Hollywood is at a crossroads and the 160,000 actors that make up SAG-AFTRA are seemingly in the driver’s seat.
13.06.2023 - 20:16 / variety.com
ChatGPT might very well take my job one day. Which is why it was probably a bad idea to give it a job interviewing the creators and star of Peacock’s offbeat limited series “Mrs. Davis.” But the gimmick was too good to pass up: “Mrs. Davis,” created by Tara Hernandez and Damon Lindelof, stars Betty Gilpin as Sister Simone, a nun who takes on an algorithm that has infiltrated most of the world with the promise of solving humanity’s problems. So, I figured, why not have an AI grill Hernandez, Lindelof and Gilpin about their show. The three of them immediately got it. We’re all victims of the algorithm and fascinated by the hold it now has on our lives and our jobs.
“On days where my screen time is a billion hours and I’ve filled my brain with my specific robot puppy algorithm, doom scrolling and wish fulfillment montage on my screen, it’s been harder and harder to access the stillness that I need to be creative,” Gilpin sighs. “When I open my phone, I don’t use it to connect and get smarter. I use it to disconnect and get dumber, usually. I leave my phone feeling worse than when I picked it up. What makes me afraid is that as these AI capabilities are suddenly tripling and quadrupling; our emotional maturity and respect for each other and the planet is not multiplying at the same rate. I don’t trust us to use these tools for good… I think that we are sort of scrolling and clicking ourselves out of some vital parts of the human experience.”
Gilpin shares some of the same concerns as Sister Simone. In the show, while most of the world embraces the AI named Mrs. Davis — and chases after its clout (in this case, “wings”) — Simone doesn’t buy into it. She’s the product of jaded magicians, an upbringing that led her to
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“Mrs. Davis,” she says she finds the show’s ability to vacillate between comedy, drama, sci-fi and even absurdity much more true to life than the confines of a single genre box.“The show cycles through genres every two pages,” Gilpin says in the latest episode of TheWrap’s “How She Did It,” presented by Peacock. “I find that much more true to life than when a show is one tone, one color.
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