In the days since she made her entrance during a Zurich Film Festival presentation last weekend, Tilly Norwood has been the talk of the town. But the AI-generated actress, who is on her way to becoming a household name despite only appearing in one two-minute comedy sketch, hasn’t yet conducted an interview. Variety asked and was told by a publicist for Particle6, …
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Image Credit: Getty Images for CMT Maggie Baugh has been on the rise in country music for years. While she’s a multi-talented musician and performer in other genres, country has become her staple, and fans can’t get enough of her — especially since she began traveling with Keith Urban for various gigs as his guitarist and violinist. Since Keith’s divorce from …
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Scary. Terrifying. Deeply misguided. Those were among the visceral reactions this week from Emily Blunt, Whoopi Goldberg, Natasha Lyonne and many other actors and filmmakers over the sudden fame of Tilly Norwood. Norwood isn’t real — the brunette who appears in a comedy sketch on her Instagram page is in fact a computer-generated composite. “I may be AI, but I’m …
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President Donald Trump’s latest salvo against Hollywood’s runaway production landed Monday morning on Truth Social, where he pledged to impose a “100% Tariff on any and all movies made outside of the United States.” In the post, the president accused foreign countries of “stealing” America’s moviemaking business and took shots at California Gov. Gavin Newsom for failing to keep productions …
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Fran Drescher’s ‘The Nanny’ co-stars attend her Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony and more star snaps Peter Marc Jacobson, Lisa Ann Walter, Fran Drescher, Nicholle Tom and Madeline Zima attend the ceremony honoring Drescher with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Hollywood, California. Getty Images Dame Helen Mirren and Cara Delevingne share an embrace at the Stella …
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Tilly Norwood is a London-based actress with about 40,000 Instagram followers. Also, she’s not real — she is an AI-generated character created by Xicoia, the AI division of the production company Particle6. Eline Van der Velden, the Dutch producer who founded Particle6, introduced the idea of Norwood at the Zurich Film Festival in September. Van der Velden is currently seeking …
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Several talent agents are interested in signing Tilly Norwood, according to Deadline. Problem is, Tilly Norwood isn’t a real person. She’s an AI creation from Eline Van der Velden, a Dutch comedian and technologist who developed the “actress” with her production company, Particle6, through its new AI talent studio offshoot called Xicoia. At the Zurich Summit this past weekend, Van …
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Getty Images Oscar-nominated actress Emily Blunt called the AI creation terrifying Hollywood is not rolling out the red carpet for Tilly Norwood – an “AI actor” that has been causing a stir after its Dutch creators said the synthetic performer is in talks with talent agencies. Norwood could be mistaken for a young, aspiring actress when one glances at its …
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It’s a busy start to the week for Donald Trump. On Monday, the president sat down at the White House with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, hoping to persuade him to embrace his plan to end the war in Gaza. Later that same afternoon, he met with the top four leaders in Congress, looking to reach a deal to fund …
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