RadioTimes.com<\/a> spoke exclusively to Lia ahead of launch about her interactions with Kyrgios during filming for the show.<\/p>\nShe said: \u201cNick Kyrgios is probably a different guy on court than he is off court. That was certainly our experience. All we can show is what we experienced and what we saw first-hand.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe is someone that is going to be divisive. Even people in our team don\u2019t necessarily agree!<\/p>\n
\u201cFor those of us that spent time with Nick, he\u2019s a complex, deep, interesting character. He was always respectful to us and the team.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was really important to us, and you\u2019ll see this in the second half coming out in June, that we first show the headlines that people know, but then we go deeper and we tell a story.<\/p>\n
\u201cHopefully that does who he really is justice. In terms of filming, he was great to work with.\u201d<\/p>
Lia and the team struck gold by following Kyrgios on home soil at the Australian Open in 2022 as he astonishingly went on to win the doubles tournament alongside best mate Thanasi Kokkinakis.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe learned as we went along how to film it and then doing justice to the stories,\u201d she explained. \u201cYou have to get a little bit lucky. We follow people who we think are going to be interesting.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was [the producer\u2019s] idea to follow Nick Kyrgios, but we had no idea that he would win the doubles. Until you know what\u2019s going to happen, you just have to try and plan what\u2019s not impossible to plan for.\u201d<\/p>