AI is advancing at a quick pace leading Robin Wright to sound the alarm that it will take jobs in Hollywood.
In a chat with Deadline, she said, “It frightens me for our industry and it’s such a dichotomy. It’s tough because I know it’s going to help in the medical world tremendously. But everywhere else, people are going to lose jobs.”
However, the job losses will not be in the acting sector, Robin believed. “People say: ’Well, don’t you think that it’ll take over acting?’ I don’t think it ever can because I don’t think it will ever get the emotion in the eyes. You’ll never feel the resonance coming from that actor.”
In a separate discussion, the Forrest Gump actress reflected on the pay gap she had on the hit Netflix show The House of Cards.
Recalling her conversation with the executives, Robin said at the Monte-Carlo TV Festival, “They literally said: ‘Well, we can’t pay you the same as an actor, so we’re going to divvy it up to make it equal [and] make you executive producer.”
“And then you can direct, and then we’ll give you three different paychecks.’ I said: ‘Why can’t you pay me the same as an actor?’ And they said: “Because you didn’t win an Academy Award,” she concluded.
