Nicolas Cagealready lost his face toJohn TravoltainFace/Off so he’s not about to let AI steal his identity too.
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He continued, “There is a new technology in town.
It’s a technology that I didn’t have to contend with for 42 years until recently.
Nicolas Cage at the Newport Beach Film Festival.Tiffany Rose/Getty
However, Cage’s concerns about the technology go beyond wages.
“This technology wants to take your instrument,” Cage warned his fellow actors.
“Wearethe instruments as film actors.
Nicolas Cage in ‘The Flash’.Warner Bros. Pictures
We are not hiding behind guitars and drums.”
He concluded, “Protect your instrument.”
“When I went to the picture, it was me fighting a giant spider.
I did not do that,” Cage toldYahoo Entertainment.
“That was not what I did.”
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TheFace/Offstaraddressed the subject againduring a July conversation withThe New Yorker.
“I’m terrified of that,” the veteran actor said of AI.
“I’ve been very vocal about it.”
Is it going to be replaced?
Is it going to be transmogrified?
Wheres the heartbeat going to be?
I mean, what are you going to do with my body and my face when I’m dead?
I don’t want you to do anything with it!”
