Chris Pratt isn’t too worried about the advent of AI in Hollywood. The 46-year-old actor spoke to Variety on Tuesday, January 20, at the New York premiere of Mercy. He revealed, “I don’t think someone’s going to replace me that’s AI.” Pratt also shared his scathing criticism of AI actress Tilly Norwood.
Chris Pratt said this about AI actress Tilly Norwood
Chris Pratt isn’t losing sleep over AI actress Tilly Norwood. In an interview with Variety, he revealed, “I heard this Tilly Norwood thing, and I think that’s all bulls**t. I have never seen her in a movie. I don’t know who this b**** is. It’s all fake until it’s something.”
Furthermore, Pratt described AI as an “amazing tool” and said that, in the “right hands,” it could really help people tell stories. Adding further, the Passengers star added, “It’s inevitably going to disrupt the industry. We are in the midst of an intellectual revolution. We are not the first or the last industry to be disrupted by AI. I think we just keep trucking forward, you know.”
The Terminal List alum believes he has no doubt that great filmmakers will continue making great films, irrespective of AI. He dished, “Great filmmakers are going to make great films, and they are going to probably implement these tools if it helps streamline production, if it helps bring the cost of production down. It’s inevitable.”
“And I don’t think it’s going to replace the human soul or a director or a writer or an actor or a singer or any of this stuff that requires human yearning or suffering and vision and art. It’s a soul-to-soul connection when you are watching a movie.”
Towards the end, he cheekily promoted his movie Mercy, urging everyone to watch it because Leonardo DiCaprio “loves the movie.”
Notably, Norwood marks the first project from Xicoia, a new AI talent venture launched by Dutch comedian Eline Van der Velden. Van der Velden formally launched the initiative at the Zurich Summit during the Zurich Film Festival.
At the time, there was an intense backlash surrounding Norwood’s origins and the fact that she was AI-generated. However, Van der Velden defended his AI creation as “not a replacement for a human being, but a creative work – a piece of art” (via Variety).
