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Mindy Kaling | Pop Quiz | Marie Claire
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8/8/2024
Mindy Kaling plays Pop Quiz with Marie Claire
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00:00
Jack Harlow, stop bothering me, I'm not gonna date you.
00:04
Hello, I'm Mindy Kaling,
00:05
and I'm playing Pop Quiz with Marie Claire.
00:10
Whoa, that was no joke.
00:12
What is the best gift you've ever received?
00:15
My children, just kidding, I wouldn't answer it that way.
00:17
My children are great, but the best gift I've ever received,
00:21
first is a grand piano
00:23
that my former boss, Robert Greenblatt, gave me.
00:26
And Ike Barinholtz, my old co-star on The Mindy Project
00:29
when we wrapped after six seasons, he gave me a Rolex.
00:33
Yeah, Ike Barinholtz, too much money on that guy.
00:38
Violence.
00:40
What is the last text that I sent?
00:42
Well, better find out.
00:44
Jack Harlow, stop bothering me, I'm not gonna date you.
00:47
That's pretty interesting.
00:49
Just kidding, I've met him once, he doesn't know who I am.
00:52
No, I didn't, I met him, and he said to me,
00:55
I met him at the Met Gala, and he said to me,
00:57
my mom would be so excited if you knew I was meeting you,
01:00
and I was like, oh my God, kill me.
01:02
I'm that old, I'm sure his mom is lovely, but.
01:07
My last text that I sent was to BJ Novak,
01:10
and it said, are you coming to dinner?
01:12
Please answer so we can order food.
01:15
What is the word your friends would use to describe you?
01:19
I wish it was luminous or generous.
01:22
It's definitely impatient.
01:25
The last song you got stuck in your head.
01:28
Okay, this is just like Jack Harlow Central.
01:30
I was listening to First Class, like on repeat at my house,
01:33
my assistants kept telling me, they're like,
01:35
it's like enough, okay, I'm not gonna talk
01:37
about Jack Harlow anymore, it's fine, we'll move on.
01:41
What is a word that makes you cringe?
01:43
Oh, woke, that word, it makes everybody cringe.
01:46
We use it too much.
01:49
Oh my gosh.
01:50
Okay, this is a hostile question.
01:52
Last book I read.
01:54
You think I read books?
01:56
It should have been like, last magazine I skimmed
01:58
at the doctor's office.
01:59
Okay, the last book I read was NW by Zadie Smith.
02:06
Favorite dance move, show us.
02:10
I'm a bad dancer, I've been told that multiple times.
02:14
I actually have a friend, Tracy Wigfield,
02:16
back when people used to do lip sync battle,
02:18
and they asked me to do it, I was so excited,
02:20
I was like, oh, I'll dance and do my lip syncing,
02:23
and at the Mindy Project, all the writers were like,
02:24
don't do that, you'll be just, your career will be over
02:29
if people can see you dance.
02:31
So I am a bad dancer, I guess the only dance
02:34
that I would do, I really use my hands a lot,
02:37
so I think like, this is my move.
02:41
Like I'm really feeling the music, that's it.
02:46
How did you make your first dollar?
02:48
Okay, this is gonna really age me.
02:50
I worked at a video store in the suburbs of Boston,
02:54
and back when they were like, actual videos,
02:57
and they turned from videos to DVDs.
03:00
But yeah, that's how I made my first money.
03:04
What should every woman try at least once in her life?
03:09
I think it's important for women to live alone,
03:11
if you can, at least once.
03:13
I think being okay with being by yourself is important.
03:18
I think it's actually important for men too,
03:19
but if you have the opportunity to do that
03:21
and the means, I highly recommend.
03:25
What is my guilty pleasure watch?
03:28
So, I do not believe in the term guilty pleasures,
03:32
because I tend to think as someone who writes things
03:34
that star women, guilty pleasures are 90%
03:37
things that star women.
03:39
Men don't think of the Transformers or Top Gun
03:42
as guilty pleasures, they're just like,
03:43
it's my pleasure, I love it.
03:44
And with women, we're like, I can't believe,
03:46
I like Real Housewives, or I like this,
03:49
and it's like, no, I like what I like.
