“It just didn’t feel right.”
Hank Azaria has spoken out about his decision to retire from voicing Apu in The Simpsons.
"Once I realised that that was the way this character was thought of, I just didn’t want to participate in it anymore,” Azaria toldAzaria told the publication that he based Apu off the 1968 film The Party, a movie where brownface is used to portray an Indian actor, in addition to clerks he heard growing up in New York.
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