Mindy Kaling Says TV Academy Tried to Remove Her 'Office' Producing Credit

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Mindy Kaling ( @mindykaling) says TV Academy tried to remove her #TheOffice producing credit https://t.co/VaiOgJEl4x pic.twitter.com/adfJEaJBdL
- Hollywood Reporter (@THR) October 9, 2019
Mindy Kaling is one of the actresses featured in Elle's Women in Hollywood issue. In her interview, Mindy Kaling calls out the Television Academy for trying to

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[scriptedending]

For anyone who doubts her, I think this is a great point:

I’ve never wanted to bring up that incident because The Office was one of the greatest creative experiences of my life, and who would want to have an adversarial relationship with the Academy, who has the ongoing power to enhance our careers with awards?

Like, she has absolutely nothing to gain from speaking out on this, but I'm glad she did.

[aleksie]

It's sad and fucked up that she had to carry the weight/responsibility for all of them.

[inkstainedlips]

That is so rotten.

I just realized I forgot to go see Late Night but it's on prime so that's what I'm doing either tonight or this weekend.

[scriptedending]

I loved it so much. I should watch it again.

[elderpricely]

that's so demeaning.

[syvlie0o0]

That’s such bullshit and it absolutely happened because she’s a woman and was the most junior writer, even though in the end she had the most writing credits for the show.

[lolita_applebum]

I'm glad she's becoming more and more outspoken about the racism she faced in the industry. I guess, the more powerful she is, she's less likely to face consequences now. It's better than some of the self-hating Asian snippets we use to get from her.

[justrachna]

I think she listened to criticism and grown a lot

[ext_2955702]

thats good and should be the point of this very selective cancelling culture.

[lolita_applebum]

true. it's only recently I started to come around to her around and I think it's because she learned and changed her tune.