{"id":307065,"date":"2021-07-24T00:03:13","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T21:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/mindy-kaling-responds-to-velma-racebending-backlash\/"},"modified":"2021-07-24T00:03:13","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T21:03:13","slug":"mindy-kaling-responds-to-velma-racebending-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/mindy-kaling-responds-to-velma-racebending-backlash\/","title":{"rendered":"#Mindy Kaling Responds to Velma Racebending Backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Mindy Kaling Responds to Velma Racebending Backlash<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\nMindy Kaling has addressed the controversy surrounding Velma<\/em><\/strong>, her upcoming Scooby-Doo<\/em> reboot that reimagines Velma Dinkley as a South Asian mystery solver. In addition to executive producing the series<\/a> with Charlie Grandy, Howard Klein, and Sam Register, Kaling will voice the new Velma. The fan response was largely positive to Kaling’s casting, though there were some Scooby-Doo<\/em> fans crying foul over the character’s reimagined ethnicity.<\/p>\n

This week on Late Night with Seth Meyers<\/em>, Mindy Kaling<\/em><\/strong> app<\/a>eared as a special guest to help promote the release of Monsters at Work<\/em> on Disney+. As it’s well known that Kaling is developing Velma<\/em>, Myers asked her about the project. Kaling then opened up about the reactions she saw from people on both sides of the spectrum when the news<\/a> became public that her version of Velma Dinkley would be South Asian.
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