00:00Andrew Garfield is opening up about his experience playing OpenAI co-founder and
00:04CEO Sam Altman in the upcoming film Artificial. The actor got candid about portraying the
00:11controversial executive who has helped spearhead the AI revolution. Garfield said in a new profile
00:17in Esquire, I don't know this person, to be clear. I don't know Sam Altman. I've never met him. I
00:22was
00:22going off of the script and court transcripts and interviews and research, and we are telling a
00:27story. But I think anyone who takes on that level of responsibility for a company or a technology
00:32that you know is going to do a hell of a lot of damage to the soul of humanity must
00:36have a certain
00:36ability to dissociate. The actor went on to say that he's not typically drawn to playing characters
00:41like Altman, because in order to relate to the character, he has to access parts of himself he
00:45doesn't like. He said, there's something there for me to integrate, because I'm so afraid of being it.
00:50He continued, but then the argument is that if we weren't all less rejecting in the first place,
00:55less that's not us, then Donald Trump wouldn't have been voted in twice, and Nigel Farage wouldn't
01:01be anywhere near a position of power. Whereas if we go, okay, interesting, where am I in a wannabe
01:06fascist, grifter, opportunist, power-hungry, ethicless, spineless, pig? We can identify that
01:12this is the bad part of us. We know this in ourselves. Artificial sees Garfield play Altman during a
01:17five-day open AI leadership crisis when Altman was fired and then reinstated as CEO. The film was
01:23famously dropped by Amazon MGM Studios, which developed and financed the project. Artificial
01:28was then rescued by Neon, which plans to release the film sometime later this year in order to
01:33qualify for this year's Oscar race. For more on this story, go to THR.com. This is the Hollywood Reporter
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