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    Netflix's 'Tuca & Bertie' Puts The Lady Birds In Charge

    In bringing a cartoon toucan and an anxious songbird to screen, show creator Lisa Hanawalt has done something still rare: made an animated show about women friends, by women friends.
    by Elise Hu May 01, 2019 3 minutes
    <em>Tuca & Bertie</em> is an adult animation that centers on a brassy, colorful toucan (voiced by Tiffany Haddish) and her neurotic best friend, a songbird (Ali Wong).

    Tuca & Bertie is the latest adult animation to hit Netflix, and it centers on a brassy, colorful toucan (voiced by Tiffany Haddish) and her neurotic best friend, a songbird (voiced by Ali Wong). But the strongest voice on the show is behind the scenes — that of creator and executive producer Lisa Hanawalt.

    Hanawalt, who as its creative director, describes herself as someone vacillating between confident and anxious. So when her

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