Constance Wu couldn’t help but notice the similarity between Mindy Kaling’s real life and her character on “Late Night” and Kaling’s career itself.
The film which breaking up the writer’s room boy’s club on a late night comedy show.“The character is definitely based, a lot, on the way that I was when I started ‘The Office,”‘ which Kaling wrote produced and acted on.
“I was the only person of color and the only woman, in a staff of seven.
It was a small staff, that was 2004 and now that would be absolutely insane.”Kaling continued explaining the worry she carried with her due to the lack of representation, “A lot of times when you come into a room and you’re the only person of color or only woman if you’re working with a lot of white guys and they say something dumb
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