Gal Gadot Defends Starring in Movie With AI Sets and Lighting Because ‘You’re Going to Work With It or Be Out of the Game’; Lawyers Spent 6 Months Ensuring AI Would Not Alter Actors
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/gal-gadot-defends-bitcoin-movie-ai-sets-lighting-1236847413/
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TheImpressiveX@piefed.social · 127 pts · 7d
fedikitty@piefed.social · 82 pts · 7d
I understand tolerating it, but buying into this "you're going to be left behind* narrative is just ridiculous. AI is NOT there yet. And it has so many objectionable downsides with the way it works right now.
BigTuffAl@lemmy.zip · 30 pts · 7d
idf brain
djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 6d
it's the narrative the cult couches their statements in. "no no, I'm not for AI, it's just the inevitable future and if you don't start using it now you're gonna be a slave so of course I'm using it now!"
As someone who is actually anti-AI, I have yet to find a single task I would need to use AI for, and have been able to strip it out of most of my daily life. With how easy it's been, I can't trust these "afraid of AI but using it" types at all.
Isbjerg@feddit.dk · 3 pts · 6d
I'm on the same page as you. Many of my colleagues in academia uses LLMs daily. Honestly, I haven't found a task that I couldn't do without it. They drank the kool-aid, I guess.
fedikitty@piefed.social · 1 pts · 6d
AI data centers have a serious fucking environmental problem. It's obscene. And just so they can train it to predict what might be plausible based in what you say? I honestly think it hit the plateau in 2024. When it isn't shoved in my face on web searches I try to give it a chance with the open source ones from a years ago that can run actually on your laptop or from brave which runs it on smaller servers in house and I again see in in face every time on it and duckduckgo, and it's just not reliable at all. And when it's a more right than wrong (god forbid you fact check it) it is jusey regurgitating what the search results say, and the websites get no views or revenue or credit. I feel like the most it is good for is fishing for ideas to try, but literally everyone is encouraged to use it like it's some oracle and I really think it is making them dumber. Honestly, oracles from ancient Greece were probably more accurate.
xSikes@feddit.online · 64 pts · 7d
So she’s thinking about herself.
So the whole art department and G&E is gone, I bet the VFX artists are still getting fucked on pay, most likely foreign production companies for tax breaks and not allowed to unionize.
This is all about money and the 1% of the industry.
tacosanonymous@mander.xyz · 27 pts · 7d
It’s fair, honestly. She’s probably running out of willing employers. Maybe it’s just me but she’s not a great actor.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 6d
It ain't just you. The director of Wonder Woman is on record saying she "worked around [Gadot's] acting limitations."
EddieEpoxy@piefed.social · 4 pts · 6d
I looked up Gal Gadot once to figure out what her background was.
She was in a hotgirl magazine (maybe Maxim?)
She made some appearances on an Israeli soap opera.
And then someone cast her in a Fast & Furious movie on the basis of that... very limited resume. Then she had Wonder Woman and some other shit, I don't remember. And even her fans admit her acting is garbage.
Like, this is the most fast-tracked-to-A-lister I think I've ever seen in my life. Someone very powerful hooked her up because there's literally no other way to make that happen, unless you're the child of someone who is already famous (e.g. Scott Eastwood, who was also fast-tracked via a Fast & Furious movie).
A-listers are very valuable to film producers. Creating an A-lister usually takes time and a whole lot of financial investment. Producers have to be convinced that an actor can pull in the numbers at the box office, as they do NOT like taking risks with their money. If they take a risk on an A-lister and that actor don't resonate with audiences, that's a lot of money gone with little to show for it.
Someone really wanted her, and specifically her, to become A-list famous, and they wanted it bad enough to risk a massive financial loss if she wasn't able to sell tickets.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 6d
Hollywood has tried to make supermodels into movie stars before. Pam Anderson is the one that jumps to mind, Have you ever seen Barb Wire?
EddieEpoxy@piefed.social · 5 pts · 6d
Pam Anderson was already a bankable celebrity by the time Barb Wire came out due to the popularity of Baywatch, and the financial investment for that particular movie was considerably lower than anything Gadot has done: Barb Wire had a $9 million budget, while Gadot's first headliner, Wonder Woman, had a budget of $149 million. Plus investors in the 90s understood if the movie didn't do well in the box office they could still make their money back on video rentals.
turdburglar@piefed.social · 3 pts · 6d
the industry is falling apart.
crews from a dry city are undercutting locals in other cities. atl and nola crews got too big for how much work is going on and now they’re fucking over other markets.
we went from a $100 housing allowance to $50 from season one to season two. rates are supposed to go UP over the life of the show, not down. you can’t even find a room in that town for less than $64/night and that’s on the monthly rate.
i think im done. i found a local job building a meow wolf type thing and im gonna keep it as long as i can.
film and tv jobs are dead and the unions are toothless.
it’s such a bummer.
xSikes@feddit.online · 1 pts · 5d
I hear ya, I was in local 600 and one producer credit away from joining their union but after the pandemic and how things were increasing going bad, I dipped out. It hurts because I’m doing something completely different now I I itch for going back but it’s not the same. It’s this weird thoughtless machine.
marighost@piefed.social · 58 pts · 7d
Silence, zionist.
Fredselfish@sh.itjust.works · 49 pts · 7d
Fuck this selfish bitch. Only thinking of herself as always. What about all the other jobs the ugly AI will take?
Sidyctism2@discuss.tchncs.de · 15 pts · 6d
Lighting crew and stage construction and design arent real people you dumdum
FatVegan@leminal.space · 8 pts · 6d
She'll singe some Beatles song and it's all good
Notyou@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 6d
Could you imagine?
