The Simpsons will no longer use white on-screen characters to voice ethnic minority characters, the creators...
The Simpsons will no longer use white on-screen characters to voice ethnic minority characters, the creators of the long-running empowered course of action announced Friday, June 26.
"Pushing ahead, THE SIMPSONS will no longer have white performers voice non-white characters," Fox Studios said in a declaration to AFP.
The game plan, impelled in 1989, has different toned characters that are voiced by white performers.
The redundant character Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, a food vendor of Indian start, is voiced in the American adjustment of the show by white performer Hank Azaria. The character has for a long while been seen as risky and passing on narrow minded person speculations. Last January Azaria pronounced that, in simultaneousness with producers, he was giving up the activity.
The change will moreover impact the character of Dr Hibbert, a dim character voiced by the white on-screen character Harry Shearer who also credits his voice to various characters on the course of action — from Homer Simpson's director Mr Burns to the cheerful neighbor Ned Flanders.
This presentation came as Mike Henry, the white on-screen character who voices the dim character of Cleveland Brown in Family Guy, another vivified game plan made by Fox, provided details regarding Twitter and Instagram that he was giving up the activity.
