GROSS: Why do you wish to create a string where in fact the primary character is a sophomore in senior school?
Had been that the turning point 12 months for your needs?
KALING: So the story of why we did the show ended up being a bit unromantic in that I became approached by Netflix, by an professional called Brooke Kessler, that has read both of my publications and adored the parts about once I ended up being a teen. And people are pretty sections that are short, like lots of comedy article writers, i do believe of my adolescence and youth as incredibly painfully embarrssing (laughter). But she liked those actions, and she had seen that I experienced maybe perhaps not dramatized them.
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