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"Remember when you were a kid and you wore out the VCR watching your favorite cartoon over and over again? So much so that your mom would threaten to turn off the TV if you didn&amp;#x27;t go outside to play and join &amp;quot;the real world&amp;quot;? Well, some things never change because fast-forward to 2014 and I&amp;#x27;m pretty sure my computer might block me from watching tonight&amp;#x27;s Mindy Project finale over and over and over again. It&amp;#x27;s gotten that bad. But tonight&amp;#x27;s season-two finale was that good. In fact, it was so good that my planned 15-minute interview with Chris Messina turned into a half-hour gushfest. Read on! [CAREFUL: SPOILERS AHEAD!] Glamour: The finale was amazing. I just kept thinking: What are the odds you grew up thinking, One day I&amp;#x27;m going to be in a romantic comedy running around New York City to Bruce Springsteen and the Cars? Chris Messina: It&amp;amp;#8217;s amazing! Mindy Kaling is just great with music, she really is. That&amp;amp;#8217;s all her. She was playing me that Cars song right before the finale. And though I probably didn&amp;amp;#8217;t picture myself running through the streets of New York, I&amp;amp;#8217;d think about sitting in the backseat of my parents&amp;#x27; car. We&amp;amp;#8217;d be driving somewhere on a long road trip, and I&amp;amp;#8217;d gaze out the window and pretend I was in the movie of that song. So it&amp;amp;#8217;s funny when I do have those moments, and then you [end up] running through the streets of New York City to Bruce Springsteen. Glamour: My first reaction to the finale was that it&amp;#x27;s a classic John Hughes film in TV form. Chris: Wow. That&amp;amp;#8217;s awesome. Glamour: It just hit all the right notes. What did you think when you first read the script? Chris: I loved the writing. Mindy understands that genre so well and always has such a fresh take on it. We got to shoot in New York, which was great for the show. I mean, you&amp;amp;#8217;ve been to our lot. We shoot in a bubble [at Universal Studios]. Being in New York&amp;amp;#8212;not only experiencing the energy of the city, but getting to hear people&amp;amp;#8217;s response to the show&amp;amp;#8212;that was really fun. I wish the whole cast went with us to experience that because it was such a love for the show there. People in L.A. say really nice things too, but I&amp;amp;#8217;m kind of a homebody, so I don&amp;amp;#8217;t get out as much as I should. [Laughs] Glamour: I was on the set for the finale, but the original plan didn&amp;#x27;t include going to New York. It wasn&amp;amp;#8217;t until about a month later that the decision was made to film scenes there. How much changed in the original script because of that decision? Chris: I don&amp;amp;#8217;t know if it changed that much. Usually Mindy&amp;amp;#8217;s first drafts are pretty [spot-on]. I don&amp;amp;#8217;t know if she had it in her mind to shoot in New York or where that came from. What happened was that Mindy texted me and said, &amp;quot;What are your plans after we&amp;amp;#8217;re done shooting?&amp;quot; I kind of was like, &amp;quot;Why?&amp;quot; Glamour: Knowing you, you probably were like, &amp;quot;Wait, are we doing 36 episodes now?&amp;quot; Chris: [Laughs] I mean, I love the show, but it&amp;amp;#8217;s nice to have a summer break. You&amp;amp;#8217;re just so tired at the end of the season, and I knew I had a lot to finish up with my movie [Alex of Venice, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival], plus The Newsroom was coming up. But they were very accommodating and said, &amp;quot;We will work it out; whatever is easiest for you.&amp;quot; It worked out perfectly, and they were really great. And being in New York, I was so psyched to be there. Glamour: You&amp;#x27;re going to laugh at this comparison, but in the scene where the gang sees you eating a pizza and tell you that you have to meet Mindy&amp;amp;#8212;did you ever see the Muppets Take Manhattan? Chris: Like the original one? Yes! Glamour: Yes, where Kermit is trying to sell his play on Broadway! So Morgan, Peter, Tamra, Jeremy, Beverly&amp;amp;#8212;they were all like the Muppets, and you are Kermit on your way to win Mindy back, but then, just like Kermit, he gets hit by a car and develops amnesia. Chris: That is amazing! Was Kermit running to tell Miss Piggy he loved her? Glamour: No, he was running to tell the rest of the Muppets that he got the show on Broadway. Chris: Oh my God, I was Kermit the frog! That is a good comparison! [Laughs] Glamour: Although with you, I kept thinking, Oh crap, Danny better not get amnesia and forget who the heck he&amp;amp;#8217;s in love with! Chris: That is so funny. Did me getting hit by the car look good? [Ed. note: Chris hadn&amp;#x27;t seen the entire episode yet when we did this interview last Friday]. Glamour: It looks really good, very realistic. I was thinking, There&amp;amp;#8217;s no way he did that and didn&amp;amp;#8217;t end up with a couple of bruises after. Chris: They padded me, and I did a bit of the roll, but the stunt guy did the harder part. Glamour: Well, it was very realistic. Chris: OK, good. Glamour: So, that kiss at the end was amazing. But I&amp;amp;#8217;m kind of a clean freak, so all I could think of was &amp;quot;How dirty is that floor?!