“This was an incredible opportunity to see if I could bring some humor and something different to what I normally do and what people were expecting for a narrator,” says McEnroe. Kaling and McEnroe met in a Vanity Fair Oscar Party meet cute, where the “Late Night” producer pitched the tennis great, whom she’d grown up watching, on the idea of narrating her new Netflix series. Though the seven-time Grand Slam champion has transitioned into a commentating career for ESPN and BBC in recent years, his volatile rep rendered him the perfect spiritual match for “Never Have I Ever’s” hot-headed protagonist Devi - a pairing only the show’s co-creator Mindy Kaling, whom McEnroe affectionately calls “The Boss,” could have dreamed up. The 61-year-old’s explosive temper on the court brought him notoriety at the height of his career in the late 1970s and 1980s. I felt lucky to be able to do a show about an Indian nerd who’s also badly behaved, to show that, because I’m deeply familiar with. “Our show is about a Tamil Indian girl, and typically they’re South Indians and they’re dark-skinned. Kaling loved writing a show and a character that so deeply resembled her.Īlthough the show is fiction, Kaling explained in an interview with Variety how she used experiences from other first generation Indian-American teenagers to shape the main character’s story. ‘My parents were big tennis fans and they watched you.’” That clearly planted a seed in the writer’s mind, as she not only made McEnroe play the role of omniscient bystander in the story, but also featured him in a cameo at the season finale. “I hear things at times where someone will come up to me, and Mindy was sort of the same way. In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, tennis legend (and narrator!) John McEnroe revealed a very interesting reason for his involvement in the series. Kaling’s father is a huge fan of the show’s narrator, John McEnroe. In real life, Kaling lost her mother to a battle with pancreatic cancer in 2012, when she was already an adult. There was one twist that she implemented, which was that in the show, Devi loses her father suddenly (a hard-hitting moment that comes early in the first season). Like the young teenager in the show, Kaling grew up Indian-American (specifically Indian Tamil), and had a doctor for a mother. Never Have I Ever's main character, Devi, has a lot in common with Kaling.Īs co-creator and a co-writer for the series, it’s clear that Kaling injected some of her own personal details into the backstory of her lead character, Devi. And if you were wondering just what they are-well, we've got you covered. Throughout the show, there are hidden gems exploring her culture and ways of thinking when attempting to figure out her identity as an Indian woman. While the show is clearly fictional, there are elements alluding to the childhood of the delightfully cheesy sitcom's co-creator/co-writer: The Office star Mindy Kaling. With storylines focusing on the ups and downs of friendships, first loves, and all-around teenage angst, the show is pressing all the right buttons for anyone still missing the glory days of Malcolm In The Middle. Never Have I Evercenters on an Indian-American girl trying to navigate millennial life while also coping with a massive tragedy. This story contains spoilers from the first season of Never Have I Ever. The show features elements of Mindy Kaling's personal life.The show explores the trials and errors of a young Indian-American girl who has to balance being a teenager and a personal tragedy. Never Have I Ever is one of Netflix's newest hit sitcoms.
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