‘You Don’t Talk Down To Kids’: Kimiko Glenn On Nickelodeon’s ‘Baby Shark’s Big Show’ & ‘Orange Is The New Black’

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September 27, 2021 astatine 2:15 pm

(CBS Local)– Kimiko Glenn is 1 of the astir prolific dependable actors successful Hollywood close now. She plays Baby Shark successful the deed Nickelodeon bid “Baby Shark’s Big Show,” has done dependable enactment successful large shows similar “BoJack Horseman” and “DuckTales” and present has a starring relation successful “My Little Pony: A New Generation” arsenic Izzy Moonbow.

It’s been 7 years since Glenn archetypal became a household sanction successful Hollywood for her relation successful “Orange is the New Black” arsenic Brook Soso. CBS Local’s DJ Sixsmith precocious caught up with the histrion to sermon her latest dependable acting work, wherefore the Baby Shark bid was specified a deed successful play 1 and what the lasting interaction of “Orange is the New Black” is. The actor’s latest movie “My Little Pony: A New Generation” is disposable to watercourse present connected Netflix.

“I play Baby Shark and I americium ever reasoning what is the kid science of this all,” said Glenn. “How bash you speech to kids? What I deliberation is truly chill is you don’t speech down to them. They’re not adults yet, truthful you can’t needfully dainty them similar adults, but you tin contiguous truly important, deeper concepts to them and person them recognize and person them beryllium communicated. If it’s a story, anyone tin get into it. Anyone tin person empathy for a quality and recognize why. I’m astir mostly noticing the braveness and boldness of adults taking connected definite concepts and presenting them to kids.”

Glenn says her friends with kids are ever texting her videos of their children watching “Baby Shark’s Big Show” connected Nickelodeon. The bid has already been renewed for a 2nd play and Glenn enjoys however the amusement is targeted for young kids, but explores large concepts. The histrion has ever enjoyed enactment with a deeper meaning and that was surely the lawsuit erstwhile she joined “Orange Is The New Black” successful play two.

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“That amusement did unthinkable things for diverseness successful tv and it proved that it was absorbing to radical and that determination was a marketplace for it,” said Glenn. “Same for women successful tv and the trans assemblage got a spotlight and yet got a dependable successful a mode that they ne'er had before. People were yet funny successful situation betterment and truly recognize that these are people. We unreal that they are retired of show and retired of mind, but these are existent radical that are getting affected by the mode they are being treated. It truly did a lot. It besides started disconnected the full Netflix and streaming question due to the fact that it besides proved that radical volition ticker these things connected this level and not connected television.”