I’m not talking about politics! This is not my first rodeo. What are you saying, you’re a Romney voter? I have weird contrarian streaks in me, so I don’t always necessarily disagree with my father. My dad calls me and he tells me that every other ad on all his favorite Fox News shows is The Mindy Project, so he’s elated.ĭo you get into political spats with him? But I cannot imagine a better boss or source of inspiration than Kevin Reilly, who, by the way, hired me at The Office.Īnd I understand your parents love Fox News. That’s the only place I had ever worked for eight years. I was disappointed when NBC passed on my pilot. Do you feel a sense of “I’ll show you, NBC”? As you’ve written, “The best revenge is acid in the face.” I can’t say that I agree, but I will say that Greg Daniels is a very smart man. The Office ’s executive producer, Greg Daniels, said you were the best writer on that show. I didn’t have any idea that was going to happen, but I do feel a little wistful about that. I’m in the premiere, and I’m maybe gonna shoot another episode this season, but I’ve been there since the very beginning, so when I found out this is the last year-I am a good Asian kid who was an A student I wish I could be there to the end to see things through. If you can make that the way people perceive The Office this season, that would be wonderful. So, apparently The Office could survive Steve Carell’s departure but not yours. It’s something you don’t see dramatized, but almost every minority I know who’s my age, they have these funny stories about their parents stereotyping other minorities. The funniest racism is the racism between minorities. There’s also a casualness here around joking about race, like when your character quips she wants only white patients who’ll pay. If that can just be reflected in, then that’d be great. My life is very diverse, and my friends are a diverse group of people. At the same time, I do think it’s wonderful when I hear people say that it’s inspirational that I’m an Indian woman on camera. I try not to put anything political on the forefront of what I’m trying to do creatively. Being in the rare position of a woman of Indian descent leading a sitcom, do you want to show more cultural diversity? In the pilot, an Iranian kid explains to his mom in Farsi how much your character likes to drink. and frivolous and a little bit selfish and drink too much if she’s also a doctor. It’s a fun thing for the character to be un-P.C. So it’s great to be vicariously a doctor. My parents could not be more proud of what I’m doing, but they would’ve loved for me to be a doctor, too. I know the Indian-doctor thing is a stereotype, but it’s a stereotype based on some truth. Is this show a way of fulfilling that expectation: “I’m not a doctor, but I play one on TV”? Kids of immigrant doctors face the expectation they’ll become doctors as well. You’ve just determined my Halloween costume this year. All I want is for many gay men to dress up as me for Halloween. I would love if gay men responded to me. Speaking of gender, you’ve noted girls and gay men really respond to you. I just loved the world of my mom’s office, her and her nurses and her patients. So I thought this world would allow me to spend more time with female guest stars. But because I’m a comedy writer, I spend 80 percent of my time with men. I wish I could spend 80 percent of my hours with women. It’s a job that leads to incredibly happy and also dramatic situations. You’ve said “there’s something inherently funny about being an OB/GYN.” Why is that? I was just the apple of her eye all the time. My mother was always proud of all of me, all the time. She knew about the show and had always known that was a dream of mine. Not really, because my mother’s life was very different than the life of this character, but the trappings of my mom’s professional life I definitely am pulling from for the show. Are you using any of her stories for the show? Your character’s an OB/GYN, as your mom was before she passed earlier this year. On the Fox sitcom premiering September 25, the former Kelly Kapoor on The Office plays an OB/GYN who’s great at her work life, not so much her love life. “Don’t: harem pants.” (Though, with the poor phone reception, it sounds like she might well be saying “harem dance.” Also a don’t?) The 33-year-old will be engaging in plenty of the former and presumably not much of the latter in the new series she’s created, The Mindy Project. In honor of our Fall Fashion Issue, comedy actor-writer (and sometime fashion blogger) Mindy Kaling offers her style do and don’t this season.
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