Mindy Kaling Responds to Criticism Around Her Role as Scooby Doo’s Velma

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Published on July 23, 2021

Mindy Kaling talks about breaking barriers with her role in Monsters at Work, how supportive her daughter is of her work on the show and how people responded to her landing the role of Velma in the Scooby Doo spinoff.

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15 comments

  • Keval Vora 3 years ago

    She is the best

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  • New Message 3 years ago

    Quite the thigh gap on her monster character there..

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  • iDeAs Born 3 years ago

    Forget the earth is burning, a woman of color is playing a cartoon character! THE OUTRAGE!!!!

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  • ParadoxPixels 3 years ago

    Mindy is Not telling the full truth, the main reason Twitter got angry was because the new Velma show that was announced is Retconning the whole idea of “ScoobyDoo” and the other characters. The fact that its a show about the Velma character in a world where Scooby Doo or other supporting characters doesnt exist makes no sense to me. Its not a Velma story its literally a detective who just happens to be named Velma.

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  • DEF 3 years ago

    At first I was worried a forty year-old Mindy was playing a teenaged Velma. Realizing it was just for the voice of an animated character, I was fine with it.

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  • Arleen Mapes 3 years ago

    voo.fyi
    diverting

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  • crithon 3 years ago

    REM? Counting Crows? I thought I was her age…. and I felt that’s “basic” if I time traveled to then.
    The problem with the 90s was that “realism” when in reality a lot of us were geting VHS fan sub Anime, playing video games, and downloading music. It was FAR more colorful, then counting crows’ “this is real emotions that we should feel when we are 28 years old.”

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  • Darsh 3 years ago

    Wtf happened to her face.

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  • JackieWarner13 3 years ago

    I love Mindy!

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  • kdhymes 3 years ago

    Another question is: why is a scooby doo movie the appropriate use of her talents? Does her agent hate culture AND comedy?

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  • F. N. Lorter 3 years ago

    Isn’t Velma supposed to be Japanese?

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  • black bird 3 years ago

    Unseen, she’s a perfect “Velma” there’s NO way criticism is going to stick. Velma was plucky and intrepid!

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  • CaptainWonderButt. 3 years ago

    Please Mindy, go away. No one cares.

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  • Koral Davis 3 years ago

    Mindy is a little peanut butter fudge brownie

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  • Koral Davis 3 years ago

    I love her character Val. Sweet, perky and funny

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