Dual Roles

You most likely recognize Will Patton’s face—you may have seen the prolific actor with Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck saving Earth by drilling a nuclear weapon into an asteroid in . Or coaching with Denzel Washington in . The South Carolina native is arguably the only good thing about the Kevin Costner film . And lately, he’s starred as Garrett Randall in the hit TV series , and in the Oscar darling . But you may also have heard Patton without realizing it: The quiet, knowing grit of his singular voice has come to define the audiobook genre. He reads in a charismatic whisper,