Chris Messina reportedly won't be a regular on the next season of 'The Mindy Project'
Sorry Mindy & Danny 'shippers: Looks like Chris Messina is not going to be a series regular on The Mindy Project next season.
The actor -- who plays baby daddy/on again off again romantic interest Danny Castellano -- will instead appear on the show as a recurring guest star on the Hulu show, TVLine reported.
Hulu declined to comment.
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To Mindy Project viewers, the news of a diminished role for Danny may not come as a complete surprise. Messina's character has appeared sporadically on the series since Mindy and Danny's engagement was called off. He is no longer a doctor at their practice, and only really appears when Mindy drops off their son Leo.
In a May interview with Glamour, Messina even addressed not being on the show as much.
"Danny will always be cemented in this show," he said. "I love playing him, and I trust that the writers will take his story line wherever they think best serves the show."
Good thing viewers still have Dr. Jody Kimball-Kinney (Garret Dillahunt) and his sister, the hilarious nurse Colette Kimball-Kinney (Fortune Feimster), around.
In an interview with E! on Thursday, Kaling addressed the reports.
"When people hear that, I think that they sometimes get worried that they're not going to see him, but he was in these past 13 episodes very frequently and they share a child, so I don't want to scare people off about him not being in the show because the character is built into the fabric of the show, especially as the father of Mindy's child," Kaling told E! News. "People will not miss Danny because he's going to be there. We would never do that to the audience, so people don't have to worry about it."
Reporter's note: This post has been updated to include new comments from Kaling.
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