Nicolas Cage Urges Young Actors To Protect Themselves From AI: “This Technology Wants To Take Your Instrument”
deadline.comNicolas Cage took to the stage at the 25th Newport Beach Film Festival on Sunday to urge up-and-coming actors from giving into pressure from employers opting to use artificial intelligence to change or otherwise manipulate their performance.
The veteran A-Lister was making a speech ahead of his Icon Award reception during the fete’s Honors Brunch taking place at the Balboa Bay Resort, which also featured honorees like June Squibb, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Colman Domingo and more. “Film performance, to me, is very much a handmade, organic, from-scratch process,” the Longlegs actor said while uplifting young actors. “It’s from the heart, it’s from the imagination, it’s from thoughts and detail and thinking and honing and preparing.” He continued, “There is a new technology in town.
It’s a technology that I didn’t have to contend with for 42 years until recently. But these 10 young actors, this generation, most certainly will be, and they are calling it EBDR.
This technology wants to take your instrument. We are the instruments as film actors. We are not hiding behind guitars and drums.” Employment-based digital replica, or EBDR, is one of two digital replicas permitted by the SAG-AFTRA deal struck with the Alliance of Motion Pictures and Television Producers, or studios, after the conclusion of the dual Hollywood strikes in fall 2023.
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