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"At the beginning of the week, an entire TCA session with Fox chairman and CEO Peter Rice went by without anyone asking about Rice&amp;#x27;s thoughts on The Mindy Project (former Fox CEO Kevin Reilly, who recently departed, was a big advocate of the sitcom). As far as I was concerned, Rice wasn&amp;#x27;t going to get out of the Beverly Hilton ballroom without me finding out his thoughts on our beloved sitcom. After all, I (and by I, I mean all of us) needed some reassurance. &amp;quot;I love The Mindy Project,&amp;quot; he revealed. [Whew!] &amp;quot;I think it&amp;amp;#8217;s really funny and smart. I think [Mindy&amp;#x27;s] a great showrunner. I hope that it continues to be written at the quality that it does, and I hope that it finds an audience. We have tried to construct a night now where we think it can bring a little bit more compatible flow through it, so my hopes are very high. I think it&amp;amp;#8217;s a terrific show.&amp;quot; But what exactly does that mean? It means that Mindy and Co. are going to continue doing their part in writing spectacular scripts and creating hilarious, heartwarming television. The real work comes from you guys. You have to watch this season. Get your friends to watch, even your parents. Tell everyone what we&amp;#x27;ve known for a long time now: This is one of the best sitcoms currently on the air. Peter Rice is behind it, Fox and NBCUniversal love it, but if there&amp;#x27;s going to be an increased episode order for season three (currently at 15), then ratings need to tick upward. It&amp;#x27;s that simple. At the Fox TCA All-Star Party later that evening, I joined the genius mastermind behind our favorite show (that would be Mindy Kaling in case you&amp;#x27;re living under a rock) for some long overdue girl talk to chat Vegas, Ike Barinholtz&amp;#x27;s hot new bod, and what&amp;#x27;s in store for Danny and Mindy. By the way, did you hear? Cheers vet Rhea Perlman is going to recur this season as Danny&amp;#x27;s mom! If you thought season two was good, get ready for this next season to blow your socks off (or whatever&amp;#x27;s the equivalent of a Chris Messina butt grab). Mindy met up with the equally gorgeous Bela Bajaria, who is Universal TV&amp;#x27;s executive vice president, at the TCAs this week. Glamour: Last night I had a dream that I watched the season premiere of The Mindy Project, and I was actually in it. You and I were fighting over Danny. I woke up and was like, &amp;quot;What the hell just happened?!&amp;quot; Mindy Kaling: You and I were fighting over Danny? Oh my gosh, I love that! Glamour: But it was awful because knowing you two so well, I felt like I was breaking girl code! I&amp;amp;#8217;m like, &amp;quot;No, no! She belongs with Danny!&amp;quot; But I&amp;amp;#8217;m only human&amp;amp;#133;it was nice. Haha. Mindy: Was it good? I want to steal ideas! Glamour: You see, this is what happens when you attend the TCAs for 10 days straight. You start to lose your mind. [Laughs] Glamour: On to more important matters: your hair. You got the cutest bob a couple months ago, but you&amp;amp;#8217;ve been wearing extensions lately. Will you keep them in for season three? Mindy: The overwhelming feeling from my writing staff, from actors on my show, from my manager, Howard, is that they like my long hair. And I do like it myself too. I&amp;amp;#8217;m like any girl that likes to have a bob. I would love to even rock a pixie cut, but no one wants to see that! Glamour: By the way, I love your earrings. Mindy: Sal [Perez, costume designer on The Mindy Project] found them, so I took them for the night. These are the earrings that were actually in the Christmas episode when [Chris] Messina does the dance. Everyone talks about the dance, but I couldn&amp;amp;#8217;t keep my eyes off of the earrings! Glamour: That is amazing. They are truly gorgeous. Glamour: Happy belated birthday, by the way! I was following your Instagram account, and talk about the best boss ever, because you took your entire writing staff to Las Vegas. Mindy: I did, but the studio chipped in too, which was really nice. We stayed for two nights, and yeah, I took them to Vegas for a writers&amp;#x27; retreat. It was so much fun! We actually got a ton of work done. From 11 A.M. to 5 P.M., it&amp;amp;#8217;s too hot to be outside, so my room was really big and we set up boards and made it the common area and wrote. Glamour: Did the guys on your writing staff bring their wives? Mindy: No. That&amp;amp;#8217;s how cool the wives are! Dave Stassen&amp;amp;#8217;s wife was like, &amp;quot;Go have fun!&amp;quot; Maybe they were sick of them anyway, but they were like, &amp;quot;Go, and we&amp;amp;#8217;ll take care of the kids!