I’ve always admired voice actors (Kevin Conroy, Cree Summer and Clancy Brown, anyone?)—heck, if my voice didn’t bring to mind a happily drunk frog hiding in a foghorn, I would have loved to be one.
But I never noticed how few female narrators there are in movie trailers—in fact, I can’t think of a single trailer with a female narrator who isn’t a member of the cast. It never even occurred to me to pay attention to this.
But Lake Bell noticed. And she’s written and directed and acted in a movie about it that looks as thought-provoking as it is funny:
I completely agree with that last line.
Who’s with me?
Earful of Cider 