Mindy Kaling and BJ Novak’s Inseparable Friendship: A Timeline

“Soup snakes” for all times! Mindy Kaling and B.J. Novak have some of the enviable friendships in Hollywood — and their bond retains getting stronger via the years.

The comedians met whereas writing for The Office within the early 2000s, and immediately felt a connection that was mirrored of their characters, Kelly Kapoor and Ryan Howard. “We grew to become mates after we had been nonetheless tremendous younger, and in addition as a result of we had been working generally 16-hour days at The Workplace, and we did it for eight years,” Kaling recalled of her friendship during an appearance at BookCon in 2015. “So it was like going to varsity twice collectively.”

Whereas the pair briefly sparked up a romance in the course of the early years of the NBC comedy, they rapidly realized they had been destined to remain platonic. Regardless of years of insisting that they’re just friends, they’ve continually been adopted by questions concerning the standing of their relationship.

“At any time when we date anybody else, I feel there’s a interval the place the particular person could be very skeptical of our friendship,” Novak defined throughout a 2013 interview with Entertainment Weekly. “‘Everybody appears to suppose you two is perhaps a pair, and I don’t imply to get in the way in which. Are you positive you’re not courting? Are you positive you’re not going to finish up courting?’ It’s such a typical factor to have that platonic greatest pal that turns into a bit bizarre whenever you begin courting somebody.”

Although the romantic facet of their relationship didn’t final very lengthy, the 2 TV writers have remained nearly inseparable for over a decade. After welcoming her first little one, Katherine, in December 2017, Kaling admitted that she understood the confusion surrounding her soulmate-like reference to Novak.

“If I used to be on the skin taking a look at it, I might suppose the identical factor,” she advised Good Housekeeping in Could 2019. “However the reality is that B.J. is a lot extra like household now than a platonic pal. He’s the godfather to my daughter, he comes over, like, as soon as per week. Generally he’ll come over simply to hang around along with her.”

After taking part in such main roles in one another’s lives for therefore lengthy, Kaling can’t image her future with out the Inglourious Basterds actor.

“However whenever you’ve identified somebody for so long as I’ve identified him — the time that we met one another, which was like 24,” she advised the publication. “Now, we’re each virtually 40. It’s such a very long time that he truly is just a part of my family.”

Scroll right down to relive the previous costars’ unbreakable bond via the years!