A 100% IA actress made her cinema debut… and Hollywood is already shaking

This is a new appearance that should not leave anyone indifferent … presented for the first time at the Zurich Film Festival, Tilly Norwood has never crossed a film set, and for good reason: it is the fruit of an artificial intelligence.

Behind her face and her speech calibrated to perfection, this actress generated by an algorithm raises As much fascination as anger Within Hollywood, already weakened by debates around automation and digital cloning …

A spectacular launch for a virtual character …

While Optai courts Hollywood since the arrival of Sora, who has just experienced a new major evolution, will we finally attend the creation of a first IA actress?

This seems to be the case with Tilly Norwood, the first creation of the Dutch studio Chicoryfounded by the producer and actress Eline van der Velden. Designed as a voluntarily “ideal” actress, she was revealed to the public through a short film entitled AI Commissionerbroadcast on Instagram.

In this video, the digital actress says feel “real emotions”a deliberately disturbing statement and intended to make an impression.

More than 40 other actors to come …

But the project does not stop there, and Xicoia claims to work on Forty other virtual actorseach with a personality, a voice and even a personal story.

Thanks to a technology called DeepFamethese avatars could improvise and interact directly with an audience. According to Eline Van der Velden, Tilly Norwood is intended for become a full -fledged starlike Scarlett Johansson or Natalie Portman.

Hollywood shared between curiosity and rejection

If several agents would have already approached Xicoia to represent Tilly Norwood, this perspective also makes jump part of the profession.

As reported by the Deadline newspaper, Melissa Barreraknown for the Scream saga, calls for boycott of interested agencies, while the actress Mara Wilson accuse the creators of having “Stole the faces of hundreds of young women”. Ralph Inesonknown for the fantastic 4, was just as virulent, denouncing a direct threat to the future of the actors.

These criticisms are reminiscent of the fears already expressed during the actors’ strike in 2023, which alerted the risks linked to the cloning of voice and the reuse of their image.

For many professionals from the world of cinema, the arrival of a virtual actress is a New alarm signal In an industry faced with massive technological upheavals …