BoJack Horseman’s creator has address the show’s whitewashing casting – admitting he wouldn’t cast Alison Bire as Denise now (Picture: AFF-USA/REX/Shutterstock)

BoJack Horseman has arrived back on Netflix for a triumphant fifth series.

However, while the show continues to sail from strength-to-strength on Netflix, its creator has revealed he has some regrets about the show and its inception – namely whitewashing.

The main cast for the show is entirely made up of Caucasian actors, something which has been flagged up previously.

Speaking about his casting of Alison Brie as the Vietnamese-American character Diane, Raphael Bob-Waksberg said he wouldn’t repeat the casting choices that he made in the show.


‘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’ (Picture: AFF-USA/REX/Shutterstock)

‘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 told The Slate.



‘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.’

He added that he now tries to be ‘very race-conscious’ while casting, and for every new character on the Netflix show, he’s ‘actively looking for people of colour’ for the roles.

He also revealed that Alison Brie was aware of the controversy surrounding her casting and that she ‘would not take a role like this again’.

Bojack Horseman seasons one through five are available to stream on Netflix now.

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