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Mindy Kaling: I Have No Feelings About Fifty Shades of Grey

But will the funny lady go see the much buzzed-about movie?

By Marc Malkin Feb 12, 2015 6:49 PMTags
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Fifty Shades of Grey may be breaking all kinds of advance ticket sale records, but it doesn't sound like Mindy Kaling will be running to a theater anytime soon to see the movie.

"I have no feelings about Fifty Shades of Grey," the Mindy Project star told me at Savannah College of Art and Design's aTVfest television festival in Atlanta.

She and her costar Ike Barinholtz joked that they planned on seeing the film together on Valentine's Day. "I told my wife that we're going to see it platonically," Barinholtz said.

"We want to support Fifty Shades so they keep making erotic movies," Kaling added.

Barinholtz said. "We're big fans of erotica—not pornography, but erotica."

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And then the two joked about Kaling having a Fifty Shades, um, relationship with Microsoft magnate Bill Gates.

"I thought I'd sue them for plagiarism because I had an erotic affair with a billionaire once," Kaling said. "I was like, 'This is too similar to what I went through.'"

Speaking of Valentine's Day, have you seen Kaling's hilarious video in which she and her television baby daddy Chris Messina act out seven steps to achieving the perfect V-Day?

Our favorite? The two taking a very awkward (and somewhat painful) bubble bath.

"Ow, your knee's in my butt check," Messina whines.

"Well," Kaling says, "you just elbowed me in the breast."

Have a great Valentine's Day, everyone.