Armchair Expert episode 843
Mindy Kaling
Mindy Kaling (Running Point, The Mindy Project, Never Have I Ever) is an Emmy-nominated writer, actor, and producer. Mindy joins the Armchair Expert to discuss how she is the only the second person Dax has ever worn a suit for, relate over the sexiness and status marker of a good yard, and ask whether one can be Indian on the west side of LA. Mindy and Dax talk about her parents coming from two different parts of India and their meet cute in Africa, how every show she makes has a slow motion shot of a shirtless man's torso, and why accidentally breaking her costar's nose during a play taught her the true meaning of ‘the show must go on.' Mindy explains how Reese Witherspoon convinced her not to wait to have kids, developing the assumption that she wouldn't be truly great in anything unless she wrote it herself, and how her relationship with her mother has actually continued since her passing.
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Mindy Kaling (Running Point, The Mindy Project, Never Have I Ever) is an Emmy-nominated writer, actor, and producer. Mindy joins the Armchair Expert to discuss how she is the only the second person Dax has ever worn a suit for, relate over the sexiness and status marker of a good yard, and ask whether one can be Indian on the west side of LA. Mindy and Dax talk about her parents coming from two different parts of India and their meet cute in Africa, how every show she makes has a slow motion shot of a shirtless man's torso, and why accidentally breaking her costar's nose during a play taught her the true meaning of ‘the show must go on.' Mindy explains how Reese Witherspoon convinced her not to wait to have kids, developing the assumption that she wouldn't be truly great in anything unless she wrote it herself, and how her relationship with her mother has actually continued since her passing.
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- welcome welcome welcome to armchair expert I'm Dan Rather and I'm joined by Lily padman now this people were curious
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