Meet the voice actors behind the Mueller report audiobooks — ‘It was an honor, it was a shock’
The professional narrators behind two 19-hour Mueller report audiobooks faced the tightest turnaround of their professional lives — and made their own small dent on history in the whirlwind process.
To expedite the process, voice actors recorded the audio simultaneously in a marathon session starting the day of the report’s release. Simon & Schuster began gauging its professional narrators’ availability months ago, according to narrators who worked on the audiobook, but didn’t reveal to them the nature of the project until the week of the report’s release.
“It was an honor, it was a shock,” added Cynthia Farrell, 46, a singer and narrator who lives in lower Manhattan. “I just felt so privileged.” The narrators remained on standby during a final quality-assurance process. It was all-hands on deck. The Simon & Schuster Audio team worked around the clock and finished by 2 a.m. Saturday, Shokoff said. “It was intense and it was hard, but it was also manageable,” added 36-year-old narrator Jayme Mattler, of Bushwick, crediting the publisher for a well-organized execution.
While Bevine was originally slated to narrate the entirety of the report, the report turned out to be more voluminous than expected — so Audible roped in actor Marc Vietor to read the second of two volumes and actor Mark Boyett to read chapter headings and the appendix. Robin Miles, the award-winning voice actor of audiobooks including a Michelle Obama biography and the young-reader adaptation of Kamala Harris’s forthcoming memoir, tackled about 50 pages that contained case-law citations.
“My favorite part was that I got to quote the President saying ‘f***,’” Mattler said. “Who gets to quote a president saying that? I felt very special and lucky.” Narrators told MarketWatch they avoided editorializing, and didn’t use character voices for quotes or otherwise infuse their recordings with emotion. Mattler, echoing her colleagues, said she “played the whole thing straight,” even the F-bomb. “It was important for any opinion that I had not to shine through — this isn’t an opinion piece,” she said. “Things could have been said very calmly, and it’s not my place to amplify an emotional state in a book like this.
SAG-AFTRA’s 2019 Sound Recordings Code sets a $210.50 minimum standard rate for narrators per finished hour of recording. But while some companies may pay union members the Sound Recordings Code rate for audiobook work, such work is typically done under separate audiobook agreements, SAG-AFTRA’s website says. “I will tell you this: I don’t work at minimum anymore,” said Miles, a SAG-AFTRA member.
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