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"There&amp;#39;s an expression that says you should never meet your idols, and for a long time I believed it. But now I say phooey to that because I met Mindy Kaling&amp;#8212;a.k.a. my ultimate BFF crush, show-runner of the hilarious Mindy Project, and an all-around badass inspiring woman&amp;#8212;and she was every bit as wonderful as I hoped. Dive in as we talk about the too-funny role she&amp;#39;d write for her dream guest star, her fashion tips, and more.\nPinterestFacebookGlamour: We&amp;#39;re such big fans of the show!\nMindy Kaling: I see your stuff online, and we&amp;#39;re so honored that you write about us. If there&amp;#39;s a Venn diagram of what Glamour&amp;#39;s interested in and what I&amp;#39;m interested in there&amp;#39;s a giant list.\nGlamour: So, who would be your dream costar?\nMK: James Franco is pretty up there, but I think Reese Witherspoon would be really wonderful. I&amp;#39;d love to have a funny relationship with her. And Danny McBride because he is the funniest man in the world, I think.\nGlamour: What kind of part would you write for someone like Danny McBride?\nMK: We&amp;#39;ve always had this idea that Mindy as a self-respecting 30-something-year-old woman is like, &amp;quot;Why don&amp;#39;t I have a gay best friend? Why aren&amp;#39;t gay guys interested in me when Carrie Bradshaw and everyone on Sex and the City had a gay friend?&amp;quot; She just can&amp;#39;t muster up a gay friend, so she meets Danny McBride, but he doesn&amp;#39;t want to go shopping and brunching with you&amp;#8212;instead, they get kicked out of places together all the time. That would be so fun. He was in This Is the End and I got to meet him. I&amp;#39;m just such a fan. I mean, hopefully, that would be great. He&amp;#39;s indicated that he&amp;#39;d be interested I&amp;#39;ve heard, but I don&amp;#39;t know.\n__Glamour: We thought we could talk fall and winter fashion and see what you would wear vs. what Mindy Lahiri would wear! To start, what&amp;#39;s the stance on fur and faux fur as outerwear? __\nMK: Well, Mindy Lahari would probably love fur. Me, Mindy Kaling, I think it&amp;#39;s luxurious, I think it&amp;#39;s kind of evil and decadent, and there are so many good alternatives to it. But Mindy, the character, I think there was a line where Mindy says to Danny, &amp;quot;You&amp;#39;re being dramatic&amp;quot; and Mindy says &amp;quot;I&amp;#39;m being dramatic? You threw fake blood on a woman wearing a fur coat because it was the same fur coat as yours.&amp;quot; I thought that was a very funny because she has no dependents, so I can see her wasting money on a fur coat and loving it.\nGlamour: What about hats and beanies?\nMK: I&amp;#39;ve got a huge head and very fine hair, so it&amp;#39;s a recipe of disaster for me to wear a hat. It gets matted and terrible. So, for me, it&amp;#39;s almost like never would I wear a hat, but I think that the character on the show because she has so much extra hair, she would rock hats all of the time. You know those sack hats that Alexa Chung can pull off? She&amp;#39;d try to get that.\nGlamour: Head-to-toe white?\nMK: Neither me, nor my character. Why wear white? It&amp;#39;s like, forget about dropping something on it. I don&amp;#39;t understand how anybody wears white.\nGlamour: Leopard?\nMK: Love leopard! I only wear it as accessories, but Mindy Lahiri would wear it head-to-toe.\nGlamour: And classic plaid?\nMK: I think that&amp;#39;s the preppy side in the character, but I think there&amp;#39;s a little overlap. Personally, my day-to-day life because I&amp;#39;m a comedy writer, I just wear different versions of gray, black, and white from Vince and Helmut Lang. That&amp;#39;s what I wear because it&amp;#39;s so easy, you can put things on it and it works anywhere. But when I do make an effort it&amp;#39;s sometimes layered preppy sweaters over button downs or whatever. Plaids, really good tartan plaids, Mindy Lahiri would wear.\nPinterestFacebookGlamour: Of course, it wouldn&amp;#39;t be fall without lots of layering...\nMK: Now we have a lot of guest guys on the show&amp;#8212;like Ben Feldman&amp;#39;s character where he played an arts and culture writer for a village magazine, and he&amp;#39;s super fashiony, but fashiony for men is basically 15 layers of clothing: button downs, then a thin sweater under a vest under a corduroy jacket under a parka vest. The poor guy. It&amp;#39;s good thing he&amp;#39;s thin. That&amp;#39;s how they style them in J.Crew look books. It&amp;#39;s a certain kind of hell to be shooting in that kind of heat when you&amp;#39;re shooting the November episode.\nPinterestFacebookGlamour: What about leather?\nMK: Colored leather is my favorite. To me, there&amp;#39;s nothing more fun than wearing a cobalt blue leather skirt or a fuchsia leather jacket. I&amp;#39;m too shy to pull it off, but I see that a lot in fall on Mindy Lahiri.\nWho would be your dream guest star on The Mindy Project?"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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