John McEnroe goes from tennis legend to voice god in Squarespace campaign
Following his turn on Mindy Kaling's Netflix show 'Never Have I Ever,' push celebrates athlete's new 'career'
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In time for the U.S. Open, Squarespace drops a new campaign starring tennis legend John McEnroe. The brand, however, is not highlighting his skills on the court but in a completely unexpected arena—voice acting.
This year, McEnroe’s career took a surprising turn when Mindy Kaling cast him as the narrator of her Netflix show “Never Have I Ever.” The Squarespace campaign explores McEnroe’s pursuit of excellence in this new profession.
Created and produced in-house, it features a mockumentary that follows McEnroe diving into his new calling. The film features a cameo from Kaling and sees McEnroe in the recording booth, auditioning for a variety of Netflix V.O. roles, including that of Lady Whistledown of “Bridgerton,” narrator of a “Money Heist” trailer and voice of a puppet on “Waffles + Mochi.” There are even tryouts for the voice of a GPS system and kids’ audio book reader.
Once known as a hothead on the courts, he’s as much a firecracker behind a mic as he goes ballistic trying to achieve the perfect performance, including the proper intonation to the word “fungi” for a mushroom joke.
The campaign, created and produced in-house, continues on McEnroe’s Squarespace site, which features samples of his voice demos (don’t miss his nature doc performance and his rendition of Netflix’ audio mnemonic). There’s even an e-commerce page selling merch including t-shirts, hats and more.
Credits
- Date
- Aug 30, 2021
- Client :
- Squarespace
- Chief Creative Officer :
- David Lee
- Senior Art Director :
- Miche Sieg
- Senior Copywriter :
- Rose Chirillo
- Design Director :
- Lucia Orlandi
- Senior Designer :
- Jessica Hagg
- Designer :
- Wan Kang
- Motion Designer :
- Videl Torres
- Senior Design Technologist :
- Adam Hartwig
- Director of Creative Production :
- Sandra Nam
- Senior Producer :
- Rebecca Magner Patrick
- Business Affairs Manager :
- Kiersten Bergstrom
- Chief Marketing Officer :
- Kinjil Mathur
- Director Brand Strategy, Content & Partnerships :
- Kevin Nabipour
- Associate Director Partnerships :
- Natasha Ivankovitser
- Campaigns Lead :
- Olivia Cohen
- Production Company :
- Squarespace
- Director :
- Gui Borchert
- DOP :
- Brian Lannin
- Line Producer :
- Kim Santella
- In-house Shoot :
- Squarespace
- Photographer :
- Craig Reynolds
- Retoucher :
- Derek Kalisher
- Client / Partnership :
- Netflix
- Marketing Partnerships Lead :
- Kevin Simms
- Marketing Partnerships Creative :
- Matt Angrisani
- Marketing Partnerships Producer :
- Nick Feder
- Marketing Partnerships Strategy :
- Nabilah Jiwani
- Editorial :
- Cabin Edit
- Editor :
- Chan Hatcher
- Assistant Editor :
- Connie Chuang
- Managing Partner :
- Carr Schilling
- Executive Producer :
- Adam Becht
- Head of Production :
- Liz Lydecker
- Producer :
- Katy Lester
- VFX + Finishing :
- MPC
- Managing Director :
- Robert Owens
- Executive Producer :
- Karena Anderson
- Producer :
- Michael Heil
- Flame Lead :
- Rob Ufer
- Color :
- MPC
- Colorist :
- Kris Smale
- Senior Color Producer :
- Meghan Lang Bice
- Producer :
- Caitlin Forrest
- Music :
- Score A Score
- Mix :
- Lime
- Mixer :
- Matt Miller
- Executive Producer :
- Susie Boyajan
- Producer :
- Kayla Phungglan
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