Actor Lake Bell: 'The Voice is a Roadmap of Your History'

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture, Film Interviews, Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Today, we sit with actor, writer, and director Lake Bell! With the release of the her new audiobook (“Inside Voice: My Obsession with How We Sound”) we pinpoint the origin of this passion: growing up in Manhattan in the 1980s (8:10), being drawn to actor Lauren Bacall’s register at age six (11:18), and capturing an array of voices via tape recorder at age fifteen (15:25) before writing/directing her debut film on the subject, “In a World,” in 2013 (22:05).

On the back-half, we chart the changes in Lake’s voice over a decade (23:22), the traumatic effects of psychogenic dysphonia (25:22), the ephemerality of a child’s speech (31:15), the unnerving phenomenon of the “sexy baby” affectation (37:27), and the privilege (and reward) of aging into your voice (43:50).

To listen to “Inside Voice”, visit https://www.pushkin.fm/audiobooks/inside-voice.

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0:00.0	Pushkin. This is talk easy. I'm Sam forgo so welcome the show.
0:27.0	Welcome to the show. Today I'm joined by actor, writer, and director Lake Bell. You may have seen her on screen in films like No Strings Attached,
0:51.5	it's complicated or or Black Panther or Kanda forever.
0:55.4	When she's not in front of the camera, she's often behind it, directing two feature films,
1:00.9	along with episodes of the Emmy-nominated Pam and Tommy in the ABC series,
1:07.0	Bless This Mess, which she also co-created.
1:11.1	Through the years, she's led a varied career seamlessly moving from one medium or
1:16.7	genre to the next. But through it all, there's been one obsession she keeps returning to, a passion she can't quite shake, and that is the human voice.
1:27.7	She first explored this curiosity in her 2013 directorial debut in a world,
1:34.4	playing a vocal coach who unwittingly finds herself
1:37.4	in competition with her father,
1:39.3	a renowned voice-over artist,
1:41.4	played by Fred Melimed.
1:43.2	Nearly a decade later,
1:45.0	Bell has returned to the subject with her excellent new
1:47.7	audiobook Inside Voice,
1:50.0	My obsession with how we sound.
1:52.7	Created with Pushkin Industries, the project is written and narrated by Bell,
1:57.7	featuring interviews with legends like Drew Barrymore, Pam Greer,
2:01.9	Tracy Olman, and Jeff Goldblum.
2:04.3	Lake also speaks with poets, doctors, linguists, voice coaches, and pedestrians on the
2:10.6	street to discover how this vital piece of our identity, the human voice, serves
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