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Kaling and Poehler Describe Offensive International Press Junkets at Cannes
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Mindy Kaling
"I remember this distinctly, and maybe this is offensive, that we would be doing an international junket, and unlike an American junket, it would be like, the questions would be like, I don't know, maybe because of, I don't know, culturally, it was just a— Ruder, let's just say it. Why are you— You are so fat. You're smiling, but your face is not nice to look at. Your face is not nice. Why do you think that people like to look at your face? In America, a fat and smiling woman 'Can be star?'"
Recalling their 2015 Cannes Film Festival press tour for Inside Out, Kaling and Poehler described shockingly rude questions from European journalists about their weight and appearance. Kaling said international press would ask questions like why a fat woman could be a star in America, contrasting sharply with more polite American press junkets. Both actresses admitted they never challenged these offensive questions at the time.
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