Mindy Kaling’s Secret to How She Scores Those Famous Guest Stars

The Mindy Project is known for having some of the greatest guest stars on TV — James Franco, Seth Rogen, Ed Helms and Bill Hader, to name just a few.

With Season 4 right around the corner, Yahoo TV sat down with Mindy to ask how she gets them to come on her show. “We get a lot of luck just writing parts for people that we have met or know personally,” she tells us, “and a lot of times we let people play things that they normally don’t get to play. And that’s why they think it’s fun.”

Guest stars in the fourth season include Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Garret Dillahunt and the hilarious Fortune Feimster.

Season 4 of The Mindy Project premieres Sept. 15 on Hulu.