{"id":49962,"date":"2025-09-29T04:42:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T04:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/49962\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T04:42:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T04:42:12","slug":"major-hollywood-talent-agencies-are-looking-to-sign-the-first-ai-actress-tilly-norwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/49962\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Hollywood Talent Agencies Are Looking To Sign The First AI Actress “Tilly Norwood”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Love or hate it, AI is likely here to stay. There’s already been a great deal of controversy surrounding its use in Hollywood, with many actors rejecting the notion of its use in films and TV shows.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Still,\u00a0AI studios are popping up everywhere, and studio heads have openly acknowledged that they’re exploring ways to use the technology to hasten the production process (and, crucially, reduce costs).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Eline Van der Velden is behind\u00a0AI talent studio Xicoia, and has confirmed\u2014via Deadline<\/a>\u2014that they are in talks with several talent agents who wish to sign its first creation,\u00a0AI actress Tilly Norward.<\/p>\n

“We were in a lot of boardrooms around February time, and everyone was like, ‘No, this is nothing. It\u2019s not going to happen,'”\u00a0Van der Velden said.\u00a0“Then, by May, people were like, ‘We need to do something with you guys.’\u00a0When we first launched Tilly, people were like, ‘What\u2019s that?’, and now we\u2019re going to be announcing which agency is going to be representing her in the next few months.”<\/p>\n

These comments come after the studio head revealed that\u00a0Xicoia would\u00a0create, manage and monetise a new generation of hyperreal digital stars, who can presumably be inserted into any movie or TV show.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Van der Velden added, “I remember having meetings with the studios as an AI artist before joining Luma. Some said, ‘Oh, no, we\u2019re not using AI.’\u00a0I knew some were lying, they were already secretly working on some stuff, but some were not open to it at all. Then definitely this year, kind of like March, April, people called me and wanted to talk to me.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

“They were discussing me being a liaison between directors and the AI artists,” she continued. “Historically, the studios have been very slow to adapt, at least publicly, they need that influx of new creatives and new creative technologists to come in and actually show them how it\u2019s done. You can assume that a lot of them are already working on it.”<\/p>\n

If this pans out, it could be a game-changer for Hollywood. It’s hard to imagine major studios releasing titles with an entirely AI cast, but the option is going to be there for them.<\/p>\n

It surely won’t be too long before one of them announces that an AI actor has joined the cast of a movie with an otherwise human ensemble, because in these early days, that’ll be quite a gimmick.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Tilly Norwood has a website<\/a> and social media accounts. On the former,\u00a0Van der Velden has just shared a statement addressing some of the online backlash (The Fantastic Four: First Steps star Ralph Ineson, for example, shared the news alongside a succinct “F*** off”).\u00a0<\/p>\n


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