Missy From ‘Big Mouth’ Needed a New Voice

The biracial character will have a storyline that brings her identity to the forefront this season

The Netflix animated series Big Mouth is seeing some recasting spurred by the year’s national conversation about race. As Jourdain Searles writes in Vulture, Missy’s character is “Black and Jewish, but the question of her race rarely comes up. Last year, ahead of season four, the show’s writers began to develop a storyline that would bring Missy’s identity to the fore for the first time. This, of…