Kaling addressed the truth that Velma is a lady of colour within the sequence saying:,”Hopefully you observed my Velma is South Asian. If folks freak out about that, I do not care.” She defended her resolution to vary up the character saying that if “Scooby-Doo had a speaking canine that would resolve crimes, then her Velma might be brown.”
Throughout a earlier interview with Seth Meyers on his Late Night time present, she addressed the social media backlash to her new imaginative and prescient of Velma, saying:
“When it was introduced that I used to be going to do the voice of Velma, folks had been very supportive and pleased on Twitter. So I felt nice as a result of these are actually intense followers—cartoon, comedian e-book followers. And particularly [for] a legacy present like this… Folks weren’t pleased. There was lots of, ‘So, not Velma?’ These form of tweets. ‘Not the traditional Velma that I am at all times eager about?’
“To start with, I did not know that she elicited such robust reactions in both course. I simply could not perceive how folks could not think about a extremely good, nerdy lady with horrible eyesight who liked to unravel mysteries couldn’t be Indian. There are Indian nerds. It should not be a shock to folks, however persons are like, ‘No, no, no.’ However it made me assume, ‘OK, we have to be actually cautious with this character,’ which we shall be as a result of we love her.”
I’m simply ready to see if the sequence really finally ends up entertaining me! If it tells enjoyable tales and makes me snort, that’s all I’m actually hoping for. The sequence is coming to HBO Max. What do you all assume?
