Saturday, June 27, 2020

Mike Henry: I'm Done Playing Cleveland Brown!

Mike Henry who voiced Cleveland Brown on Family Guy is stepping down.
Since the George Floyd tragedy, Hollywood is now changing.

Family Guy writer and actor Mike Henry says he is officially done voicing the roles of Cleveland Brown and Consuela. Henry, a key voice character on the Fox animated sitcom has voice characters of color for years.

Seth MacFarlane's Family Guy is a part of Fox's Sunday Primetime Animation.

Mike Henry will no longer voice people of color on Family Guy.
Henry announced that he will no longer serve as the voice of Quahog's Cleveland Brown, the African American neighbor of the Griffins. Brown would have a spin-off called The Cleveland Show that premiered on Fox for five seasons.

He also voiced the role of Hispanic maid Consuela and Cleveland's step-son Rolio. He also plays the roles of Herbert, the neighborhood pedophile, Bruce and Ernie The Chicken.

"It's been an honor to play Cleveland on Family Guy for 20 years," Henry wrote on social media.

"I loved this character, but persons of color should play characters of color. Therefore, I will be stepping down from the role."

Henry who has been a key player on Family Guy has voiced roles on animated spin-offs American Dad! and The Cleveland Show.

This year, Hank Azaria, the key voice actor of many notable characters in The Simpsons has retired Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, the Indian-American Kwik-E-Mart store owner. Azaria has also decided to step down from the roles of Bumblebee Man, Carl Carlson and Black cop Lou.

Fellow actor, Harry Shearer has stepped down from playing the role of Dr. Hibbert on The Simpsons.
Big shoes to fill.
This also comes as no surprise, that many characters from Loren Bouchard's Central Party have decided to step down from their roles. Kristen Bell has decided to step aside from Central Park as the character Molly on the Apple TV Plus series.

Jenny Slate has also step aside from her role as Missy on the Nick Kroll series Big Mouth.



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