Lake Bell’s First Audiobook Explores Her Obsession With the Human Voice (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comTodd Spangler NY Digital EditorLake Bell first explored the power of voice in her award-winning 2013 film about the voiceover industry, “In a World…,” which she wrote, directed and starred in.Now, nearly 10 years later, the actor-writer-director-producer further unpacks the fixation in “Inside Voice: My Obsession With How We Sound,” an audiobook set to be published by Malcom Gladwell’s Pushkin Industries on Nov.
1, 2022.“Inside Voice,” Bell’s first book project, will delve into her complicated opinions about voice — and “how this vital piece of our identity serves as an X-ray of our personal histories, exposures, vulnerabilities and conditioning,” according to Pushkin.“Without hyperbole, the subject of voice has been a lifelong passion, inspiring my work and life from every angle,” Bell said in a statement provided to Variety. “I’m so grateful to have Pushkin as a creative home and collaborator for this deeply personal project.” The five-hour audiobook will feature nearly 20 contributors with iconic voices including Drew Barrymore, Susie Essman, Tracey Ullman and Jeff Goldblum, as well as a range of experts like linguistics professors, dialect coaches, poets and voice actors.
Bell takes listeners through her own personal journey — covering how her own love of accents and dialects inspired her career as an actor — while also investigating how society treats people based on the way they speak.“Inside Voice” includes interactive exercises and games, spoken-word poetry, self-narrated personal stories from the likes of the legendary Pam Grier, outspoken transgender author and podcaster Samantha Allen, and a slew of impressionists including Bugs Bunny himself among other archival audio clips from film and TV.Bell’s acting.
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