The 'Never Have I Ever' co-creator said that the exchange took place while she was 25 and working on 'The Office' with a co-worker in another writers room.
Mindy Kaling Responds to Backlash Over South Asian 'Velma,' Jokes About Misremembering Representation in 'Monsters Inc.'The writer and actress said that the incident forced her to look inward and think about the way other people were responding to her and her body. “I had a reckoning where I’m like, ‘People are scrutinizing [me], and not only are they scrutinizing [me], they’re verbalizing their displeasure with how I look because I don’t look a certain way.
“That kind of dissonance has really affected so much of what I write about [and] the kind of characters I play,” she added. “Almost all of those kinds of things [in my work] come from something really real.”New York Times best-selling author says, is a real and normal character that young viewers can “look to and feel seen.”
“I was obsessed with TV as a kid and it informed my worldview and it informed who I was attracted to. It informed so much, right? And it makes me so happy that this show can be on Netflix, 40 million people can watch it, it’s No. 1 around the world and it stars a girl who is a young, dark-skinned Indian girl,” she said.star says she experienced when she was growing up and looking for representation of different body types on-screen.
“On TV, if you were really thin, then you could be the lead. Otherwise, you had to be like 250 pounds, and you had to be the slapstick comic relief. But what was crazy, what was left out, is just like this range of people which is a majority of American women over the age of 24,” she said. “What if you’re like a [size] 12 and you want to just live your life and look cute and date? At that time, when I wrote Is[in 2011] it was like a no man’s land. That has really changed, I think.
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