“People just started worrying about that? I asked about that a long time ago. The first time I got scanned for George Lucas [for The Phantom Menace] I was like, ‘What’s this for?'” he said....
“People just started worrying about that? I asked about that a long time ago. The first time I got scanned for George Lucas [for The Phantom Menace] I was like, ‘What’s this for?'” he said. “George and I are good friends, so we kind of had a laugh about it because I thought he was doing it because he had all those old guys in Episode I, and if something happened to them, he still wanted to put ‘em in the movie.”
Jackson noted that he’s had similar experiences throughout his time playing Nick Fury in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, performances that come amid a number of studios using de-aging technology. “Ever since I’ve been in the Marvel Universe, every time you change costumes in a Marvel movie, they scan you. Ever since I did Captain Marvel, and they did the Lola project where they de-aged me and everything else, it’s like, ‘Well, I guess they can do this anytime they want to do it if they really want to!'” the Secret Invasion star recalled.
That is something the actor says “could be something to worry about” and has made him more careful when it comes to the language in his contracts. “Future actors should do what I always do when I get a contract, and it has the words ‘in perpetuity’ and ‘known and unknown’ on it: I cross that shit out,” he says. “It’s my way of saying, ‘No, I do not approve of this.'”
Unfortunately, opting out of these "in perpetuity" clauses as Jackson does may not be something many aspiring actors feel they have the prestige to get away with while still progressing their...
Unfortunately, opting out of these "in perpetuity" clauses as Jackson does may not be something many aspiring actors feel they have the prestige to get away with while still progressing their careers.
I hope that over the next decade we are going to start to see a lot of laws proposed or enacted in order to protect workers in all fields from being completely replaced by AI. Either that, or the world is destined for mass unemployment.
“People just started worrying about that? I asked about that a long time ago. The first time I got scanned for George Lucas [for The Phantom Menace] I was like, ‘What’s this for?'” he said. “George and I are good friends, so we kind of had a laugh about it because I thought he was doing it because he had all those old guys in Episode I, and if something happened to them, he still wanted to put ‘em in the movie.”
Jackson noted that he’s had similar experiences throughout his time playing Nick Fury in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, performances that come amid a number of studios using de-aging technology. “Ever since I’ve been in the Marvel Universe, every time you change costumes in a Marvel movie, they scan you. Ever since I did Captain Marvel, and they did the Lola project where they de-aged me and everything else, it’s like, ‘Well, I guess they can do this anytime they want to do it if they really want to!'” the Secret Invasion star recalled.
That is something the actor says “could be something to worry about” and has made him more careful when it comes to the language in his contracts. “Future actors should do what I always do when I get a contract, and it has the words ‘in perpetuity’ and ‘known and unknown’ on it: I cross that shit out,” he says. “It’s my way of saying, ‘No, I do not approve of this.'”
Unfortunately, opting out of these "in perpetuity" clauses as Jackson does may not be something many aspiring actors feel they have the prestige to get away with while still progressing their careers.
I hope that over the next decade we are going to start to see a lot of laws proposed or enacted in order to protect workers in all fields from being completely replaced by AI. Either that, or the world is destined for mass unemployment.
I do wonder if/when it will get to the point that movies are not real people CGI with voice actors to avoid paying for likenesses.