Good Hang with Amy Poehler

Snapshot · Good Hang with Amy Poehler

Mindy Kaling

Explore episode Jun 30, 2026

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Cannes, Body Image, and the Rude Questions You Just Laugh Through

At 44:21 · chapter starts 42:10

The Cannes junket is one of the episode's richest storytelling sequences. Both women remember it as simultaneously glamorous and brutal: always in the sun, always sweating through their clothes, always answering questions that would never be asked in an American context. The international press, Mindy recalls, tended toward the startlingly direct — wondering aloud how a fat, smiling woman could be a TV star, or whether Mindy was really a Hufflepuff who thought she was a Gryffindor. Amy and Mindy reenact the questions with escalating absurdity. Mindy then invokes a famous Javier Bardem interview clip where he pushed back against a rude journalist — and admits she was never able to do that. She just smiled and sat. The conversation segues into how culture around body image has shifted since then — but also hasn't.

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The Cannes Press Junket — When International Press Gets Rude

Mindy Kaling · Jun 30, 2026 Society & Culture

At the Cannes press junket for Inside Out, Amy and Mindy were asked, more or less directly, why a fat smiling woman should be a star and whether Mindy was really a Hufflepuff pretending to be a Gryffindor. Mindy's response: unlike Javier Bardem, she just laughed and sat there.

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Cannes press junket rude body-shaming questions

Mindy Kaling · Jun 30, 2026

At Cannes for Inside Out, Mindy and Amy faced international journalists who asked openly about their weight and looks — a stark contrast to the more careful framing of American press.

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