Bob's Burgers creator explains casting males as females and Kristen Bell as a biracial character in Apple TV+'s Central Park

The Hollywood Reporter

Like he does on Bob's Burgers, Loren Bouchard has males voicing female roles on his forthcoming Apple TV+ animated series about a family of caretakers in New York City. “Animation just makes you want to take this voice and have it come out of this face. It’s so delicious that I just can’t stop myself,” Bouchard explained at the TV press tour. As for casting Bell to voice the family's biracial daughter, Bouchard explains: "We’re always trying to both honor the urge to fool around and have fun with animation and also just balance that sh*t out. Get women of color in the cast, in the writers room, so that you feel at least that you’re always giving into the urge because you think there’s something there, some spark. She’s gonna honor that character. Kristen needed to be Molly. We couldn’t not make her Molly. But then we couldn’t make Molly white and we couldn’t make Kristen mixed race, so we just had to go forward. So then you arrive there and say, ‘Well, we gotta just keep doing as best we can to balance, to turn around and give somebody an opportunity who wasn’t getting it.'” ALSO: See the first image of Central Park, premiering this summer.