B.J. Novak Shares Secret to Decades-Long Friendship With Mindy Kaling | E! News
All right, we’re joined now by BJ Novak. Welcome. How you feeling tonight? Welcome. I’m just so happy to be out. We’re so happy to see you. I’m glad we all have our own mics. Like, it’s like we’re intimate but not too intimate. It’s cool. Absolutely. Yeah. Okay. So, it’s season 2. The show is so fun. Please tell us what can you tease. The the show is so um standalone and episodic that I got one of the most perfect scripts I had ever been sent. And it had nothing to do with anything else on the show. It was just this beautiful standalone episode. And there was a part that took me so long. I was driving somewhere with my friend Mindy Kalink. No big deal. And uh I told her last night about the show and I described my character and we got to the to the restaurant before I could finish. It’s such a complicated thing to explain and I think only Pokerface could could pull off something like that. So I can’t even describe my role because it’s so complicated. But it was really really cool and I think the cast is so extraordinary. the main cast, the guest cast, the directors. Tony Toast is incredible as a showrunner. So, um I guess I’ve talked for a long time now. We were literally chomping at the bits. I’m like, which direction do we go in? But I guess I really want to know, did Mindy help you run lines for your role in this show? No, but there were a lot of lines. It was like a big long chewy monologue and a half and I that’s my favorite thing. I don’t play with others. Well, it’s just like give me a long line monologue and then I’m out the door. you were not too far from here with her not that long ago where she got her star on the Walk of Fame. Yeah. You know, what what is it about this friendship that you know makes it work as well as it does for you guys? Uh I don’t know how she feels. I feel she is just so funny and interesting that I’ll talk to her as long as she’ll talk to me. I like that. That’s a good a good thing to have with a friend. I think so, too. Yeah. She’s not my only friend like that. I have some good friends, but she is she is way up there. Well, this month actually marks the 20. Shout out to all my friends. To all the friends. It’s actually the 20th cast of friends. The office premiere. I mean, you guys have been on our screens forever and will like stay with us. That show is just so iconic. Is it weird that people want Yeah. Watch your back, poker face. Yeah. Watch your back, poker face. Let’s see how long. Yeah. Um, is it crazy that so many people know every line that you’ve ever said on the office? Constantly people are quoting things to me that I had no idea I had ever said. um on on that show. So, I think it’s really special, you know, writing. I was in the writer room so much in that show that we had so many versions of everything and I wouldn’t even keep track of what ended up in the final episode often. So, when people quote lines to me, I’m like, “Oh, that made it.” You know, that improv was in. So, so it’s it’s like watching it again in a new way. So cool. That’s very cool. Congratulations. It’s your episode is great. Your role in it is great. I feel great about it. I’m I’m glad you do, too. Thanks, [Music]
While speaking exclusively with E! News at the ‘Poker Face’ season two premiere, B.J. Novak details his special friendship with Mindy Kaling.
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