![]() I didn't actually even want to do a teen show. VOSMIKOVA/NETFLIX What made you want to do a teen show, specifically? It's been amazing to be able to be the person who's like, “Oh wow, we found her.” This young unknown, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, who we found through an open casting call-she was a high schooler in Toronto, and then less than two years later she's on the cover of Time. They want to hear about other people outside of their own life, as long as the stories feel honest. When a story like that resonates all over the world, in Bulgaria and Ukraine and Brazil, it's life-affirming. I don't know how universal this is going to be.” Obviously it takes place now, but when you write a story about three Indian women in different generations and different points in their immigration story, you think, “Well, this is really specific. ![]() It's a story loosely based on my childhood. I think I'm always delighted and surprised that tens of millions of people around the world are tuning into this story, because it seems so specific. Were you surprised by the reaction, or is it what you expected given the talent behind this series? The first season of Never Have I Ever was a hit, but the reception of the second cemented just how deeply fans adore this show. As Never Have I Ever gets the green light for a third season and Kaling readies herself for another wave of attention, she sat down with to discuss all that's on the docket. “I have a pen pal named Jalisa, and we talk about our problems-it's incredibly private and emotionally nourishing,” Kaling tells .Īs she continues to lure more more projects to her table-including the highly anticipated Legally Blonde 3-Kaling believes these relationships will only prove more necessary for her life and life's work. The idea is to give these women, who are often undergoing massive life changes-promotions, marriages, kids, moves-a vessel to share their issues. Maxx to launch The Change Exchange, a charity campaign and letter-writing program pairing women from around the world as pen pals. It's part of why she recently partnered with T.J. But, Kaling says, she's also developed a passion for connecting with other women, collecting their accounts and feeding her storytelling with them. Certainly many of these tales bubble up from her own life-she has a particular talent for digging through her history and mining gold for essays (or, ideally, TV shows). Let's see, what else? Her teen dramedy Never Have I Ever is one of Netflix's greatest success stories she has an HBO Max series set to debut this fall and she's gearing up to voice one of animation's most adored (and, arguably, misunderstood) icons: Scooby Doo's Velma Dinkley.īut perhaps what makes Kaling such an effervescent figure in an overstretched television landscape is not her work ethic, but her magnetic attraction to overlooked stories. ![]() ![]() If you're in the bad business of comparing your output to others', might I suggest avoiding Mindy Kaling's resume? In the years since her acclaimed turn as Kelly Kapoor on The Office and the success of her self-styled rom-com The Mindy Project, her rise in Hollywood has expanded to a whopping writer-producer-actress dominion-and she's also published three books, most recently the 2020 Amazon Original Stories essay collection Nothing Like I Imagined. “Hearst Magazines and Verizon Media may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below.” ![]()
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