Mindy Kaling On Diverse 'Four Weddings and a Funeral' Cast: "We're Not Going to Have Anyone Be Hugh Grant" | In Studio - video Dailymotion

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"We decided we're not gonna have anyone who's gonna be Hugh Grant," Kaling explained to The Hollywood Reporter. "That was very of its time and Hugh Grant is Hugh Grant because of it, so we thought what were like the new icons?"

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00:00What did you hope to accomplish with your super diverse cast?

00:04We decided we're not going to have anyone who's going to be Hugh Grant.

00:07We're not going to try to find a guy who is like a floppy-haired, white, incredibly compelling...

00:12Bumbling, kind of.

00:13No one could do that.

00:14And to be honest, that was very of its time, and Hugh Grant is Hugh Grant because of it.

00:18So we thought, what were the new icons, what are the kind of things that we would love

00:21to see?

00:22You know, I'm Indian, Tracy, you're like in an interracial marriage.

00:26Yes.

00:27I said relationship, but it's a full marriage.

00:28No, we're married.

00:29You're married.

00:30Stop saying that.

00:31But are the people we surround ourselves with, don't necessarily look like what's reflected

00:35in a lot of TV shows and our friendships.

00:37So we wanted to do something, we wanted the cast to, we definitely wanted an African American

00:42woman to be the star, and we wanted a British Pakistani man to be the male lead.

00:46And that felt different and worth doing.

00:48Yeah.

00:49Yeah.

00:50And that felt different.

00:52Yeah.

01:01Yeah.

01:02Yeah.

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