As Audible editors, we eat, sleep, and breathe audio. But we also cherish our TV time, and when our two passions collide, we’re obsessed. So we jumped at the chance to chat with Isaiah Mustafa, star of Prime Video’s Cross, which recently returned for its second nail-biting season. Based on James Patterson’s Alex Cross series, the show follows its namesake forensic psychologist (Aldis Hodge) alongside his partner, Detective John Sampson (Mustafa), as they pursue dangerous killers in metropolitan Washington, DC.
Turns out, Mustafa doesn’t just have an iconic acting résumé (his Old Spice commercials can live rent-free in our heads for eternity), he’s also a legit audiophile whose listening habits and badge flexes made even us do a double-take—and he’s an up-and-coming author himself!
In this episode of This Is Audible, we discuss:
An inside look at Cross’s second season
Why audiobook narration is so daunting, and the epic performance that inspired him
Why he’d battle anyone with his Audible badges
What “The Man Your Man Could Smell Like” thinks about fame now
His upcoming first novel, an urban fantasy noir
And so much more! Listen to the whole conversation here, and be sure to listen to Cross and Sampson, written by James Patterson and Brian Sitts and narrated by Isaiah Mustafa and Dion Graham, available on Audible now.
