In the immortal words of Emily Blunt, “Good Lord, we’re screwed”.
She was on a podcast with Variety Monday when she was handed a headline about cinema’s latest sensation, Tilly Norwood.
Agents are circling the hot property, a fresh-faced young British brunette actress who is attracting global attention.
Norwood is AI, and Blunt is PO’d. In fact, she says, she’s terrified.
Told that Tilly’s creator, Eline Van der Velden, a Dutch former actress with a Master’s in physics, wants her to be the next Scarlett Johansson, Blunt protested: “But we have Scarlett Johansson.” (Cue the Invasion of the Body Snatchers music.)
All over Hollywood, actresses are cursing Tilly, her Pygmalion, Van der Velden, and the increasingly withdrawn men who prefer to be turned on by eternally youthful and preternaturally gorgeous AI replicas.
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