{"id":24881,"date":"2021-05-28T21:29:53","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T21:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=24881"},"modified":"2021-05-31T15:39:02","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T15:39:02","slug":"rugrats-character-betty-deville-is-openly-gay-woman-in-paramount-reboot","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/rugrats-character-betty-deville-is-openly-gay-woman-in-paramount-reboot\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Rugrats&#8217; Character Betty DeVille Is An Openly Gay Woman In Paramount+ Reboot"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_24896\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24896\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24896\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1132078341.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"698\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24896\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Natalie Morales, the voice of Betty DeVille in the Paramount+ Rugrats reboot. Photo by Slaven Vlasic\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Rugrats<\/em> is being reimagined entirely in its Paramount+ <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/gossip-girl-trailer\/\">reboot <\/a> that will turn the 1991 smash series into CG-<a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/chadwick-boseman-nft-oscars\/\">animation<\/a> and introduce more diverse families into the cast. Its mainstay Betty DeVille is also entering the show&#8217;s revival with a new (but totally believable) twist. Voiced by <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/big-freedia-judas-lady-gaga\/\">queer<\/a> actor Natalie Morales, Betty will now be the openly gay mother of the rowdy twins Phil and Lil, even though we fans have always secretly heralded her as a queer icon.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Betty is openly gay in the rugrats reboot !!!!  FINALLY CONFIRMATION ON WHAT WE ALWAY Knew! People can cry about it but rugrats has always been about equality and diversity<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kiley Lovato (@khuBaibStation) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/khuBaibStation\/status\/1398229741493272580?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">May 28, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/rugrats-reboot-phil-lil-mom-betty-deville-lesbian-paramount-plus-1595327\" target=\"_blank\">Newsweek<\/a><\/em>, last year Melanie Chartoff, who voices Didi Pickles, revealed that &#8220;one of the characters is a lesbian now&#8221; in an interview with\u00a0<em>Back To Best <\/em>podcast.\u00a0In a statement to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/betty-is-going-to-be-gay-in-the-rugrats-paramount-plus-1846973879\" target=\"_blank\">AV Club<\/a> , Morales confirmed the news saying, \u201canyone who watched the original show may have had an inkling Betty was a member of the alphabet mafia.&#8221; Fans of the cartoon took to Twitter to rejoice and also make it known that avid watchers are by no means alarmed by the recent revelation. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Danny8bit\/status\/1397752116710498304\" target=\"_blank\">One user tweeted<\/a>, &#8220;I was today years old when I learned that Betty from Rugrats wasn&#8217;t always gay.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/khuBaibStation\/status\/1398229741493272580\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Another tweeted<\/a>, &#8220;Betty is openly gay in the Rugrats reboot!!!! Finally confirmation on what we always knew. People can cry about it but Rugrats has always been about equality and diversity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Morales explained that Betty&#8217;s character is far more than a surface character for diversity purposes, but a compelling and intentional representation of queer women fulfilled with a balanced life of career, motherhood, and friendship. \u201cBetty is a single mom with her own business who has twins and still has time to hang out with her friends and her community, and I think it\u2019s just so great because examples of living your life happily and healthily as an out queer person are just such a beacon for young queer people who may not have examples of that,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd yeah, Betty is a fictional cartoon, but even cartoons were hugely influential for me as a kid and if I\u2019d been watching <em>Rugrats\u00a0<\/em>and seen Betty casually talking about her ex-girlfriend, I think at least a part of me would have felt like things might be okay in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29094,"featured_media":24896,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[38,16],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v18.5 (Yoast SEO v20.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&#039;Rugrats&#039; 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