Mindy has called “Four Weddings and a Funeral” “one of the first perfect romantic comedies.” And yet she wanted to update it to represent the world she lived in.

It’s such a joy to be part of an inclusive, diverse cast and tell their stories in a way that is quite lightly done. It’s not necessarily about the fact that they are of color or women or L.G.B.T.Q. or Muslim. It doesn’t focus on our differences, it focuses on our similarities. And that is really important in this time where people are so intent on being divided and spreading hate.

About “Game of Thrones”: Some people had a problem with the way Missandei was killed — beheaded in chains. What are your thoughts?

To be honest with you, I read every season going, They’re going to kill her this year. And they didn’t. So the fact that she got to where she did as the very kind, loyal, sweet soul that she was was kind of a miracle — because those people don’t tend to survive in “Game of Thrones.” And eventually that fate found her, too, but I was very proud of how strong and ferocious she was. She was dedicated to her queen, and in that very final moment she showed so much agency and ferocity in a way that we hadn’t necessarily seen from her.

And Daenerys’s plunge into extreme violence?

I think it made sense. They had seeded that for quite a long time — her sort of relentless brutality. She lost all of the people she loved and it was just too much. And I would have loved her to have not gone and killed everybody because I genuinely believe that Daenerys wanted to be the change that she wanted to see in the world. It was sad that she couldn’t do it. But I definitely felt like Missandei’s death was the straw that broke the camel’s back at the end of the day.

What do you make of the disgruntled fans and the petition going around?

I’ll be honest — I was disappointed that there was a petition. The idea that people were demanding things or even accusing the writers of being incompetent when they basically had you hooked for a whole decade of your life is ridiculous to me. I was left feeling hopeful, sort of like the beginnings of democracy in Westeros. Maybe I’m biased but I genuinely thought that the final season was a masterpiece.