Ağustos 2020

One of these is African United states. The primary character is Indian United states. And in addition they’re referred to as UN. And she assumes this means un, you realize? But this woman is additionally told it really is for a more negative reason, since they’re all un-F-able (ph) So were you called anything like this when you’re in senior school?

KALING: you understand, I’m particular we happened to be. I never ever discovered it to my face. I am certain there is a lot of mean nicknames for me because I would personally hear mean nicknames about other nerdy girls have been perhaps not me personally. And, you realize, there is a girl that is tall we went along to college with, who was simply extremely gorgeous, really. But she ended up being high. And because all of the men had been reduced them insecure, they called her Beasta (ph) than her and that made. And she had no proven fact that ended up being her nickname.

Therefore whenever you learn about things such as that – after all, which is this kind of cruel nickname.

We simply thought, these girls need to have this. And, you understand, which has been a reflection that is real of in twelfth grade and my pal, Lang also, where we had been nerds. And I Also’m Asian. Whether it was comfort so we were just gravitated – I don’t know. We gravitated towards other minority nerds. And it also was not one thing we’d seen on TV prior to. I was thinking, well, you understand, this might be my genuine experience. Therefore possibly we must show it.

GROSS: had been that you student that is serious the key character is?

KALING: It really is funny you asked that because I happened to be a student that is serious. But something we noticed as soon as we see programs about nerds is the fact that, they tend to be very demure and wallflowers because they tend to be a lot of the side characters. They don’t really wish to speak up for themselves.