If the actors and screenwriters on strike in Hollywood lose the battle to regulate artificial intelligence, the film industry “will only be the first to fall,” warned American actor Peter Sarsgaard when receiving the acting award in Venice.
“If we lose this battle, our industry will be just the first of many others to fall,” declared the actor upon receiving his award for The Memory of Michel Franco.
Medicine or the conduct of war could in turn be entrusted to artificial intelligence, which “opens the way to atrocities,” he added.
“It looks like science fiction”
Regarding the Hollywood strike, which he supports, “all issues of fair pay are important,” but the use of artificial intelligence is a “terrifying” prospect, the actor said.
“It sounds like science fiction, but we can all agree that an actor and a screenwriter are people,” he added, emphasizing “the sacred experience of being human.”
Sarsgaard won Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival for his role as a man suffering from dementia and memory loss in the film. Memory By Michel Franco. The 52-year-old actor stars alongside American star Jessica Chastain.
Shedding light on patients’ daily lives
This moving film aims to show how patients suffering from dementia can continue to live full lives, including romantic relationships, while raising the difficult question of their ability to make decisions.
The actor also spoke with patients and nursing staff to prepare for his role. “So often in movies we see dementia in its final stages and it paralyzes us with fear, and I really didn’t want to show that,” he said.
Peter Sarsgaard, who is also the husband of actress and director Maggie Gyllenhaal with whom he had two children, recently lost an uncle to a brain disease.
Born on March 7, 1971, Peter Sarsgaard saw his career blossom with the role of a rapist in Boys do not Cry. She then starred in a series of eclectic roles, including box office hits like the batman AND Night and day with Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz.
He has also appeared in independent films and has worked alongside top directors such as Sam Mendes (jug head) and Woody Allen (Jasmine Blue). He also starred in the film directed by his wife. The lost daughterwhich won the best screenplay award at Venice in 2021.
Source: BFM TV
