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AI ‘Actress’ Tilly Norwood Generating Controversy in Hollywood as ‘Talent Agencies’ Line up To Work With It (VIDEO)
Gateway Pundit ^ | September 29, 2025 | Paul Serran

Posted on 09/29/2025 1:28:05 PM PDT by Red Badger

Will the new AI character be the death of human performers in movies?

Hollywood may soon be filled with falling human stars and rising AI starlets.

Film director Alfred Hitchcock, the ‘master of suspense’, once said ‘all actors must be treated like cattle’ – but if you think that’s bad, brace yourselves for the brave new world we’re living in, where actors won’t even exist as such, anymore.

The creation of AI ‘actress’ Tilly Norwood has generated a massive wave of backlash over the unsurprising news that ‘talent agents’ were already lining up to sign the ‘digital character’.

Tilly Norwood seens as a threat by Hollywood actors.

Variety reported:

“’To those who have expressed anger over the creation of my AI character, Tilly Norwood, she is not a replacement for a human being, but a creative work – a piece of art. Like many forms of art before her, she sparks conversation, and that in itself shows the power of creativity’, Eline Van der Velden wrote in a statement on Instagram, also posted on Norwood’s own Instagram page.

‘I see AI not as a replacement for people, but as a new tool, a new paintbrush. Just as animation, puppetry, or CGI opened fresh possibilities without taking away from live acting, AI offers another way to imagine and build stories. I’m an actor myself, and nothing – certainly not an AI character – can take away the craft or joy of human performance’.”

Van der Velden has said earlier that ‘talent agents’ had been circling the ‘AI character’ and she expects that an agency will be chosen to represent it (not ‘her’) in the next few months.

A multitude of actors have protested the development. Are they fighting for sanity, or are they falling stars overcome by technical developments like Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard?

Gloria Swanson as ageing silent picture star Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard.

According to Hollywood Reporter:

“Over the weekend, a host of actors responded to the news that agencies were circling Norwood. The threat of AI has long haunted industry creatives, and regulations around the craft became a linchpin clause through the SAG-AFTRA strikes of 2023.

Notable uses of AI in film and television include the de-aging of certain actors or generating complex visual effects, but fears concerning AI’s ability to replace actors – or illegally use their likeness – have continued to creep up on Hollywood.”


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: acting; actors; actress; ai; hollywood; technology
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To: dayglored

someone give her some tweezers!! them brows could start a brush fire!!


41 posted on 09/29/2025 3:16:49 PM PDT by sit-rep (START DEMANDING INDICTMENTS NOW!!!!!)
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To: Jim W N

S1m0ne? Oh, man, is that one a guilty pleasure.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0258153/


42 posted on 09/29/2025 3:49:32 PM PDT by Retrofitted
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To: Jim W N

AIsha taylor


43 posted on 09/29/2025 3:57:12 PM PDT by dangus
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To: CodeToad
She’s a 3π!

No, silly. She's a perfect two! As in 10 (think binary)

44 posted on 09/29/2025 3:57:58 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: mykroar; Lazamataz

Laz would tell her to “byte me like I’m you’re slave device”.


45 posted on 09/29/2025 4:03:39 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Red Badger

Artificial face, artificial hair, artificial breasts, and she can only sound intelligent aping words written by somebody else. Sounds to me like she’d fit right in.


46 posted on 09/29/2025 4:12:14 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Sgt_Schultze; No name given ; Red Badger

We came close to this with the Muppet movies. I can imagine keeping actors like Tim Kerry and Michael Cane and letting them interact with AI products.


47 posted on 09/29/2025 5:08:55 PM PDT by Retain Mike ( Sat Cong)
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To: ek_hornbeck

To your point.
I read a good synopsis of why current writers struggle with creating new stories. In short they never read the classics.
Most all of the movies we love are retelling of the old classics. Taking the same morals and relating them to the current times. Yes there are some very creative writers today but the movies are a rehash of a previous version at best.


48 posted on 09/29/2025 5:19:16 PM PDT by enraged
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To: Socon-Econ

She can do magic—look at her drink that coffee with a straw and a lid.


49 posted on 09/29/2025 6:22:31 PM PDT by Irenic
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To: dangus
AIsha taylor

"AI" has gotta be the initials. That's "AT". Doesn't count.

50 posted on 09/29/2025 6:48:02 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: ek_hornbeck

They need to make her better looking with bigger bosoms... 🤪 😜


51 posted on 09/30/2025 12:10:36 AM PDT by minnesota_bound (Making money now. Still want much more.)
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To: ek_hornbeck

At least they won’t be smug, condescending liberal Karens and Kens...................


52 posted on 09/30/2025 5:13:49 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Jim W N

Amelia Idiot?..............


53 posted on 09/30/2025 5:14:34 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: rottndog

Resurrecting long dead stars will be the next big thing.

Imagine a new John Wayne western!

Or a new Bette Davis film!................


54 posted on 09/30/2025 5:16:49 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: rottndog

Resurrecting long dead stars will be the next big thing.

Imagine a new John Wayne western!

Or a new Bette Davis film!................


55 posted on 09/30/2025 5:16:52 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: pepsi_junkie

There will be a market for actors leasing their likenesses for films and such, like athletes do for video games............


56 posted on 09/30/2025 5:18:16 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: jagusafr

It’s communism being fed to us by the teaspoon................


57 posted on 09/30/2025 5:25:55 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Hammerhead

And AI actors never grow old. Never demand a raise. Never walk off the set in a huff...................


58 posted on 09/30/2025 5:39:46 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger
Amelia Idiot?..............

That'll work...

59 posted on 09/30/2025 7:50:08 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Red Badger

Which chapter of Revelation are we now in?!


60 posted on 09/30/2025 7:51:37 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (“I don't really care, Margaret.””)
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