Jamie Lee Curtisis confident that AI will never be able to replace actors. The tools provided by new technologies have advanced a lot in recent years, assisting not only large companies or the film industry in special effects, but also in daily activities and even in writing.
With the writers' strike still underway in Hollywood, and a potential actor’s union strike as well, the debate over replacing any human activity with AI is raging in major studios, with some already using tools like ChatGPT to develop scripts. Paramount, for example, recently used that tool in an episode fromSouth Park, although more like a satire.
However, several actors like Tom Hanks and directors like Joe Russo have already expressed concern about the place that Artificial Intelligence could occupy in the industry in the near future. And now Jamie Lee Curtis has shared her take. While promoting her next project, Disney’sHaunted Mansion, the actress spoke withCollider about this issue:
“The visual effects level is all technology. Once you know how to do that, it’s science. The performing part is not science, which is why AI will never work because emotions are real and they come from human beings. They don’t come from machines. So to watch beautiful actors do that kind of work, under those circumstances, is something very impressive to me.”
Curtis recently won her first ever Academy Award for her performance in Everything Everywhere All at Once after almost 50 years of working as an actress, so she’s more than an authorized voice to speak out about this.
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Jamie Lee Curtis Role in Haunted Mansion
As she prepares to bring back one of his greatest teen classics alongside the House of Mouse,Freaky Friday, Jamie Lee Curtis returns to Disney with a great cast for a new film based on one of the parks' most popular attractions,The Haunted Mansion.
This time, the film focuses on a woman and her son who, after moving to a new home, must hire a group of experts in the paranormal to free her from the spirits that inhabit it.
Curtis plays Madame Leota, a woman whose spirit is trapped inside a crystal ball. She will be joined by LaKeith Stanfield as a paranormal tour guide, Tiffany Haddish as a psychic, Owen Wilson as a priest, and Danny DeVito as a historian, the group in charge of helping Gabbie (Rosario Dawson) and Travis (Chase W. Dillon). The cast is completed by Jared Leto, Dan Levy and Winona Ryder.
Haunted Mansionhits theaters on July 28. This is the second cinematic adaptation of a story based on the game. Back in 2003, Eddie Murphy starred in another supernatural horror comedy that was directed by Rob Minkoff, joined by Terence Stamp, Wallace Shawn, Marsha Thomason, and Jennifer Tilly. Although it was not well received by critics, it did pretty well at the box-office, something Disney’s definitely pursuing with this new version.
