Mindy Kaling.Photo: Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty
Mindy Kalingis looking back onThe Mindy Projectin celebration of its milestone anniversary.
In anInstagrampost Tuesday, Kaling, 43, shared a montage of scenes from the series that ran from 2012-2017, commemorating its 10-year anniversary.
“This Sunday marks the 10 year (!!!) anniversary of the premiere of The Mindy Project. I love this show so much,” the post began. “The cast, crew and writers room remain some of my favorite and most important people in my life today. I wanted to play a woman who was basically a good person, but also very insane, and had tons of stuff she needed to work on. Coming fromThe Office, I wanted the show to be packed with jokes, but also, likeYou’ve Got MailorWhen Harry Met Sally, really romantic and made you want to live in New York City.”
“In addition, I wanted to wear head-to-toe amazing designer fits even though I wasn’t (and still am not) a size 2,” she wrote. “I think we accomplished that! It will always be the most fun six years (117 episodes!) of my life!”
The Officealum said she would be sharing some of her favorite “moments and scenes” from the series throughout the week.
The Mindy Projectfirst premiered on Fox in 2012. The series ran for three seasons on the network before Hulu picked it up, where it continued for three more seasons before its finale in 2017.
Kaling has long been an outspoken about body positivity, both on and off the show.
Last year, sherecalled a “devastating” momentwhen she felt mostself-conscious about her body,and said it was when she was 25, workingas a writer and actor.
“This is my greatest insecurity and someone just called it out,“she recalled toGood Morning America. “It’s really devastating.”
Kaling, who said that she was regularly getting up early in the morning during that time to fit in a gym workout before her dual jobs, took the incident as a moment for self-reflection.
“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 said. “Almost all of those kinds of things [in my work] come from something really real.”
TheNever Have I Everco-creatorsaid that for years, there was a lack of diverse body types in Hollywood.
Mindy Kaling.Everett Collection
In September of last year, Kaling shared a throwback photo of the cast on the set ofThe Mindy Project, writing on her Instagram, “I found this in my favorites in my pics.”
The group shot showed Kaling sitting amongst her costars — including Ed Weeks, Ike Barinholtz,Rebecca Rittenhouse, Xosha Roquemore, Fortune Feimster, Garret Dillahunt — sitting inside a conference room at the fictitious Shulman and Associates medical office.
“The gang from Shulman and Associates!” she continued her caption, before noting castmate Beth Grant, Adam Pally andChris Messina’s absence from the picture. “We are missing @bethgrantactor and @adam.pally and Chris, but I love these conference room scenes so much. Ed was usually running a meeting and we kept interrupting.”
“Man I miss these guys,” Kaling added alongside a red heart emoji.In 2019, Rittenhouse — who went on to work with Kaling again in Hulu’sFour Weddings and a Funeral—toldPEOPLE Nowthat the actress is “the best boss you could ever hope to have.”
source: people.com
