Animation Is One Place Where Race Shouldn't Matter (Guest Column)

in #actress6 years ago

First cast in a major role by George Lucas, Black voice actress Angelique Perrin comments on Kristen Bell and Jenny Slate stepping aside ("I was surprised so many white actresses were playing Black characters") and how opportunities define success in Hollywood: "What Indian actor's career would have been launched if cast as Apu instead of Hank Azaria?"

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I'm a Black voice actress who left North Carolina with one big dream: I wanted to bring all my crazy characters to Hollywood. My plan was to voice an array of cartoons and maybe one day have a cartoon of my own. And though I don't have a cartoon of my own, do I have the right to complain? George Lucas changed my life when he cast me as a Jedi in Star Wars: The Clone Wars. More recently, I joined CannonBusters. It's a Netflix series created by LeSean Thomas, a Black animator who developed a world filled with a multicultural cast of characters and voices.

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