In the wake of the ongoing Black Lives Matter protests, many animated shows have pledged to diversify their voice casts and not have white actors voicing non-white roles.
The Simpsons’ producers pledged in June that they would “no longer have white actors voice non-white characters”.
Actor Alex Désert has been announced as the new voice of Carl Carlson on The Simpsons.
Désert, 52, is best known for appearing on The Flash and The Heights, as well as voicing Nick Fury in the animated Marvel series The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes.