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actor Xosha Roquemore loosely based on Roquemore’s life as a working mom in Hollywood. The company isn’t totally abandoning the teen girl: Kaling is producing and starring inspinoff. Nor has she forsaken the rom-com: She is teaming with Priyanka Chopra Jonas for a movie set at an Indian wedding.
Today, for example, Kaling woke up at 5:15 a.m. after she heard her four-year-old daughter stirring. Instead of going back to sleep, she pulled her laptop into bed, and began to edit pitches and scripts through the pre-dawn hours. She offered notes on a third season episode of, prepped a presentation she’ll give later that day to Warner Bros.
Kaling and her co-creator Justin Noble accomplish the near-impossible feat of fulfilling the title’s promised raunchiness while approaching the tricky subject of college sex in the #MeToo era. Kaling uses an intimacy coordinator to facilitate authenticity and comfort for her young performers. That’s no easy feat for storylines like one in which a character offers handjobs to six classmates in the hopes that doing so will earn her a coveted spot on the campus’ humor magazine.
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