Search Party's Shalita Grant turned to "Mother Google" for research on vocal fry

Los Angeles Times

Grant is credited with offering more sympathetic portrayal of somebody with vocal fry after learning that women subconsciously lower the pitch of their voices to sound more like men and thus more “serious,” resulting in an unnatural rasp. “She’s doing this because she wants to sound professional, because she wants to be in this space, because she actually cares about her job and how people view her. Now, I can apply that across the ... board,” says Grant of her character, noting that plenty of men do the same thing with their voices, most notably rapper Lil Wayne. “He’s frying all over the place," she says. "But when we hear it in women, we think it’s a joke.”