Hacker News with Generative AI: Acting

Nic Cage Urges Young Actors to Protect Themselves from AI (deadline.com)
Nicolas Cage took to the stage at the 25th Newport Beach Film Festival on Sunday to urge up-and-coming actors from giving into pressure from employers opting to use artificial intelligence to change or otherwise manipulate their performance.

Artificial Intelligence, Film, Acting, Technology, Entertainment

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Maggie Smith has died (variety.com)
British stage and screen actress Maggie Smith, the “Downton Abbey” and “Harry Potter” star who numbers two Oscars, three Emmys and countless stage awards to her credit, died Friday in London. She was 89.

Obituaries, British Cinema, Acting

405 points by asix66 67 days ago | 44 comments

James Earl Jones, Actor Whose Voice Could Menace or Melt, Dies at 93 (nytimes.com)
James Earl Jones, a stuttering farm child who became a voice of rolling thunder as one of America’s most versatile actors in a stage, film and television career that plumbed race relations, Shakespeare’s rhapsodic tragedies and the faceless menace of Darth Vader, died on Monday at his home in Dutchess County, N.Y. He was 93.