The Simpsons’ Harry Shearer: “The Job of the Actor Is to Play Someone Who They Are Not”

Until recently, Shearer played the Black character Dr. Roy Hibbert.

The Simpsons’ Harry Shearer: “The Job of the Actor Is to Play Someone Who They Are Not”
Wren Graves

Consequence of Sound

In June, producers of The Simpsons announced that the long-running animated sitcom would no longer use white actors in non-white roles. Now Harry Shearer, voice of Ned Flanders and Mr. Burns, and former voice of the Black character Dr. Roy Hibbert, has expressed reservations with that decision. As The Independent reports, Shearer gave…

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The Simpsons’ Harry Shearer: “The Job of the Actor Is to Play Someone Who They Are Not”
Wren Graves

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