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 7d
No one cares, you bigoted fuck.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 6d
Gal Gadot can be replaced with a prompt.
rozodru@piefed.world · 36 pts · 6d
between this, the covid bullshit, and her views on Gaza I imagine she would be the most insufferable person to be alone in a room with.
If there were a pulse on society her finger would be several hundred kilometers away from it.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 5d
Why are we asking typically ignorant and uneducated actors for any political opinions? Before her 'acting' she was a beauty contest winner. Seriously the best we can do?
orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts · 26 pts · 7d
According to the Internet, Gadot has a net worth of $50 million, which was surprisingly low to me, but more than enough to walk away with and retire. These people are all robots. Everything has a price.
altphoto@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 6d
I gotta figure out how to up my net worth to 50 million. Maybe if I worked one more hour pay day...
givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 7d
So fucking selfish...
Basically saying the only part that matters, is the part she does.
She's never even been good at it, she was a cam model that got slotted into some movies because of her looks.
Schmoo@slrpnk.net · 18 pts · 6d
I don't know why anyone expects actors who have never demonstrated principles before will suddenly develop them now.
Feathercrown@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 5d
It's like people forget they can tell how someone will act by how they have before
Archangel1313@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 6d
I hope this bombs worse than Gaza.
roofuskit@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 6d
When all you have is physical beauty and you know it's fleeting...
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 13 pts · 6d
TBF I wouldn’t want to work with Gal Gadot either if I were a real human.
0x0@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 5d
Why do they keep platforming the zionist who can't act?
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 5d
Because attractive
architect@thelemmy.club · 1 pts · 5d
Nah can’t just be that.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 6d
wow.. this person really is clueless about how to hold onto a career. These "actors" really can't help themselves.
Bongles@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 6d
It's like the developers that praise AI because it's making their job easier. Yeah Bud, it sure is right now.
Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 6d
The more I see of Gal Gadot the more I sympathize with Rachel Zegler having to work with her. It still doesn't excuse Snow White or her annoying interviews, but still.
Tiger666@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 6d
Anyone who thinks this zionist can act needs to check their meds. I would get more entertainment from watching a rock than watching her.
0x0@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 5d
I've got good news for you.
Tiger666@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 5d
Great movie, if only living rocks existed. Living rock 2028!
bowsertattoo@piefed.social · 7 pts · 6d
weak
MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com · 6 pts · 6d
I don't want to click on a BS AI consensus building article, does anyone know what movie they're referring to?
TheImpressiveX@piefed.social · 6 pts · 6d
"Bitcoin", directed by Doug Liman.
Microtonal_Banana@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 5d
She seems to be quite talented at being on the wrong side of important issues.
reddit_sux@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 5d
Of course the Zionist would think less of human beings and their talents and efforts.
roserose56@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 5d
And you are sure they won't alter actors.....
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 5d
Shut up, zionist. Wait, you're peddling crypto? Maybe let's chat. I like scams and getting scammed.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 5d
how can you put AI lighting and sets in and not affect the actors? what are you lighting in a movie other than the actors? The sets? Well they're AI. the only thing left is actors
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 6d
I don't like the AI tide either, but this isn't entirely out of line.
The argument against it is that one should always use practical effects. Okay, I get that. But what about movies like Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Space Jam, which incorporated live-action actors into cartoon worlds? Should that not be allowed?
Then the argument becomes "well that's fine if it's hand drawn." Okay, but you have a lot of anime and western animation where computer generated imagery (or CGI) was used for complex movement. It still requires human hands, but AI just kinda speeds that up a bit.
I don't think movies shot with practical effects are going anywhere. Drama is my favourite genre of film, and that requires no AI. But for sci-fi and fantasy, I think you can get away with it here and there.
djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 6d
Who Framed Roger Rabbit is kinda an insane example to use here, most of that movie is actually practical effects. If you've never looked at a behind the scenes, I'd really recommend it, because some of the contraptions they constructed to have some of the shots done all in camera are truly one of a kind.
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 6d
Yeah, I had no idea, so, my bad. But I mean — you've got your all-film, no animation, no CGI, no AI movie. Then for a step up, you have some practical effects with some really brilliant trickery. I'd say like the first Star Wars, or, I suppose, Who Framed Roger Rabbit if that indeed applies. Then of course you have Disney and Japanese animated films, and CGI stuff like Toy Story and Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within... and, I suppose, eventually we'll have more AI in movies.
I don't like it either, but I feel like it's inevitable. I do not count myself among the ones who support this future or will go out to see these movies.
I also remember how Bruce Lee was killed doing stunts, and then so was his son Brandon. If one day we can say "stunt performers used to die but don't anymore because we changed the way we do special effects," that would be a good thing, albeit with tradeoffs. I'm not trying to strawman here. I'm just a guy who likes movies. And while I do like some animation (mostly, from Japan — and it feels like they'll be on the forefront of this, though the big AI tech bros seem to be American or European), my favourite type of films are the ones with real actors. (Never mind that my all-time favourite film is animated. 君の名は。, or your name. outside Japan. I'm sure it has some CGI. Since it came out in 2016, I don't think it was made with AI.)
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 6d
NB: Bruce Lee didn’t die performing stunts, but of a brain edema.
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 5d
Huh. I remember when Brandon Lee died, they said he went out the same way his father did and that was the big tragedy of it.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 5d
It was more the very young age iirc. Bruce was a boxer before he was a film star and was no stranger to getting hit in the head, sadly.