Edoardo Ballerini

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🗓️ 27 February 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Edoardo Ballerini: vodka martini, three olives Award-winning audiobook narrator and actor Edoardo discusses how he went from studying Latin at the Vatican to joining an acting troupe then making his NYC acting debut on LAW & ORDER, identifies which areas of the arts are most immediately under threat from artificial intelligence, tells how the audiobook business has evolved since his first narration in 2007, and how the nuance of reading characters of a different age/race/gender has changed in recent years, explains the goals of the university course on audiobook narration that he teaches, reveals his favorite place in Italy, and tells why we should not go faster than 1x.

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0:45.2	Welcome to Dedicated. I'm your host Doug Brunt. Today we're talking with Eduardo Ballerini.
0:49.4	In addition to an impressive list of films and TV shows that he starred in,
0:54.5	including many of my favorites like Boardwalk Empire, The Sopranos, 24, Romeo Must Die.
1:00.3	He's also done the audiobook narration for many of my favorite books, including The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt, Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter, and the Lincoln Highway by Amor Tolls.
1:06.3	After narrating the Hebrew Bible, New York Magazine called Eduardo the voice of God. So if you're curious
1:13.3	to know what that sounds like, stay tuned just a few more seconds. Eduardo, welcome to the show.
1:18.0	Thank you. I feel like I have to have some really impressive first entry into this, the voice of
1:23.0	God. Right, right, yeah, no pressure. Just do your best God invitation. I actually think you've
1:26.7	probably got the closer to the voice of God of the two of us.
1:45.4	Well, thank you. I feel like that headline was a little misleading in that it was really about having recorded the Bible as opposed to like sounding like. James or Jones or whatever, you know. Well, everyone's got their own interpretation of what it might sound like. Right. Today we are had, so you and I have had this book for forever and I've been looking forward to this martini, which we're going to have today, vodka
1:48.8	martini, three olives. Yes, and nice and simple because the martini has gotten out of control
1:56.2	as far as I can tell. There was a great piece by Sam Sift and in the New York Times about the
2:00.6	martini
2:00.9	about five, six months ago. Now, everybody has just gotten crazy with what they put in to the martini. Right. And it's the olive that's always the killer, right? Because people feel like they've got to dress it up somehow and do something with the olive. So you'll find like, like, cheese, that's anything.
1:57.0	Cheese, yeah.
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