One of the biggest surprises of Mindy Kaling and Lang Fisher’s “Never Have I Ever” is the voice of legendary tennis player John McEnroe, who narrates the coming-of-age series.
But no matter how surprised you were to hear his voice on the show, the tennis star was even more surprised to be asked to narrate it in the first place.“Who would’ve thought that would be the sort of psychologist or uncle or advisor to an 18- or 17-year-old Indian American girl going through high school,” McEnroe said in a recent interview with Entertainment Tonight.
“So I got to credit Mindy Kaling.”The decision to cast McEnroe in her semi-autobiographical was a nostalgic one for Kaling, who grew up in a tennis-loving household.“It turned out her father was a big tennis fan and must’ve talked about me a lot when she was growing up,” he said.
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