Mindy Kaling used to be a “workaholic type A”.
Mindy Kaling has found a healthy balance
The 46-year-old star has enjoyed a hugely successful career as a writer and as an actress – but according to Ike Barinholtz, Mindy’s co-creator of Running Point, she’s found a healthier work-life balance in recent years.
Ike told Bustle: “She’s really gone from someone who was, I would say, almost a workaholic type A to having a pretty good balance now.”
Running Point tells the story of a reformed party girl who is left to run her family’s pro basketball team. Mindy – who has kids Kit, eight, Spencer, five, and Anne, two – feels passionate about the show, but she’s also able to switch off at the end of the working day.
Ike said: “We get to the writers’ room, and we always have 15 minutes of gossip and talking about shows we watched and showing funny clips of stuff online, but then we really lock in. And she’s able to, at four or five o’clock, be like, ‘OK, I’m going to make dinner for my kids.’
“Watching her balance all this stuff — multiple shows and movies and kids and friendships — she never ceases to not impress me.”
Meanwhile, Mindy previously admitted that she feels most comfortable writing about “strivers and dorks”.
The Hollywood star is a huge fan of the hit TV drama series Euphoria – which stars the likes of Zendaya, Jacob Elordi and Sydney Sweeney – but Mindy doubts she could write a similar type of TV show.
Mindy told The Hollywood Reporter: “I love Euphoria and I think [creator] Sam [Levinson] is like a genius. I think he has a lot to say about things like sex and drug use and addiction and those are incredibly interesting, but we don’t have a ton of experience in that.
“I watch that show on the edge of my seat, vicariously, but I feel like nerds lusting over guys is more what we feel comfortable writing about so that’s why we do this. We write about strivers and dorks and people who are underestimated.”
