“Today this would not be acceptable,” Hunt told Yahoo! Life last November. “It really does speak to the need for more inclusive creators and storytellers behind the scenes who produce these images.” he continued. “That’s why it’s so important to have people in the writers’ room and in production who might be more sensitive to these issues.”
However, it wasn’t always like this. As Jeremy Helligar, a Black reporter, noted in a viral 2018 Medium post, just one year earlier, Franklin ate alongside his pals in Snoopy Come Home.
“A relevant aside: During the farewell dinner about one hour and five minutes into 1972’s Snoopy Come Home, Franklin was seated on the same side of the table as Charlie Brown, Lucy, and Frieda — in a regular chair,” Helligar explained in the essay discussing the controversy.
Peppermint Patty Was Voiced By A Boy … Who Would Go On To Create Mad Max: Fury Road
Long before Nancy Cartwright gained international fame for voicing Bart Simpson, there was yet another gender-bending trailblazer in the world of voice acting. In 1973, Chris DeFaria lent his vocal cords to the beloved Peanuts tomboy, Peppermint Patty, a role he recorded at age 11. Even though starring in one of the most revered Thanksgiving holiday specials of all time seems like a pretty impressive flex, then 13-year-old DeFaria didn’t want the world to know he voiced a girl, opting to keep his involvement relatively low-key. “I kept it a secret the entire time,” he explained in a 2014 interview with Noblemania. “I had a nickname at the time, Kip. Everyone knew me as Kip, so I wanted them to credit me as Chris so people wouldn’t know I was playing a girl,” he added.
Despite this Peanut-y success, DeFaria seemingly had a different vision for his career, one definitely not determined by the fact that it would be pretty darn weird for a fully-grown man to voice a young girl for the rest of his life. In what is the most rational career move since Frankie Muniz left behind his legacy as that kid from Malcolm in the Middle to become a successful open-wheel racecar driver, DeFaria retired from voice acting in 1973 to pursue another exciting endeavor – creating a series of (largely) ultra-violent flicks.
Although his producing career began in the early ’90s, working on horror movies including Amityville: It’s About Time, Amityville: A New Generation and the 1995 comedy Live Nude Girls, he later spanned to some more family-friendly films, including Cats & Dogs and Looney Tunes: Back in Action. In recent years, the former voice actor has executive produced several blockbusters including Mad Max: Fury Road, Sucker Punch, and the most violent movie of all – 2021’s Tom & Jerry.
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