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Jenny slate big mouth8/18/2023 Like, hiring them because you value their voice and what they have to say. Not just hiring people because they check off a box. I think another big part is having people in the room and actually listening to them. But I think having those conversations is a big part of it. And sometimes they’ll be uncomfortable and not completely concrete, or you might not be getting the answer that you want or need. But I think that part of doing that means having conversations. I know there are people who are half-Black and half-white who are like, “Well, why didn’t they cast somebody who was exactly half-Black and half-Jewish then?” And I think expecting to have the right answers is part of the problem. What are your thoughts on how we approach issues around race in an authentic way in entertainment? That’s the reality of race - sometimes you talk about it, sometimes you don’t. And sometimes I talk about it, sometimes I don’t. That’s what I think is exciting about this. Maybe the stories wouldn’t have to be about race and could just be about character. There are characters who are characters of color, but they were voiced by white people, so they didn’t have those conversations, when maybe they could have if the actors were Black. It’s a show where things are discussed, so why not give this the same airtime and have it treated right? But also it was like, “How do you discuss this when Jenny is white? What do you do about it?” They discuss identity a lot on that show in a lot of different ways so I think it makes sense. What was your reaction to hearing that the show was going to start exploring Missy’s race and that aspect of her identity more? There was also a period of my education where I went to, and I think similarly to Missy I had to reckon with discovering myself in that context. ![]() I don’t think I was a bucktoothed kid who wrote joint fan fiction with my friends and took Latin for fun, so I think you can draw whatever parallels you want to from that. ![]() I’ve always appreciated and related to Missy. ![]() What are your thoughts on Missy as a character? What about her do you find the most relatable?
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