STEP APU FAR FOR SIMPSONS
AND while on race, cartoon comedy The Simpsons are ending the use of white actors to voice characters of colour, producers have revealed.
“Moving forward, The Simpsons will no longer have white actors voice non-white characters,” they said in a brief statement.
Bosses did not elaborate, but the move follows years of public pressure about the show’s Indian convenience store character Apu, who is voiced by Hank Azaria.
He said earlier this year he would no longer play the character, which has been criticised as a negative portrayal of Indian-americans.
Isn’t this what acting is about, though? People portraying a character they are not?
Whatever will be next? Will Nancy Cartwright now stop voicing Bart too?