‘They’re just going to steal my body’: Nicolas Cage is ‘terrified’ of AI and doesn't want his scans to be used after death
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Nicolas Cage recently admitted that he is terrified of Artificial Intelligence and does not want his AI-scanned images to be used even after his death.
Recently, during an interview with The New Yorker, the 60-year-old actor opened up about his fears about the latest technology that has had a significant influence on Hollywood.
During the interview, the Oscar-winner shared he would be doing two body scans for his upcoming projects. However, he is afraid that those two impressions might be used in the future to recreate him on screen.
Nicolas Cage's fear of AI revealed
Cage has been roped in to star in the MGM+ and Amazon Prime Video’s live-action ‘Spider-Man Noir’ series. Midway in the interview, the ‘Ghost Rider’ star shared that he would be going for two scans on the same day.
“I have to slip out after this to go get a scan done for the show, and then also for the movie I’m doing after the show. Two scans in one day!” said the actor, per Variety.
Cage explained, “They have to put me in a computer and match my eye color and change — I don’t know.”
However, he wasn’t very enthusiastic about it, as he said, “They’re just going to steal my body and do whatever they want with it via digital AI. … God, I hope not AI. I’m terrified of that."
He added, “I’ve been very vocal about it.”
The ‘Longlegs’ star continued, “And it makes me wonder, you know, where will the truth of the artists end up? Is it going to be replaced? Is it going to be transmogrified? Where’s the heartbeat going to be?”
Cage didn’t sound too pleased with the technology, as he vented out, “I mean, what are you going to do with my body and my face when I’m dead? I don’t want you to do anything with it!”
Nicolas Cage opens up about his television role
Despite his apprehension, Cage’s role in the ‘Spider-Man Noir’ series would be his most prominent television role to date.
He explained in the interview that his motivation behind taking up the role was that he could express himself freely.
While admitting that television never appealed to him, Cage shared that “what interested me was the time I could take expressing something.”
He explained, “I saw Bryan Cranston in ‘Breaking Bad’ stare at a suitcase for half the episode,” and continued, “Just him on the floor looking at a suitcase thinking, ‘What’s in it? Do I do this? Don’t I do it?’ I thought, ‘We don’t have time to do that in movies.’”
Thus, the opportunity to star in a television series gave him the chance to experiment with long scenes.
“So that to me seemed like an opportunity to open it up a little. I don’t know if the project that I’m exploring has room for that. I think this is a much more sort of popcorn-entertainment episodic,” explained the ‘Dream Scenario’ star.
He further gushed about the series saying, the eight-episode series is “more of a Pop-art mashup, like a Lichtenstein painting” with “some sparkle to it.”
He continued, “I don’t like violence. I don’t want to play people who are hurting people. One of the things that I like about this potential show is that it’s fantasy."
He quickly added, “It’s not really people beating people up. Monsters are involved.”
