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Nicolas Cage continues to share his concerns about artificial intelligence in Hollywood.
At the 25th Newport Beach Film Festival on Sunday, the actor gave a speech at the Honors Brunch prior to accepting the Icon Award, highlighting the need to take control of one’s image and performance amid the growing popularity of AI in studios did.
“There’s new technology in town, and it’s technology that I haven’t had to fight with in 42 years until recently. But this generation of 10 young actors definitely will, and they’re going to fight it.” It is called EBDR. This technology is trying to take away your instrument. We are musical instruments, like movie actors. It’s not like I’m hiding behind a guitar or drums,” Cage said.
EBDR, short for “employment-based digital replica,” is one of two digital replicas allowed under an agreement reached by actors union SAG-AFTRA and studios following last year’s double strike.
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Nicolas Cage warned actors at a recent film festival that the artificial intelligence used in studios was “trying to take away your instruments.” (Jesse Grant/Variety, via Getty Images)
According to the terms of the contract, “the EBDR is made in connection with employment in the film” and may require measures such as scanning the actor’s body. Compensation is determined based on how much work the performer actually does on the scene in which the digital replica is used, and the performer is entitled to any residuals from the appearance of the replica in the finished product.
“The studios want this so they can change your face after filming. They can change your face, they can change your voice, they can change the way you deliver your lines. , you can change your body language, you can change your facial expressions,” Cage warned.
“This technology is trying to take away your instruments. We are instruments like movie actors.”
— Nicolas Cage
He continued, “When a studio approaches me to sign a contract that allows them to use EBDR in a performance, I think about what I call ‘MVMFMBMI’: my voice, my face.” I want it. Please protect my body, my imagination, my playing, your instrument. ”
Cage told the audience to “protect your instruments.” (Jesse Grant/Variety, via Getty Images)
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The Oscar winner has expressed concerns about the technology several times in the past.
In an interview with The New Yorker in July, Cage said he needed to leave to “scan” for his next role, but admitted he was nervous about the concept.
“Well, they’re going to have to put me in a computer and change my eye color to match. I don’t know. They’re just going to steal my body and do whatever they want to it via digital AI.” …God, I hope,’ I’ve been very vocal about it,” he said during the interview.
Cage has expressed concerns about AI in the past, including being wary of his likeness being scanned for projects he’s worked on. (Leon Bennett/Getty Images, NEON)
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“And I wonder where the truth of the artists ends up, will it be replaced? Will it be transformed? Where will the heartbeat go?”
“I mean, what are you going to do with my body and face when I die? I don’t want you to do anything about it,” he said.
The actor also told The Associated Press in a December 2023 interview that he was concerned about his right to life and the use of posthumous celebrity likenesses by AI, calling the digital recreation “inhumane.” said.
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“Somebody now has the rights to James Dean. They could put him in a Vietnam movie and that’s what they’re going to do. … To me, that’s inhumane, Okay, it’s inhumane. It can’t be any more inhumane.” People will lose their jobs more than AI, and I’m sure he won’t be happy about that, right? ” Cage declared.
Last year, the BBC reported that an AI version of Dean would appear in a movie titled Back to Eden. In 2019, The Hollywood Reporter reported that Magic City Films had announced that the late actor would be cast in the film Finding Jack, but the film ultimately fell through.
