Mindy Kaling is addressing her break from acting.

While she’s stayed busy writing, producing, and directing TV shows, the 45-year-old star last acted in 2023 when she appeared on an episode of The Morning Show .

In a new interview, Mindy explained why she stepped back from acting and didn’t make a cameo on her Netflix series Never Have I Ever , which 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 joked while speaking as part of the Paley Media Council Series, per The Hollywood Reporter .

“I think there is a part of me that feels a little superstitious,” Mindy admitted. “I’m like, these seem to have gone well and I’m not in them so ma

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