&amp;quot; [Laughs] It was so much fun. Glamour: So what are the chances we&amp;amp;#8217;re going to get a &amp;quot;Danny and Mindy Go to Vegas&amp;quot; episode? Mindy: I would die to do one! Vegas is my kind of city. Who knows? We&amp;amp;#8217;re hoping for more episodes, so hopefully [Fox&amp;#x27;s] Dana Walden, Gary Newman, and Peter Rice will want to add more. Glamour: I&amp;amp;#8217;m getting tweets from fans asking me if there&amp;amp;#8217;s a chance that you&amp;amp;#8217;ll get more than 15 episodes this season. Is there really a chance? Mindy: I obviously would love to do a full season or even a couple more. I think we&amp;amp;#8217;ll know in October when the show airs. I feel confident that we&amp;amp;#8217;ll get more, just because we have more stories to tell. I hope the fans come out and [really support us]. Glamour: I think it&amp;amp;#8217;s safe to say that behalf of all of us at Glamour, we want a full season. As for the premiere though, Chris Messina was telling me he&amp;amp;#8217;ll be in a G-string. I need more details. Mindy: OK, so the G-string is a prop that we&amp;amp;#8217;re giving him. It&amp;amp;#8217;s a plot point. Chris will have his shirt off, but I&amp;amp;#8217;m not going to put him in a G-string. He&amp;amp;#8217;s definitely in a state of undress. Chris has a lot to do in the first episode. Last year&amp;amp;#8217;s premiere was half set in Haiti, Mindy was engaged, and there was a lot of stuff going on. This premiere is really different. People kept saying, &amp;quot;We want to see more of Mindy and Danny. What is it really like when they start dating? The first time they have sex?&amp;quot; So all those questions get answered. We didn&amp;amp;#8217;t need anything else. [Ed. note: In case you missed it, here&amp;#x27;s Chris Messina talking to us about being in &amp;quot;various states of undress!&amp;quot;] Glamour: Is there going to be a time jump from the scene at the Empire State Building or will we pick up right where we left off? Mindy: The cold open takes place the same night as the finale and then we jump forward. Glamour: How many times have you re-watched the finale now? Because if that was me, I think I&amp;amp;#8217;d have it on a loop. Mindy: Not many, only because I spent so much editing it. I saw it about 25 times during that process. I still go back to the music and Chris running through the streets of New York, and it was one of the most magical things ever. Glamour: In seven years, when The Mindy Project has completed its 10-year run, you need to write all the romantic comedies. Not just some&amp;amp;#8212;all. Mindy: [Laughs] Thank you for saying that. It is so nice of you. I love writing for [people] like Glenn Howerton [Cliff], Anders Holm [Casey], and people that aren&amp;amp;#8217;t normally seen that way. If Anders is playing Anne Hathaway&amp;amp;#8217;s husband in a new Nancy Meyers movie&amp;amp;#8212;and I don&amp;amp;#8217;t take credit for that at all, but Nancy Meyers is a huge fan of the show&amp;amp;#8212;that to me feels like, &amp;quot;Wow, the power of what I&amp;amp;#8217;m doing is reaching people.&amp;quot; I love that about the show. Glamour: Jeremy, Morgan, Peter... are we going to see their story lines develop more? Mindy: Yes. So even though Danny and Mindy are a couple, I still want to show characters dating. What will be a fun experiment is showing that in a lot of ways, Peter is the new Mindy. We learned to love Mindy through all of her dating experiences, so Peter is going to be the one who [now goes through that]. And I&amp;amp;#8217;m really excited about using female guest stars to date Peter until he becomes a better person who can actually handle a relationship. And Pally is very good at that stuff. We will see more of Jeremy&amp;amp;#8217;s personal and private life too. We&amp;amp;#8217;re going to see him and Peter at odds. And now that Ike [Barinholtz] has a sick body, I don&amp;amp;#8217;t know what to do with him anymore! [Ed. note: Ike has been on the East Coast this summer filming the new Amy Poehler-Tina Fey comedy, The Nest]. Every day he sends me a photo of his eight-pack! He&amp;amp;#8217;s hot! Glamour: Morgan and Tamra. Will they be a full-fledged item this season? Mindy: I always think of them as Kelly and Ryan on The Office, like on-and-off again every episode, and you don&amp;amp;#8217;t know what they&amp;amp;#8217;re doing. People love them, I love them together, and I love their characters. Glamour: Will Ike be back to shoot the first episode, which is July 31, I believe? Mindy: Yes, he gets back that day, so he&amp;amp;#8217;ll be there. Glamour: We did a piece earlier this month about how you&amp;amp;#8217;d love&amp;amp;#8212;just once&amp;amp;#8212;for the opening credits to be animated. What&amp;amp;#8217;s the word on that from Fox and NBC Universal? I want the artist to do animated credits for me, and I don&amp;amp;#8217;t even have a show! Mindy: First of all, I wholeheartedly agree and love that you&amp;amp;#8217;re saying that! I think it would be so fun for an episode. Glamour: Completely! Troop Beverly Hills had animated credits, so did The Nanny. I loved that! The illustrations you showed were the most adorable things ever. Mindy: Yep! I love it too. Maybe hearing that you love that, I&amp;amp;#8217;ll float it with Fox and see what they say. Even just for one episode, it would be so fun. Glamour: Lastly, the episode title for the premiere is &amp;quot;We&amp;amp;#8217;re a Couple Now, Bitches.&amp;quot; Can we expect Danny and Mindy to last this time or will they be facing major adversity in their relationship? Mindy: I&amp;amp;#8217;m not interested in them not dating. He&amp;amp;#8217;s 40, she&amp;amp;#8217;s 34. They had to work so hard to get to the point that they&amp;amp;#8217;re at now, and I want to see two people together working hard to make it work than breaking up. That&amp;amp;#8217;s not what I&amp;amp;#8217;m interested in right now. The Mindy Project returns on Tuesday, September 16, on Fox. Major news, right? What are you most excited about heading into season three?"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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