‘Running Point’s Mindy Kaling Is Jokingly Jealous As Co-Creator Ike Barinholtz Delights In Playing Cousin Benny – Contenders TV

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With Season 2 of Netflix‘s Running Point having come to a close, co-creators Mindy Kaling and Ike Barinholtz talked about the special pressures they personally feel creating an environment they want a chance to play in themselves.

“You really do feel, especially when you’re a writer/performer working behind the scenes, you’re like, I want to get in on that,” Kaling confessed during the show’s panel Sunday at Deadline’s Contenders TV.

“I was very jealous. They have an actor text chain and sometimes I see one of their phones, one will text the actor text chain and I’m very jealous I’m not on the actor text chain,” adds Barinholtz who received his first Emmy nomination for The Studio coinciding with production on the second season of Running Point. 

He did however get a chance to mingle on-camera with the Gordons and credits Mindy with the opportunity.“Mindy

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