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'

Published On
Aug 30, 2021

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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. 

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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. 

McEnroe Merch

Credits

Date
Aug 30, 2021
Client :
Squarespace
Chief Creative Officer :
David Lee
Creative Director :
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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