The pitfalls of a press set visit is inadvertently giving away what’s happening in a TV show months down the road.
So when Mindy’s apartment is decorated with “Happy Wedding Day” banners and tables are piled high with silvery-wrapped gifts and there’s a cake congratulating Mindy & Casey, you can kind of surmise that the season premier of “The Mindy Project” includes a wedding celebration.
“I’m not very good at this,” Mindy Kaling said as the visitors picked up the details of the development while visiting this week.
Kaling was still sporting the short hair she wore at the end of its first season, as a demonstration of how far she’ll go to go to Haiti with her boyfriend.
As the second season begins next month, “we felt like it would be lame if we
didn’t actually go to Haiti,” producer Matt Warburton says, “So we do.”
“And then we follow my journey back to New York and see what happens,” Kaling says, “and then there’s my nemesis played by James Franco.”
As for the hair, “this is a wig right now,” Kaling says, “which I have loved.
“Chopping your hair off is something every woman fantasizes about doing,” she says. And the fact that her real hair is still long, “I get to have it both ways.”
“The Mindy Project” saw an evolution of her character as well. While at first she was presented as a kind of prickly person, she softened as the season went on.
“As it turns out, you shouldn’t be on TV and be like I want to be unlikable,” she says. “The character has evolved a little bit, I think.”