Had been that the turning point 12 months for you personally?
KALING: So the storyline of why we did the show had been a bit unromantic in that I became approached by Netflix, by the administrator named Brooke Kessler, that has read each of my publications and enjoyed the parts about whenever I had been a teen. And the ones are pretty sections that are short, like lots of comedy article writers, i believe of my adolescence and youth as extremely painfully embarrssing (laughter). But she liked those actions, and she had seen that we had maybe maybe maybe not dramatized them. And thus she wanted to understand if i might ever think about that, and she thought it’d be a great fit for Netflix because there had never ever been a show about an Indian United states girl on television.
And also at very very first, I was thinking it would, honestly, be too painfully embarrssing to relive those experiences, also it wound up being really cathartic we talked about our teenage years, which all happened at different times, obviously, ’cause I’m older than most of the staff because I hired a staff of many young Indian women, and. Read More →