'There are Indian nerds. It shouldn't be a surprise to people.'
"These are really intense fans, you know — cartoon, comic book fans, those are huge fans," she said."And especially [for] a legacy show like this."
"Then it was announced about a month ago that the Velma character would be reimagined as South Asian," Mindy continued."And people were not happy.""There was a lot of, like, 'So not Velma!'" she recalled."Those kind of tweets. 'Not the classic Velma that I'm always thinking about!'""First of all," Mindy said."I didn't know that she elicited such strong reactions in either direction.
"She's such a great character. She's so smart," she went on."And I just couldn't understand how people couldn't imagine a really smart, nerdy girl with terrible eyesight, and who loved to solve mysteries, could be Indian."Mindy made sure to say the critics were just"a small percentage of people," but did admit that the conversation encouraged her to"be careful" with the character of Velma.
This isn't the first time Mindy has responded to critics of her casting — in fact, back in February, she
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