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Apu also makes an appearance in The Simpsons: Road Rage as a passenger and unlockable playable character. He also is a character players acquire fairly early on in the open-ended online game The Simpsons: Tapped Out. In 2015, Apu appeared as a non-playable character in the toys-to-life video game Lego Dimensions. In game, he only appears in the ...
“The Simpsons” voice actor Hank Azaria continues to express his apologies for voicing the character Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, noting that the character itself has become “practically a slur at ...
Hank Azaria has issued an apology for voicing Kwik-E-Mart owner Apu on “The Simpsons,” a controversial role he played for 30 years despite Apu being Indian. “I apologize for my part in ...
The makers of The Simpsons have finally broached the simmering debate over accusations that Kwik-E-Mart franchisee Apu in the show is a stereotype. Simpsons fans' anger over show's brush off of ...
The Problem with Apu is a 2017 American documentary film written by and starring comedian Hari Kondabolu and produced and directed by Michael Melamedoff. It focuses on the character Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, an Indian immigrant in the animated sitcom The Simpsons who, for a period, was the only figure of Indian heritage to appear regularly on mainstream U.S. television.
This episode marked that last time Hank Azaria voiced the character Apu following the controversy surrounding the character. [ 3 ] Dissatisfied with composer Alf Clausen 's work, executive producer James L. Brooks attempted to hire composer Hans Zimmer , who worked on The Simpsons Movie , before hiring composer collective Bleeding Fingers Music ...
The actor has voiced the character for more than thirty years
It also followed series regular Hank Azaria's January 2020 announcement that he would no longer voice the Indian character Apu Nahasapeemapetilon on The Simpsons. [52] Series regular Harry Shearer was not fully in agreement with the decision, stating that "the job of the actor is to play someone who they're not". [53]