

The Captioning Conundrum: Why Hollywood Film Fests Still Struggle to Serve Deaf Audience Members “It can be intimidating to say to anyone, ‘We want to tell a story exclusively through a series of phone calls and hope that you can build something over the course of eight episodes that would keep a listener engaged,’ ” Brosnahan says, adding that the Audible team “trusted us implicitly and made that very clear to us.” The project was also Brosnahan and Scrap Paper Pictures’ “first foray into audio,” she says, and Audible emerged as the ideal partner. Through her production arm Scrap Paper Pictures, Brosnahan executive produces and stars as the titular Miranda in an Audible Original adaptation of the story, joined by a cast that includes Josh Groban and Milo Ventimiglia.

It’s a story, first reported in Vanity Fair, that was “tailor-made for audio,” as Rachel Brosnahan describes it. Using just her voice, the woman - known as Miranda - charms and seduces them into staying on the phone to gossip and reveal secrets they wouldn’t otherwise have told a complete stranger. In The Miranda Obsession, listeners are treated to a series of late-night phone calls between a mysterious woman and a who’s who of Hollywood men.
