Mike Henry has stepped down from playing the character Cleveland on 'Family Guy,' the latest in a slew of White actors abdicating roles voicing animated characters of color.
Mike Henry has stepped down from playing the character Cleveland on "Family Guy," the latest in a slew of White actors abdicating roles voicing animated characters of color.
"I love this character, but persons of color should play characters of color," he said. "Therefore, I will be stepping down from the role." But "Family Guy" also has other nonwhite characters voiced by White actors, including Tricia Takanawa, voiced by Alex Borstein, who also voices matriarch Lois Griffin.All of this is a part of pop culture's recent racial reckoning, as increasingly creators and actors of color demand accountability from Hollywood and the entertainment industry.from her role on "Big Mouth" as Missy Foreman-Greenwald, a young mixed-race girl.
Bell and the creative team behind the show recognize "that the casting of the character of Molly is an opportunity to get representation right - to cast a Black or mixed race actress and give Molly a voice that resonates with all the nuance and experiences of the character as we've drawn her," they wrote in a statement.
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