Big Mouth Why Jenny Slate Still Voices Missy In Season 4

Big Mouth: Why Jenny Slate Still Voices Missy In Season 4

Jenny Slate still voices Missy in Big Mouth season 4 after Slate announced in June that she would leave the role and that Ayo Edibiri would take over.

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Big Mouth Why Jenny Slate Still Voices Missy In Season 4

Jenny Slate announced on Instagram this past June that she would no longer voice the character of Missy in Big Mouth, so why is Slate in season 4? Big Mouth season 4 released on December 4, more than six months after Slate announced that she would no longer voice Missy, yet Jenny Slate still voiced Missy for all but two episodes in the most recent season of Netflix’s hit adult animation series. It isn’t until the second to last episode of Big Mouth season 4 that Slate departs and Ayo Edebiri takes over the role of Missy.

On June 24, 2020, Slate explained why she was leaving Big Mouth. She said that her reasons for quitting had to do with race. Specifically, Slate is white and Missy is a biracial character with a white mom and Black dad. Slate remarked on her privilege and acknowledged that Black characters should be portrayed by Black people as part of a wave of representation challenges to animated shows around the same time that saw The Simpsons and Family Guy remove or replace white actors voicing characters of color.

However, Slate continued to appear in episodes of Big Mouth because season 4 had already been animated before Slate left the show. Showrunner Nick Kroll said that season 4 was already done before June – the lines had been recorded by Slate and re-recording them would have been impossible because of the global pandemic. It also would have put Ayo Edibiri in the position of having to mimic Slate’s performance. But the decision to change voices midway through the season was actually a strong decision, as it allowed for a more active transition than doing it between seasons would have.

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Missy’s voice changing during season 4 becomes more about accepting a changing identity – and the journey that the show as a whole has gone through with the decision – and allows Missy (and Edibiri) to use the idea of their own blackness as part of the character. Missy has to come to terms with who she is and her racial identity, as Nick Kroll himself has alluded to and pushing up the voice change makes it less of a quiet apology in the background.

Edebiri has said that she identifies with Missy – a sweet and awkward bookworm with a strong moral compass. The actress, comedian, writer, and producer noted in an interview that her childhood bookshelf contained the autobiographies of Nelson Mandela and Bill Clinton as well as a Latin translation The Iliad [via Variety]. Big Mouth season 4, episode 9, “Horrority House,” marks Edebiri’s debut as Missy. Edebiri, Nick Kroll, and Jenny Slate have all commented on their satisfaction with how the change will affect Missy’s character development after season 4 and believe it was handled in a way that felt natural.

Big Mouth season 4 includes Slate’s final episodes as Missy and introduces Edebiri stepping into the role of Missy in the second to the last episode of the season. Slate’s departure from Big Mouth marks the beginning of a long-overdue shift in Hollywood that came about in no small part due to the global protests against racial injustice that took place in the summer of 2020. In Jenny Slate’s announcement on Instagram, she said that she had realized her portrayal of Missy was “an act of erasure of Black people” and concluded by saying, “Black voices must be heard. Black Lives Matter.”

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