He announced last month that he will be retiring Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, an Indian immigrant and owner of the Kwik-E-Mart.
Hank Azaria has been voicing the idiosyncratic citizens of Springfield on The Simpsons for nearly three decades, but there’s one character he won’t be voicing anymore.
Since then, Azaria has been paying more attention to the greater cultural conversation surrounding Apu.
He explained that he thought about the character in context of his own identity as a white Jewish man.