{"id":157326,"date":"2025-09-15T00:59:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T00:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/157326\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T00:59:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T00:59:07","slug":"ike-barinholtz-wont-meet-elon-musk-before-playing-him-in-artificial-biopic-if-he-puts-me-in-a-gulag-i-hope-my-friends-are-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/157326\/","title":{"rendered":"Ike Barinholtz Won\u2019t Meet Elon Musk Before Playing Him in \u2018Artificial\u2019 Biopic: \u2018If He Puts Me in a Gulag, I Hope My Friends Are There\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

As Ike Barinholtz<\/a> prepares to portray Elon Musk<\/a> in the upcoming feature \u201cArtificial,\u201d he said he doesn\u2019t plan on reaching out to the billionaire and former Donald Trump<\/a> ally for preparation.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m Ok,\u201d Barinholtz told Variety\u2019s Marc Malkin<\/a> on the Emmys red carpet. \u201cHe\u2019s famous enough that you get it.\u201d<\/p>\n

When asked if he was nervous about portraying a public figure with a controversial platform, he jokingly said, \u201cAll I hope is that if he puts me into a gulag, it\u2019s one with all of my friends. That way we can have a party.\u201d<\/p>\n

Helmed by Luca Guadagnino<\/a>, the forthcoming film will also star Andrew Garfield<\/a> and Yura Borisov<\/a>. It has been described as a \u201ccomedic drama set in the world of artificial intelligence.\u201d<\/p>\n

Barinholtz also revealed his excitement to be collaborating with Guadagnino on the project. \u201cLuca Guadagnino is a real genius and brings stuff out of people,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Ike Barinholtz prepares to portray Elon Musk in the upcoming feature \u201cArtificial,\u201d he said he doesn\u2019t plan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[1508,1509,182,181,507,236,1510,954,1506,206,3,1507,74,1505,92],"class_list":{"0":"post-157326","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-actors","9":"tag-actresses","10":"tag-ai","11":"tag-artificial-intelligence","12":"tag-artificialintelligence","13":"tag-celebrities","14":"tag-directors","15":"tag-films","16":"tag-hollywood","17":"tag-movies","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-stars","20":"tag-technology","21":"tag-television","22":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}