Mindy Kaling Recalls Confronting Man Who Broke Into B.J. Novak’s Car

“We go back to the car and the guy that we had talked to by the meter had gotten into B.J.’s car, was sitting in the driver’s seat and had B.J.’s laptop open and was on B.J.’s laptop,” Kaling said, “which is so strange—he didn’t try to steal his stuff.”

The actress said she and the Vengeance director decided to confront the man, sharing that she went to the driver’s side and made sure the door was kept closed. “My sense of my sense of justice was greater than my sense of wanting to live,” she said. “Then B.J. went to their side, and was like, ‘What did you take?’ The guy kept looking over at the door to try to get out. I was sitting there like, ‘You’re not going anywhere.’ Finally, B.J. got his laptop back and all of his stuff and he nodded to me, like, ‘You can open the door and let him out.'”

She added that when the guy exited the car, he told them, “You guys should be careful. Anybody could just get into your car.”