Overview

• Blunt called the footage of the AI-created actress “very, very disturbing” in a Variety interview.
• She appealed to agencies to stop adopting AI performers, warning against severing human connections in casting.
• Tilly Norwood is a creation of the studio Xicoia, part of entrepreneur Eline Van der Velden’s AI company.
• Van der Velden told Broadcast International she wants Tilly to become the next Scarlett Johansson or Natalie Portman.
• Blunt responded to that ambition by noting, “But we already have Scarlett Johansson,” as reported by dpa.