![]() GUY OLDFIELD: I've yet to meet an actor, regardless of their stature, who hasn't been humbled by the experience of narrating an audiobook. He's the head of production at Macmillan Audio, and he said that being famous doesn't get you any bonus points when you're in the recording booth. You can find Jake Gyllenhaal reading "The Great Gatsby," Samira Wiley reading "The Color Purple," Claire Danes reading "The Handmaid's Tale." The folks in charge of the Britney Spears audiobook declined an interview, but I talked to Guy Oldfield. LIMBONG: There's a long list of screen actors lending their voices to books, apart from their own memoirs, of course. I would probably put it more harshly than that. WILLIAMS: (Reading) The way people talk about men like June in the South is to say nothing was ever good enough for him and that he was a perfectionist, that he was a very involved father. LIMBONG: But there is something tender in how Williams translates Britney Spears' understated anger, like in this early section where Spears talks about her abusive grandfather, June Spears. MICHELLE WILLIAMS: (Reading) Jay got all excited and said so loud, oh, yeah, fo' shiz, fo' shiz (ph). LIMBONG: Now, a lot of the excerpts of Michelle Williams reading that have gone viral are the more cringy bits, like Spears recounting her former partner Justin Timberlake running into the rapper Ginuwine. For those reasons, I will only be reading a small part of my audiobook. SPEARS: (Reading) Reliving everything that you're about to hear has been exciting, heart-wrenching and emotional, to say the least. LIMBONG: The book goes through her childhood, her rise to fame, her rocky relationships both romantic and familial, the conservatorship she found herself under and her fight to get out of it. As a little girl, I walked for hours alone in the silent woods behind my house in Louisiana, singing songs. (SOUNDBITE OF AUDIOBOOK, "THE WOMAN IN ME")īRITNEY SPEARS: (Reading) Prologue. NPR's Andrew Limbong has more.ĪNDREW LIMBONG, BYLINE: Britney Spears - and her voice does make an appearance in the audiobook at the very beginning. ![]() And while big-name actors reading audiobooks isn't necessarily new, the key to a successful audiobook performance isn't as simple as hiring a marquee name. Email your recruiting contact immediately if you’re unable to connect.The actor Michelle Williams is getting heaps of praise for her performance reading the audiobook version of the new Britney Spears memoir, "The Woman In Me." Variety called her narration a work of, quote, "profound sympathy and ecstatic transformation." The New York Times says Williams telegraphs mirth, regret, pride and fear.Make sure you’re in an area with a strong internet connection. If you’re having audio issues, whether you’re having trouble hearing the interviewer or the interviewer cannot hear you, the issue may be connectivity.If you experience technical difficulties during your interview, close out and re-enter the Chime bridge. ![]() They will remain off camera and muted for the duration of your interview.
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