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Jenny Slate Says She Will No Longer Be Voicing a Biracial Character on Netflix's 'Big Mouth'

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Jenny Slate is stepping away from .The 38-year-old actress revealed via Instagram on Wednesday that she will no longer be voicing Missy, as the character from the animated Netflix series is biracial, and she is white.«At the start of the show, I reasoned with myself that it was permissible for me to play 'Missy' because her mom is Jewish and white — as am I.

But 'Missy' is also Black, and Black characters on an animated show should be played by Black people,» she said. «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.

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