Ever since Mindy Kaling left The Office , she's been a household name and a show runner actors deeply want to work for. But, it's been years since we've last seen Mindy on screen. During a conversation with The Hollywood Reporter , she revealed why.
"I think there is a part of me that feels a little superstitious," Mindy said. "I'm like, 'these seem to have gone well and I'm not in them so maybe I'll wait.'"
Mindy's career
© Getty Mindy and Kate Hudson at the premier of "Running Point"
Mindy's first television show as show runner was The Mindy Project in which she starred as OBGYN Mindy Lahiri. The series ran for six seasons and earned a cult following. In 2020, Mindy's show Never Have I Ever , which is a show about "an Indian American family in Southern California", pr