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Quinta Brunsonis one ofMindy Kaling’s biggest fans — and she believes more people should join her in shouting from the rooftops about Kaling’s career wins.
TheAbbott Elementarystar, 32, name-checked the formerMindy Projectcreator and star on Thursday as one of theHollywood power players she’s most excited to work withmoving forward.
“She has a little renaissance happening,” Brunson, 32, toldThe Hollywood Reporterof Kaling, 43. “I don’t think what she’s doing is easy to pull off, and I feel like people are sleeping on her.”
She continued, “I get it, she’s Mindy Kaling, so they’re not really. But if she were a man, people would never stop talking about her. What she’s doing is really hard to pull off.Never Have I Everhas a K-pop-level standom around it, andSex Lives of College Girlsis just a really good f—ing show thatpeople can’t wait to come back.”
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Kaling found widespread fame as Kelly Kapoor for nine seasonsThe Officebefore headliningThe Mindy Projecton Fox, then Hulu, from 2012 to 2017. She’s currently pulling double duty as a writer and executive producer on shows for both Netflix and HBO Max.
“This is a show that we thought only a certain group of people would like, and that wasn’t the case,” she explained. “And it gave us confidence to explore more of these storylines that we felt that previously, we would’ve been like, ‘That seems too specific, people aren’t going to like it.’ So yeah, that’s been the biggest surprise to me.”
She also shared, “One of the great things about a show like this, and creating it, is that every character, I think, represents a different side of my personality.”
As forSex Lives of College Girls, she explained, “I was not interested in writing about a repressed young Asian woman. I wanted to do a sex-positive show with women who, even though they are very different from each other, have an unabashed attitude toward sexuality and excitement about their adventurous lives.”
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Abbott Elementaryairs Wednesdays at 9 p.m. ET on ABC, all three seasons ofNever Have I Everare streaming on Netflix and season 2 ofThe Sex Lives of College Girlspremieres Nov. 17 on HBO Max.
source: people.com
