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Mindy Kaling has become a role model and a Hollywood powerhouse. |
With two successful TV series under her belt, numerous movies and with her own production company that had just signed a contract with Warner Bros. for future projects, one could say that Mindy Kaling has had a successful Hollywood career.
Because of her status as a Hollywood mover-and-shaker, she can safely tell the story in which she accuses the Television Academy of institutional bias.
A recent series of tweets from Mindy Kaling rand an in an interview with Elle Magazine, the Indian American actress reveals the Hollywood institutional bias allmost erased her contributions to one of television's most beloved sitcoms.
Kaling says that in the early days of The Office, she was subjected to discrimination from the Television Academy when the show was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series.
In a recent interview with Elle, Kaling said that Television Academy officials told her they were going to leave her name off of the show’s list of eligible contenders because there were too many producers listed.
“They made me, not any of the other producers, fill out a whole form and write an essay about all my contributions as a writer and a producer. I had to get letters from all the other male, white producers saying that I had contributed, when my actual record stood for itself,” she told Elle.
The Television Academy on Wednesay (Oct. 9) issued a statement to Variety:
A recent series of tweets from Mindy Kaling rand an in an interview with Elle Magazine, the Indian American actress reveals the Hollywood institutional bias allmost erased her contributions to one of television's most beloved sitcoms.
Kaling says that in the early days of The Office, she was subjected to discrimination from the Television Academy when the show was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series.
In a recent interview with Elle, Kaling said that Television Academy officials told her they were going to leave her name off of the show’s list of eligible contenders because there were too many producers listed.
“They made me, not any of the other producers, fill out a whole form and write an essay about all my contributions as a writer and a producer. I had to get letters from all the other male, white producers saying that I had contributed, when my actual record stood for itself,” she told Elle.
The Television Academy on Wednesay (Oct. 9) issued a statement to Variety:
No one person was singled out. There was an increasing concern years ago regarding the number of performers and writers seeking producer credits. At the time the Producers Guild worked with the Television Academy to correctly vet producer eligibility. Every performer/producer and writer/producer was asked to justify their producer credits. We no longer require this justification from performer/producers and writer/producers, but we do continue to vet consulting producer credits with the PGA to ensure those credited are actually functioning in the role as a producer.
Later Wednesday, Kaling addressed the Academy’s response in a tweet.
“Respectfully, the Academy’s statement doesn’t make any sense. I *was* singled out. There were other Office writer-performer-producers who were NOT cut from the list. Just me. The most junior person, and woman of color. Easiest to dismiss. Just sayin'” Kaling said.
“I’ve never wanted to bring up that incident because The Office was one of the greatest creative experiences of my life, and who would want to have an adversarial relationship with the Academy, who has the ongoing power to enhance our careers with awards?” she continued in another tweet.
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