
“I was nervous, leaving a show after eight years, having to say goodbye to my friends and the people that made it feel like a comfy place and a hit show,” she said. Kaling talked about her feelings around the decision to Entertainment Weekly. She created the show and Novak was a producer on it. Novak cut back on his role on The Office in season 9, and Kaling left so they could work on her new show, The Mindy Project. RELATED: ‘The Office’ Fans’ Favorite Cold Open Is Really a Blooper Because of This Mistake
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Stream the series finale of #MindyOnHulu on #LaterBabyĪ post shared by The Mindy Project on at 7:37am PST They actually ended up cutting back on their roles to continue working together. The actors still enjoyed working together despite their fights. All you’d know for sure as that you’d always find one of us next to the other, even if we weren’t getting along.”

“We were never really dating, we were never really not dating. “No one, including us, ever really knew, ‘Is this dating? Is this not dating?’” he said. The writer said their relationship wasn’t clearly defined. The tone that one of us would have about Thai food in general. The tone in choosing which place to order lunch from. “Honestly, we would sometimes not be speaking for an hour and I couldn’t remember why.

Novak told Vulture their character’s relationship was “an observation from the writers’ room that Mindy and I were extremely close and constantly fighting.” What would they fight about? Their roles of Kelly and Ryan were actually inspired by them. There were multiple actors who were also writers on The Office. RELATED: ‘The Office’: Mindy Kaling Threatened to Quit If This Fan-Favorite Cold Open Aired Novak as Ryan Howard on ‘The Office’ | Trae Patton/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank
