One of the more recent attempts to apply this technology comes in the form of AI ‘actor’ <\/a>Tilly Norwood, which was created by Xicoia, an AI talent studio as part of Eline Van der Velden’s production company Particle6.<\/p>\n Unveiled at the Zurich Film Festival accompanied by claims that other studios were developing similar products<\/a>, Norwood was greeted with much revulsion as people didn’t really warm to it.<\/p>\n Among those who criticised the idea of an AI ‘actor’ was Oppenheimer star Emily Blunt, who was shown the technology and called it ‘terrifying’<\/a>, urging the creators of the AI not to destroy the ‘human connection’ in entertainment.<\/p>\n “Does it disappoint me? I don\u2019t know how to quite answer it, other than to say how terrifying this is,” Blunt said when she was asked about the AI product last year, and was even less happy about the idea when she was shown it.<\/p>\n “No, are you serious? That\u2019s an AI? Good Lord, we\u2019re screwed. That is really, really scary, Come on, agencies, don\u2019t do that. Please stop. Please stop taking away our human connection.”<\/p>\n Unfortunately for those who worry about the human connection, the AI ‘actor’ is going to be in a movie as The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> says that Particle6 is going to put it in a film<\/a> called Misaligned.<\/p>\n Van der Velden said: \u201cOur work this year has proven something we suspected all along.<\/p>\n “AI can support premium narrative filmmaking, but only with substantial amounts of human craft, skill, judgement and time. <\/p>\n “That\u2019s not a limitation of the technology. That\u2019s the point. <\/p>\n “The filmmakers who thrive in the next decade will be the ones who bring decades of storytelling instinct to these new tools, and Misaligned is where we put that to work at feature scale.”<\/p>\n The film is going to be an AI ‘coming of age’ story set in something called the ‘Tillyverse’, which is named after the AI ‘actor’.<\/p>\n Misaligned, which is apparently a comedy-drama, is going to follow a disembodied AI which comes into contact with ‘a seductive rogue bot from the dark web’ which makes her ‘more terrifyingly human’.<\/p>\n Van der Velden suggested that while AI ‘actors’ may not invade real productions, she thought ‘you\u2019ll get real actors wanting to be in the AI genre’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tilly Norwood, an AI generated ‘actor’, is going to be put into a film despite heavy criticism of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":681133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[733,6491,96,2332,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-681132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-film","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"This](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/aHR0cHM6Ly9ldS1pbWFnZXMuY29udGVudHN0YWNrLmNvbS92My9hc3NldHMvYmx0Y2Q3NGFjYzFkMGE5OWYzYS9ibHQ1OWNlODUx.webp\"\/)
This is Tilly Norwood, it’s an AI ‘actor’ that’s going to be put into a movie (Instagram\/tillynorwood)<\/p>\n![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/aHR0cHM6Ly9ldS1pbWFnZXMuY29udGVudHN0YWNrLmNvbS92My9hc3NldHMvYmx0Y2Q3NGFjYzFkMGE5OWYzYS9ibHQ3YjRhMWIz.webp\"\/)
The AI has been called ‘terrifying’ and prompted actual actors to ask agencies not to engage with it (Instagram\/@tillynorwood)<\/p>\n