See Mindy Transforming Into a Handsome White Man on 'The Mindy Project'
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The romantic comedy series will offer a huge twist in the March 14 episode when Dr. Mindy Lahiri (Mindy Kaling) wakes up from her sleep in a white man's body.

AceShowbiz - "The Mindy Project" will be back giving us a fantasy twist which will unveil a new side of Dr. Mindy Lahiri (Mindy Kaling). The series already generated buzz when exec producers Kaling and Matt Warburton briefly mentioned that Mindy Lahiri would be becoming a white man in season 5.

And the episode is finally coming as photos of Hansen portraying white-man version of Dr. Mindy Lahiri have been unearthed via Entertainment Weekly. According to the site, in the March 14 episode titled "Mindy Lahiri Is a White Man", "an unfair promotion at work finds Mindy falling asleep at the end of the day, wishing things might be different-and when she wakes up, they absolutely are, as Mindy has become a handsome young white man...privilege and all."

Warburton said of the episode, "It's a little more [political] than we normally would get. I think it's interesting because it's tackling gender and race simultaneously." He continued, "We could have isolated those, but we decided to do it all at once. It's once of our more political episodes, for sure."

In November, the show cast Ryan Hansen ("Veronica Mars", "Party Down") as Dr. Michael Lancaster, a white doctor which Mindy transforms into after waking up from her sleep. Kaling teased the idea of the race-and-gender-flip back at Hulu's press day during the Television Critics' Association press tour in August.

She said, "We're pitching an episode called, 'If I Was Born a White Man'. I love the idea that something happens to Mindy that is really sexist, and then she wakes up the next morning as a white man." She further shared, "It seems really interesting and fun and kind of weird wish fulfillment to see how differently she would be treated."

"The Mindy Project" airs Tuesdays on Hulu.

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