Broadway star Ezra Menas of Jagged Little Pill voices Odee Elliott, the Okapi.
Ezra Menas couldn’t identify with a character on screen until hir mid-20s.
It was “real, real late in my life,” Menas tells EW.
Ezra Menas' Odee debuts as a nonbinary character in ‘Madagascar: A Little Wild.'.Hulu/DreamWorks
“Usually it didn’t,” Menas adds.
But hir first voice-over role could help change that for new generations of kids.
The season premieres on Hulu and Peacock this Thursday.
Ezra Menas voices Odee.Rebecca J Michaelson
Let me see you all be proud."
A full-length version of the songwill be available Friday.
It’s just a beautiful thing.
Ezra Menas’ Odee meets the group in ‘Madagascar: A Little Wild’.Hulu/DreamWorks
Makes me cry."
“We’re so indoctrinated with the gender binary and gender stereotypes.
If you’re a man, this is your path.
If you’re a woman, this is your path,” Menas says.
At times, I felt so isolated in my experience.
I didn’t know I was nonbinary as a kid.
I didn’t even have that language as a kid."
Odee being Menas' first move into the voice-over space felt like “the stars aligned.”
Hir girlfriend, whose parents happen to be voice-over artists, did V.O.
work in the past, but it wasn’t on Menas' career bucket list.
Menas felt confident in taking on the part from the care they felt from the script.
“As a nonbinary person, I really resonate with this.
This feels spot on,” Menas says.
They care about the authenticity.
Yes, zie will sing in them, too.
