All the famous people you didn't know were behind the Big Mouth characters (2024)

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Who are Big Mouth characters based off of? ›

Nick: So yes, Nick and Andrew are based on me and Andrew, Jesse was in part inspired by our friend Liz, and Jay is an amalgam of a few of our friends. Andrew: One friend who was a magician and one who was a pillow f*****. Nick: Yes! We melded those two very important character traits into one person.

Personality...

awkward yet well-meaning. Nick desperately wants to be “good,” and deep down he is. He doesn't indulge in the same misogynistic nonsense as his friends. He knows way more about sex than you'd expect about a kid his age.

The duo co-created the series with Mark Levin and Jennifer Flackett, and based the comedy on embarrassing real life-tales. According to Kroll (via NowThis Entertainment), he was a "late bloomer" and actually did get "pantsed" in his front of his childhood crush, a life moment that is recreated in Big Mouth.

The show also includes an experience of their childhood friend, Lizzie, who the character of Jessi is based on, getting her first period on a school trip to the Statue of Liberty.

Caleb Linden is a recurring character in Big Mouth. He is a student at Bridgeton Middle School, who participates in the school jazz club and works as the cameraman for the school news, which makes him part of the AV club. He is an asocial, yet very intelligent kid with autism who can't read social cues.

At the end of the episode, Nick saw Maurice enter his room during Andrew's sleepover and had the ability to communicate with him, signifying that puberty for him had officially started.

Connie is the first Hormone Monstress introduced in Big Mouth. As a female, Connie is usually assigned to girls approaching puberty. However, she unexpectedly becomes Nick's main Hormone Monster in the Season 2 episode, "The Department of Puberty," after Tyler is fired from the position.

David Nelson, portrayed by Jack Barton, is a supporting antagonist in Heartstopper. He is the eldest son of Stéphane and Sarah Nelson, and the older brother of Nick Nelson by four years.

Elaborating upon her decision in a new interview with The Independent, Slate said: “I assessed the choices I made and I knew that they were wrong. I wanted to depart and make space for performers who should be playing the part I was playing.”

Who is the annoying girl in Big Mouth? ›

Lola Unfuglio Skumpy is a recurring antagonist in the Netflix animated TV Show Big Mouth. She is a fat, ugly, and annoying girl who likes to bully other girls, along with her "best friend" Devin.

When we meet 13-year-old Missy Foreman-Greenwald in season one of the Netflix animated series Big Mouth, she's a shrinking violet who still talks to her stuffed animals.

When he and his childhood best friend Andrew Goldberg were first dreaming up their hit animated show about the growing pains of puberty, they based the character of Jay Bilzerian, who has deeply involved relationships with a wide variety of soft furnishings, on a specific friend they knew as kids.

Andrew Glouberman is the main character of the Netflix adult animated show, Big Mouth. Series creator's Nick Kroll and Andrew Goldberg based the main protagonists Nick Birch and Andrew Glouberman on themselves. Even though Nick Kroll actually voices his animated counterpart, Andrew Goldberg does not.

Keke Palmer's character Rochelle appeared in season five of "Big Mouth" as Missy's "Hate Worm," the snake-like creatures that Lovebugs transform into when their humans feel hate. In "Human Resources" Rochelle is a good friend of Emmy, ambitious and competitive when it comes to her job.

Appearance. Jay is a 13-year-old Armenian-Greek (former part indicated, as his surname is Armenian; latter part confirmed in Season 4 Episode 10) tan-skinned boy with black spiky hair, brown eyes, big black eyebrows that almost form a unibrow, big ears, and a hooked nose.