03:51
So, I don't believe in guilty pleasures.
03:55
I can tell I'm gonna be finding this
03:57
in my bra later tonight.
03:59
Do you have any secret talents?
04:01
Show us.
04:02
No, I've monetized all of my talents.
04:04
You've seen everything.
04:05
In fact, I've monetized things that I'm not even good at.
04:11
I'm fully eating it now.
04:12
Oh, go-to late night snack.
04:17
So, I have never gotten leftovers from a restaurant
04:19
and not eaten it that night.
04:21
So, I would say anything that I won't go out to dinner,
04:24
I'll eat that around like 11.30.
04:26
The other thing I love late at night is popcorn,
04:28
which is a recipe for kernels in your teeth
04:31
when you wake up, but I am what I am.
04:35
What makes you feel most powerful and confident?
04:40
This is a simple answer, but it's something
04:42
I think women are embarrassed to talk about.
04:45
Being wealthy.
04:46
My power came from me having enough money
04:49
that I can have independence,
04:51
and that's what makes me feel confident.
04:53
So, I had kids later in my life,
04:56
but I did it so that I could take care of them by myself,
04:59
and that makes me feel really good.
05:03
What advice would you give your younger self?
05:06
So, this would work if my younger self
05:09
was someone who was really amenable and open-minded,
05:12
but as a young person, I thought I knew all the answers
05:16
and that everyone around me was dumb,
05:18
so I don't know that I would listen to it.
05:20
But the advice that I would try to impart on them
05:24
is to never take nude photos of myself.
05:28
That's it.
05:28
I know there's other bigger things,
05:30
but I think if you can go through your life
05:32
without having yourself captured naked on your phone,
05:35
then I think you're gonna be okay.
05:38
The number one thing on my bucket list.
05:44
The number one thing on my bucket list this week
05:47
is to direct a movie.
05:50
What is my most star-struck moment?
05:52
Well, one time I was going to Vegas to promote a movie.
05:58
On the way back, they kind of randomly assigned you
06:00
on a jet to go back to LA,
06:03
and it was just me and Bradley Cooper.
06:06
And I was like, okay, well, he's Bradley Cooper.
06:09
He's here to promote A Star Is Born.
06:10
I'll just sit at the back, and he can sit with his reps.
06:14
And he just came over and was like,
06:16
hey, Mindy, how's it going?
06:17
What's going on with your life?
06:18
And we spent, I think it was the best 45 minutes of my life.
06:24
He was so, he had questions about my life.
06:27
That's how you know he's well-raised.
06:28
He was asking about boring old me.
06:30
But like with a lot of smart people who are inquisitive,
06:34
it got like really deep, really fast.
06:36
And then when the plane landed,
06:38
I felt like I was still in the trance.
06:40
And he's like, okay, bye.
06:41
And I was like, ah, what about our bond?
06:44
The last silver balloon is the bonus question.
06:48
How do you fit wellness into your everyday life?
06:51
So for me, wellness, I feel well,
06:53
and it's easy for me to walk or run 12 to 15 miles a week.
06:58
It's like my antidepressant.
07:00
Drink a ton of water.
07:02
I wake up in the morning and I drink 16 ounces of water
07:04
immediately while I'm sitting in bed before I do anything.
07:09
Wellness to me is making sure
07:12
that I have like a good conversation with my dad
07:14
kind of every day.
07:15
We speak on the phone or see each other in person every day.
07:19
And then just like, you know, my kids are little,
07:21
but my daughter's old enough that I can just like
07:24
talk to her about her emotional life
07:26
and talk to her about mine.
07:28
You know, I think saying like, how was your day?
07:31
How are you feeling today?
07:33
And then even if she doesn't ask,
07:34
because she doesn't, because she's so little,
07:34
I'll tell her how I'm feeling that day
07:36
and how that day went.
07:38
And that is good.
07:39
It keeps me feeling really connected
07:41
to the people in my life,
07:42
and also that I took a little time
07:44
to make sure that I'm healthy,
07:45
which feels like an indulgence.
07:47
That was Pop Quiz with Marie Claire.
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