Writer and comedian Ayo Edebiri makes her debut as the voice of Missy in the fourth season of Netflix’s animated series “Big Mouth”, which hit the streaming platform on Friday.

“I have always found Missy funny and weird, and it was cool to get to be a writer for a season where we were uncovering her as a character even more and giving her a lot of fun things to do. Season four is a really great start, I think, to the beginning of what Missy’s journey is going to be like discovering not just her Blackness but herself,” said Edebiri.

She takes over the role from Jenny Slate, who had voiced the character since the series premiered. Slate announced her decision to step down from the role in June.

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Although Slate’s announcement came after season four was complete, the “Big Mouth” team decided that at a moment in the narrative where it made sense for the switch to happen, Edebiri would make her debut as Missy during the season four’s penultimate episode, “Horrority House”.

 “I have always appreciated and related to Missy. I don’t think I was a buck toothed kid who wrote joint fanfiction with my friends and took Latin for fun, so I think you can draw whatever parallels you want to from that. There was also a period of my education where I went to predominantly white institutions), and I think similarly to Missy I had to reckon with discovering myself in that context”, she told the Chicago Tribune in an interview.