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Naomi Osaka on When Julie—and Tennis—Keep Quiet

Naomi Osaka on When Julie—and Tennis—Keep Quiet

An interview with executive producer Naomi Osaka on the culture of silence in tennis: "You just hear things about people."

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Ben Rothenberg
Apr 17, 2025
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Naomi Osaka (Photo by Rob Keating), executive producer of Julie Keeps Quiet.

After a relative dearth in the genre, there’s been a proliferation of movies foregrounding tennis in recent years, with Battle of the Sexes (2017), King Richard (2021), and Challengers (2024) being the obvious standouts. Those buzzy, big-budget movies were joined in recent mont…

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