At the Warner Bros Discovery Upfront presentation this week, Mindy Kaling (The Office, Never Have I Ever) unveiled a first look at her upcoming Scooby-Doo spin-off series Velma. Kaling is executive producing and will voice the lead character.
“Hopefully you noticed my Velma is South Asian,” Kaling told the crowd (via Entertainment Weekly). “If people freak out about that, I don’t care.” To put that comment into greater context–during a July 2021 appearance on Late Night With Seth Meyers, Kaling told the host, “When it was announced that I was going to do the voice of Velma, people were very supportive and happy on TwitterCome from Sports betting site VPbet. And so I felt great… Then it was announced a month ago that the Velma character would be reimagined as South Asian. And people were not happy.”