Mindy Kaling Reveals How She Transformed Into ‘The Office’s’ Michael Scott After Becoming a Parent
Mindy Kaling is in her Michael Scott era.
The actress explained that she relates to The Office character, played by Steve Carell, after welcoming three children during an appearance on The Drew Barrymore Show on Friday. Kaling is a mother to daughters Katherine and Anne, and son Spencer.
Kaling recalled working on the episode in which Scott “was on a child TV show, and they asked him ‘What do you wanna do when you grow up?’ And he says, ‘I wanna have 100 kids, so I can have 100 friends, and no one can say no to being my friend.’”
Kaling, who was a writer and actor on the NBC sitcom, added that she wrote the episode when she was 25 and “so far from thinking of having kids.”
“I thought, ‘Oh, that’s like, so funny and sad that like a grownup would wanna have kids to have friends,’” she explained. “Now cut to me being like, ‘Oh, I can’t wait — I have two daughters — I can’t wait until they get older so they can be my pals.’”
“I am Michael Scott,” Kaling jokingly said. “But I just want them to become like in their 20s and be my pals.”
Kaling played customer service representative Kelly Kapoor for eight seasons of The Office, departing the show in 2012 to work on The Mindy Project. The Sex Lives of College Girls creator previously said that she would consider reprising her role if the show was rebooted.
“It’s been such a long time since I’ve acted as Kelly Kapoor that I’m like, ‘Oh, I’d have to get into character’ — not to sound method,” the actress told People in May. “But I’m like, ‘What would she be like? At my age?’”
“For that group of people, I would definitely — I’d be open to it,” she added.
While there is no Office reboot in the works, there is a follow-up series headed to Peacock, as previously reported by The Hollywood Reporter. The untitled comedy series, co-created by The Office’s Greg Daniels and Nathan for You co-creator Michael Koman, will star Domhnall Gleeson (About Time, Ex-Machina) and Sabrina Impacciatore (The White Lotus). The series will focus on “a dying historic Midwestern newspaper and the publisher trying to revive it with volunteer reporters,” according to the formal logline.
Source: Hollywoodreporter
