Bojack Horseman creator regrets not ensuring more versatility in the cast.
Raphael Bob-Waksberg, the creator of the indulgently depressing cartoon Bojack Horseman has opened up about how he regrets casting Alison Brie as Diane, who is a Vietnamese-American character.
In an interview with Slate, he revealed that if he were to do the show all over again, he would consciously not use an all-white cast.
“I was casting all these people one at a time, sometimes several months apart, [and then] it dawned on me: Oh, these are all white people,” he said. “I wish I had been paying closer attention at the time. You can be a ‘good, woke person’ who cares about this kind of thing, but if you are not actively making it a top priority, it doesn’t happen.”
“The way the industry’s set up, the people you’re gonna get on the acting side and the writing side are going to be white people.”
He added: “If I was making a short or even a movie, then that project would be done and I could learn from it. But the fact that I’m still making this show with mostly white people in every episode fills me with tremendous guilt.”
The fifth season of Bojack Horseman is out now on Netflix.
