John McEnroe's road to Netflix began at Vanity Fair’s 2019 Oscar party
, to be a precocious, first-generation Indian-American teenage girl. Devi is a smart but short-tempered 15-year-old who lives with her demanding dermatologist mother, Nalini , and is desperate to “rebrand” herself and her equally nerdy best friends, Fabiola , a robotics whiz, and Eleanor , a theater geek.
were quarantining with two of their children in Malibu. “At the time it was like, ‘What? Okay, sounds like something that would be different,’” he recalled. McEnroe thinks Kaling came up with the idea because her parents—like Devi’s deceased father, Mohan —were fans of his, though he and Kaling never discussed that. He ultimately signed on because the idea seemed “cool,” and would work “because my voice is sort of unique.
The tennis analyst’s greatest challenge was getting the play-by-play pacing and timing right, so it would feel like he was both part of the action and an impartial observer, someone both serious and sarcastic. “You don’t want to keep blowing it,” he said of the pressure he felt to knock out winners. With McEnroe’s narrator speaking as an omniscient observer, the show’s jokes often pack an extra punch. For example: when Devi blows up at Fabiola for what she sees as a betrayal, McEnroe explains how her behavior is a “logical response” to “why we hotheads fly off the handle.
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