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De-aged stars, cloned voices: How AI is changing acting
Los Angeles Times ^ | July 24, 2025 3 AM PT | Josh Rottenberg

Posted on 07/24/2025 10:56:15 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

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1 posted on 07/24/2025 10:56:15 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Good, no more celebrities spewing their crap political opinions.


2 posted on 07/24/2025 10:57:33 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Great! I’d love some new John Wayne and Cary Grant movies ... As long as they are like the originals in theme.


3 posted on 07/24/2025 11:15:03 AM PDT by Whatever Works (The real power lies in who counts the votes and controls the teleprompter.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Entertainment is not reality.... Note to self: spend very little time in it...


4 posted on 07/24/2025 11:15:46 AM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
In a similar vein, LOOKER, a 1981 film where beautiful models are digitized and then eliminated so they never grow old.
5 posted on 07/24/2025 11:21:26 AM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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To: Whatever Works

Hollywood is realizing what can be done with A.I.
Actors/actresses and large studio stage buildings will go the way of the Dodo bird and buggy whip.
Personally I’m looking forward to the new John Wayne movie once the rights to use his persona are agreed to by his estate.
Will be great to see so many of the Old Hollywood greats again.
Cagney, Bogart, Flynn etc..
But then I remember this is Holyweird and probably screw it up. But then again no. All that is needed is the first AI movie with a bygone great to be a big success. Then the estates of past greats will be clamoring to get on the band wagon. We may see a second “Golden Age” of Hollywood.


6 posted on 07/24/2025 11:25:25 AM PDT by gdzla (Tyrannis Seditio, Obsequium Deo)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Why do we need actors anyway? Just AI John Wayne and Bogart.


7 posted on 07/24/2025 11:36:59 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( )
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In that movie Looker did you remember a throw away scene that featured an AI generated politician doing a speech? Remember the scene where they were digitizing Suzan Dey?


8 posted on 07/24/2025 11:40:17 AM PDT by itsahoot (Many Republicans are secretly Democrats, no Democrats are secretly Republicans. Dan Bongino.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

There’s a Black Mirror episode about this. That series has gone downhill.


9 posted on 07/24/2025 11:42:05 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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There’s a Black Mirror episode about this. That series has gone downhill.

It was pretty good at the beginning, but I haven't watched it in years.


10 posted on 07/24/2025 11:46:11 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of racism, anger, hate and violence.)
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I certainly remembered Susan Dey!


11 posted on 07/24/2025 11:50:50 AM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

LOL. The new Hollywood star is going to be a geeky nerd with insane video editing skill. Square-jawed prima donnas need not apply.


12 posted on 07/24/2025 11:51:06 AM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves.)
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But then I remember this is Holyweird and probably screw it up.

Yup. With Hollyweird in control, you'll most likely see John Wayne twerking, grabbing his crotch, or engaged in fudge-packery with Clark Gable. They can't help themselves.
13 posted on 07/24/2025 11:51:09 AM PDT by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

If saying “F***” is the only way you can keep your professional integrity, you’re a piss-poor actor.


14 posted on 07/24/2025 11:53:34 AM PDT by jagusafr ( )
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Replacing the entire celebrity class with AI is a technological innovation I can get behind. Unfortunately it won’t be long before the AI is programmed to be just as woke as the humans it replaced.


15 posted on 07/24/2025 11:56:15 AM PDT by FormerFRLurker ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities"-Voltaire)
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But what will the dudes pretending go be some other dude playing another dude do?


16 posted on 07/24/2025 11:56:24 AM PDT by vikingd00d (chown -R us ~you/base)
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Prepare yourself for John Wayne and Cary Grant in La Cage aux Folles.


17 posted on 07/24/2025 12:02:32 PM PDT by dangus
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Is this why Brad Pitt looks 25 years younger in F-1? There’s no way he really looks like that with his liver.


18 posted on 07/24/2025 12:03:47 PM PDT by ponygirl (Stay gold.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
This is just SO damned stupid!

The REAL problem is that for a long time now, writers can't write, actors and actresses can't act, directors can't direct, and movies & T.V. shows STINK ON ICE!

Nothing can really replace a GREAT actor, actress, or writer and CGI has already ruined movies. So replacing everything with AI and CGI crap, will produce.........CRAP!

19 posted on 07/24/2025 12:04:19 PM PDT by nopardons
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“Prepare yourself for John Wayne and Cary Grant in La Cage aux Folles.”

Nnnnnnooooooooo!


20 posted on 07/24/2025 12:05:14 PM PDT by Whatever Works (The real power lies in who counts the votes and controls the teleprompter.)
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