{"id":347788,"date":"2025-12-16T00:06:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T00:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/347788\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T00:06:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T00:06:06","slug":"kevin-oleary-kinda-sorta-changes-tune-on-ai-actors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/347788\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin O’Leary kinda sorta changes tune on AI actors"},"content":{"rendered":"

In October, Shark Tank\u2018s Kevin O\u2019Leary made waves<\/a> with his assertion that using \u201c100 Norwell Tillies\u201d could have saved enough money on extras to make two Marty Supreme<\/a>s. Perhaps since then he had a profound experience of art, or perhaps he just saw how his malapropism-laced suggestion was received. But in any case, he now wants to clarify his comments and says he has \u201cto act with an AI agent.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

This comes from a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>, in which O\u2019Leary suggests that his comments about extras were taken out of context. \u201cI remember doing shoots back in 1984 in arenas where we put cutouts in the seats\u2026 They did that in Ben-Hur. You didn\u2019t make people sit there for 16 hours. Today, I think we would do that with AI and it would be the same thing.\u201d That being said, it sounds like O\u2019Leary sort of came around to the understanding that having real people fill the smaller parts still makes a difference that can\u2019t be replicated with an algorithm.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For what it\u2019s worth, Marty Supreme is O\u2019Leary\u2019s film debut, and the vast majority of his time on camera before this was for a reality TV show where they would \u201cbang out multiple episodes in one day.\u201d This is fundamentally different from how a film like Marty Supreme, which employed dozens of craftspeople who dedicated themselves to portraying historical details, works. \u201cWhat specifically changed my view was the fact that so much of the improvised lines made it into the final cut,\u201d O\u2019Leary says now. \u201cThat only happens in the magic of 4 a.m., when somebody says something that the other actor riffs off of.\u201d He also learned that he wouldn\u2019t want to act opposite a Tilly Norwood (or a Norwell Tilly, for that matter) because \u201cI don\u2019t know how you can do it any other way than just have those actors in that moment\u2026 Or if an extra is in an interaction with the principal, you can never use AI because you\u2019ll never have the cadence. It won\u2019t work next year. It won\u2019t work the year after that.\u201d And for that reason, he\u2019s out. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In October, Shark Tank\u2018s Kevin O\u2019Leary made waves with his assertion that using \u201c100 Norwell Tillies\u201d could have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,49,48,61],"class_list":{"0":"post-347788","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}