{"id":212918,"date":"2025-10-09T23:32:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T23:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/212918\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T23:32:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T23:32:11","slug":"read-this-betty-gilpin-writes-letter-to-ai-ingenue-tilly-norwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/212918\/","title":{"rendered":"Read This: Betty Gilpin writes letter to AI ing\u00e9nue Tilly Norwood"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the week-and-a-half since her Zurich Summit \u201cdebut<\/a>,\u201d so-called AI actor Tilly Norwood has been met with concern<\/a>, fear, and disgust from the human actor community. Today, in a letter published in <\/a>The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>, Betty Gilpin (who played an AI-battling nun in Mrs. Davis) shared some sage wisdom with Norwood. \u201cWhen I was your age\u2026 well, wait, no. You are both infant and immortal, like Thor in a diaper,\u201d Gilpin writes. \u201cI mean, when I was starting out in my career like you, this very thing happened. An actress older than me pulled me aside and gave me advice.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the letter, Gilpin takes on the daunting task of explaining the quintessential humanness of performance. Explaining how she first fell in love with theater as a teenager, she says, \u201cTilly, you never had to be 14, so I\u2019ll tell you what google can\u2019t. It feels like your soul gets a broken glass enema. You go from curious about this marvelous world to drowning in un-marvelous you. Who am I? How should I be? Am I alone? Your human brain answers \u2018no one,\u2019 \u2018invisible\u2019 and \u2018yes.’\u201d But while watching a bad play, one transcendent actor \u201cwas so good that, impossibly, I left myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Gilpin concedes, an AI \u201cactor\u201d can remain young and beautiful forever<\/a>, without the pesky interference of aging and emotion to transgress or interrupt its \u201ccareer.\u201d An AI character will say and do exactly what its handler tells it to\u2014\u201dProperty without zits or opinions,\u201d as Gilpin puts it. She wonders \u201cif an eyelash or toothshine of mine from a screenshot twenty years ago is one speck of your billions of Hot Young Actresses mosaic that is your not-real face.\u201d Gilpin lays out a solid and beautifully articulated argument for the power of connection, admitting that she, too, is \u201cmade up of a million bits of plagiarism of every person I\u2019ve had the privilege to come across.\u201d But the difference is that Gilpin draws from a rich well of experience over the course of a lifetime, and Tilly Norwood draws from computer programming. You can read the full letter for yourself here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Betty Gilpin is stepping into Cole Escola’s kitten heels at Oh, Mary!<\/a>Here’s your first look at Betty Gilpin and Taylor Kitsch in Netflix’s brutal American Primeval<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the week-and-a-half since her Zurich Summit \u201cdebut,\u201d so-called AI actor Tilly Norwood has been met with concern,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-212918","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-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212918","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=212918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}