“Project Hail Mary” with Ray Porter
About this episode
Kal Penn interviews Ray Porter about narrating the audiobook of Project Hail Mary and the challenges of voice acting in science fiction.
For the premiere of our second season, Kal Penn dives into Andy Weir's interstellar epic Project Hail Mary with the man who narrated the audiobook: Ray Porter. They break down the challenge of performing dense science without losing the fun, finding real emotion behind the mic, and take up the new Ryan Gosling-led movie (as well as Ray's cameo). Plus: British comfort food in space, vocal warm‑up secrets, and the one thing Ray would not bring aboard a spaceship. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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