Casting change: Apu has new voice on ‘The Simpsons’

For the first time in almost a decade, fans of “The Simpsons” will once again hear from the former owner of the Kwik-E-Mart.Read more trending news But they won’t hear Hank Azaria. Apu Nahasapeemapetilon has a new actor voicing him, Sunil Malhotra, who has done characters on “Star Wars: Tales of The Jedi” and “The Legend of Vox Machina,” The New York Times reported. Apu has been silent for nearly a decade after a documentary took a look at the effects of a white actor voicing the character and the bigger debate of how the entertainment industry looks at people of South Asian descent, the Times said. Azaria spoke about the controversy and pledged not to do the voice again. “I think the documentary made some really interesting points and gave us a lot of things to think about,” Azaria told TMZ in 2017. In 2021, he said he would not voice Apu again, saying, “Part of me feels like I need to go to every single Indian person in this country and personally apologize.”The character returns in