&amp;quot; I hope they disinfected that before you got busy. [Laughs] Chris: Haha! Well, that wasn&amp;amp;#8217;t actually at the Empire State Building. Our incredible production designers and art designers made the top deck of the Empire State Building, and it was awesome. It wasn&amp;amp;#8217;t nearly as dirty as if we were on the floor of the actual Empire State Building top deck, but it was still a little dirty. Glamour: Nice butt grab at the end. That&amp;#x27;s your signature Messina move now, isn&amp;#x27;t it? Chris: When you think about the ups and downs and twists and turns of these characters, it was just a classic Danny Castellano move. I mean, he really works quickly. He goes right for it! Glamour: Yes, and you do that quite well. Chris: I don&amp;amp;#8217;t mean for this to sound like false modesty, but they really do write for me so well. Mindy is such a huge talent, and that whole writing staff is good, and they really have learned what I&amp;amp;#8217;m good at and what I&amp;amp;#8217;m not good at. I&amp;amp;#8217;m really lucky. Glamour: Going back to something you said earlier: You mentioned Mindy texted you about your availability for New York. You always tell me you live in the stone age, so I take it this means you do know how to text. [Laughs] Chris: Oh yeah! I&amp;amp;#8217;m quite good at that! This is nothing new, but I like texting because you don&amp;amp;#8217;t have to talk. [Laughs] Glamour: When the entire cast teased you about that at PaleyFest, I have to say it was one of the funniest things I&amp;#x27;ve ever seen. Speaking of, when that girl in the audience started playing the music to Aaliyah&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;Try Again&amp;quot; on her cell phone in hopes that you&amp;#x27;d dance to it, were you at all inclined to give it a go? Chris: Oh my gosh! Part of me was so excited and moved that someone would care that much about this dance to cue it up on her phone. I thought it was so sweet of her that I kind of wanted to do it for her, but then I got shy. And the truth of the matter is, I forgot a lot of [the dance moves], so it would have taken me a couple tries to figure it back out again. But for a moment I was inspired, and then the moment went away rather quickly. [Laughs] But it was very, very kind of her! And that&amp;amp;#8217;s what happened in New York, although people were kind of mad at me in New York because Danny had just broken up with Mindy, but it was almost satisfying because that meant they were so involved. Glamour: I just want to tell you about your unbelievable fans on Twitter that I&amp;amp;#8217;ve gotten a chance to know... Chris: That&amp;amp;#8217;s amazing. Glamour: I have to send you a picture that @metetomas sent to me after I did the interview with you on the set. He superimposed our heads on a picture of a dance couple and captioned it, &amp;quot;This is how I imagined your Chris Messina interview went.&amp;quot; Chris: Oh my God! You have to send it to me. Glamour: It is the funniest thing. They are the nicest, most creative fans. Chris: You should challenge that guy to top that picture! They are very nice, and they are really supportive. At my movie, there was a rush line and it was sold out for tickets. I swear to you, the line of fans down the block was so moving, and it was so kind that they came out to support me and my directing. Glamour: I interview a lot of actors, and you are one of the most authentic, genuine, and nicest guys that I&amp;amp;#8217;ve gotten to know. Chris: That is so kind and nice of you to say. I appreciate it.You&amp;amp;#8217;ve just been so great to me and the show, and I love talking to you. Glamour: Now that we&amp;amp;#8217;ve had a mutual lovefest, where do you think we will pick up with Mindy and Danny in the fall? Chris: That&amp;amp;#8217;s a good question. I&amp;amp;#8217;m excited. I think what we can do is, I hope it has kind of a Lucy and Ricky feel to it, where there&amp;amp;#8217;s such love, but they still don&amp;amp;#8217;t see eye-to-eye on a lot of things. They still get completely annoyed with one another&amp;amp;#8212;bickering and fighting&amp;amp;#8212;but [have] constant love [for one another]. I think we have an opportunity to show our audience some really fun stuff about couples. It has been a show about dating, and I think the other characters will go on to date and have girlfriends and stuff like that, but I think it&amp;amp;#8217;d be fun to show a season of how [a relationship] looks for Mindy and Danny and the silly and crazy things they do together. I think we&amp;amp;#8217;ll pick up with seeing them in a good place, but still wrestling with being Mindy and Danny. Glamour: They have to because that is the essence of their characters. Chris: Yeah, and if there&amp;amp;#8217;s no conflict, there&amp;amp;#8217;s no comedy. I said this to Mindy, they gave me a lot of opportunities as an actor to have some dramatic stuff too, and I really cherished that because that&amp;amp;#8217;s where I feel most comfortable, so I hope they continue to incorporate that. Glamour: So one more thing: The bathroom scene with you and Mindy where you tell her you love her and she says she doesn&amp;#x27;t believe you...that was fantastic. Chris: She was great in that scene! I mean, what a great job where we get to laugh and have fun with our coworkers, and then also do scenes like that. She was so super and just super vulnerable. She&amp;amp;#8217;s always been extremely funny and has taught me so much about comedy, but throughout this last season, I&amp;amp;#8217;ve watched her get more and more comfortable with dramatic stuff. I just look at her when I&amp;amp;#8217;m acting with her and think, She&amp;amp;#8217;s just so fantastic. Glamour: First I was on a campaign to get you guys a season-three pick-up, so now that that&amp;#x27;s done, let&amp;#x27;s get you guys some Emmys. Chris: Listen, she&amp;amp;#8217;s just so fantastic and really deserves it. I&amp;amp;#8217;d love to see her get an Emmy nomination. There&amp;amp;#8217;s nothing that would make me happier. Glamour: She deserves it, you deserve it, Ike [Barinholtz; Morgan] deserves it. Chris: I just saw Ike in Neighbors and he is so funny! So funny! Glamour: By the way, will you be watching the finale together? Chris: I don&amp;amp;#8217;t know. I mean, every time we watch an episode together at an event where they screen it, I always get scared and kind of leave. I don&amp;amp;#8217;t watch it. [Laughs] It&amp;amp;#8217;s almost like, if I could watch it by myself twice, then I could watch it with everybody. But it would be fun to watch it with them! OK, guys, let&amp;#x27;s hear it! What&amp;#x27;d you think of tonight&amp;#x27;s finale? I can&amp;#x27;t wait to discuss it with you!"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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