It is now eight years since Hank Azaria stepped away from voicing his controversial The Simpsons character of Apu, but the conversation around why he stopped playing the character – and why he ...

The decision to sideline the character came in the wake of Hari Kondabolu’s 2017 documentary The Problem with Apu, which laid out a compelling case against white actor Hank Azaria’s portrayal ...

The Simpsons voice actor Hank Azaria has explained why he stepped away from voicing Apu Nahasapeemapetilon on the show. The long-running animated series came under fire after the release of 2017 ...

It was probably two or three years because we all froze at 'The Simpsons,'" Azaria told host Pablo Torre. "We had no idea what to do. The character stopped saying anything, and it became a deep ...

Azaria voiced the Indian shopkeeper on the animated comedy for 30 years, but his depiction faced high-profile criticism in 2017 with the release of a documentary titled The Problem with Apu.