4/16/2023 0 Comments The mindy project office cameos![]() ![]() "We only cast my parents in it, which just seems like a complete act of nepotism and favoritism, because we had auditioned the parts and Greg felt that the actors we found in that age group (late 50s/early 60s) were either too theatrical for the style of acting on our show, or too stilted, because they had no acting experience," Kaling said. Mindy's real mom and dad playing Kelly's parents. ![]() "I really like that Kelly has this defiant attitude about that it's really important, while also not knowing anything about it at all." How Mindy's parents got cast on The Officeįans may already be aware that Kaling's actual parents - her dad, Avu Chokalingam, and her mom, Swati, who died from pancreatic cancer in 2012 - played Kelly's parents in "Diwali." But Kaling told Fischer and Kinsey the details of how exactly they wound up getting cast on the show. "I like that Greg thought that was just as interesting - if not more interesting - than me going and like pretending that my family and I were these experts at Hindu holidays," she said. I had to kind of confront the fact that I'm Indian-American, I don't know very much about the holiday, and the bad experience of being Indian-American and talking about how you don't know very much about the holiday kind of became a big part of the episode, which I loved," Kaling explained. "One of the harder things when you write the 'Diwali' episode is that we couldn't believe Greg said yes. Mindy Kaling in "Diwali" Credit: the office / nbc / netflix ![]()
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