falls in love with Princess Jasmine, befriends a wish-granting Genie, and battles the wicked Jafar. Produced by Walt Disney Pictures, it is a live action adaptation of Disney's 1992 animated film of the same name, which is based on the eponymous Middle Eastern folktale from One Thousand and One Nights.
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Aladdin is a 2019 American movie musical fantasy comedy film directed by Guy Ritchie, who co-wrote the screenplay with John August.