John McEnroe Is Mindy Kaling’s Voice of Teen Angst. Seriously.

Kaling, the daughter of Indian immigrants, has described the Indian love of tennis as an “English Anglophile kind of thing.” In a statement issued through Netflix, Lang Fisher, the show’s executive producer, said that once the creators decided that Devi, the lead character played by Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, was going to have both an inner monologue and a McEnroe-like temper, they figured they might as well see if McEnroe was up for doing the narration.

Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/26/sports/john-mcenroe-never-have-i-ever.html