Mindy Kaling enjoys running point from behind the camera for now.

While the Office alum got her Hollywood start as both a writer and actress, she shared that she has purposefully avoided casting herself in her recent shows due to her own superstitions.

In fact, that’s why she didn’t even make a cameo in Never Have I Ever , a show that was partly inspired by her own Indian American upbringing.

“A show literally about an Indian American family in Southern California, and if I wasn’t on that—what’s wrong with me?” Mindy said while speaking as part of the Paley Media Council Series June 5, per The Hollywood Reporter . “I think there is a part of me that feels a little superstitious. I’m like, these seem to have gone well and I’m not in them so maybe I’ll wait.

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