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Black Lives Matter movement has in the aftermath of the George Quoted as the deaths got more industries to take a settlement with their practices. The last time has several film and serieskapere announced big changes to both the catalog and casting.
TV-series “The Simpsons,” now stop right on the white actors to stemmeroller for the black characters. It writes the program’s producers in a press release, writes The Guardian.
the Series has for several years been criticized for that the white actor Hank Azaria has given voice to the indian character “Apu”. Earlier in the year he said that he came to give himself as the voice of the indian shop-owner.
When I hear that children have been bullied because of the “Apu” I am very sorry. It was never my intention. I just wanted to spread the joy, ” said Azaria in 2018.
Several of the characters with a non-white complexion has been given his voice by white actors in the popular series. It is still uncertain whether characters should be removed or whether it will be hired new actors.
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Comedian Hari Kondabolu made in 2017 the documentary “The problem with the Apu”. In the documentary he interviewed celebrities from India and South Asia about the character “Apu” was racist or not.
He says that he does not hope that the Apu will be removed, and that it never was the purpose of the documentary.
< p> “The Simpsons,” the dropper disputed character: the – CowardlyI hope they keep him, and that the program’s talented writers do something interesting with him. The documentary was supposed to show is that you can love something high, such as “The Simpsons”, but that one should criticize the parts for it, as the Apu, wrote Kondabolu on Twitter.
An honor
“The Simpsons,” is not alone to make changes in rollelista. Actors from the comics “Family Guy” and “Central Park” has also said that they will stop giving voice to the characters with different skin color.
– It has been an honor to play Cleveland in over 20 years, but black characters should be played by black actors, writes Mike Henry on Twitter.
Christian Bell came with a similar statement when she announced that she did not come to continue in the role of Molly, a tegneserieentusiast which has a black father and white mother, in the series “Central Park”.
< p> I took a horrible decision– To play Molly shows a lack of awareness of my privileges as a white woman, ” says Bell in a statement, writes the Independent.
Remove episodes
Other series has had to go back in time to clean up a problematic past. The TV series “South Park”, which is streaming on HBO, has removed five episodes from the directory. In the episodes have serieskaperne made a character who should be the prophet Muhammad.
Why should, according to The Hollywood Reporter be that you were afraid of the reactions of the episodes could create with the muslims, then it is not allowed to depict the prophet Mohammed in islam. The episodes have also received criticism for an irreverent treatment of islam.
The american sitcom “Scrubs” was also forced to remove several episodes due to the use of “blackface”, reports CNN.
“Blackface” is an american term for painting your face black or brown to karikere a black person.
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