Maggie Gyllenhaal Reveals Why She Scrapped an AI Experiment with Dakota Johnson as Marilyn Monroe
The filmmaker said the test version stripped Johnson’s performance of humanity and raised concerns about AI’s environmental and financial costs.
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Actress and director Maggie Gyllenhaal abandoned the use of artificial video-generative intelligence during the production of "Flesh Impact", a 17-minute short story about Marilyn Monroe. According to her, the technology was tested to recreate the actress, but the result fell short of the one obtained with Dakota Johnson. Tom Holland is going to 'retire' from Spider-Man? Actor signals possible farewell of character after new film; understand Scr…
The American chaires this year's Venice Film Festival jury, but also features a 17-minute short film about Marilyn Monroe. In "Flesh Impact", Dakota Johnson plays the legendary star in her golden age and Ellen Burstyn embodies her as a major, imagining what it would have been like if she hadn't died in 1962. "The people who commissioned this project asked me to use AI," said Gyllenhaal in a talk about artificial intelligence in Venice. "They use…
Maggie Gyllenhaal Says She Tried Using AI to Turn Dakota Johnson Into Marilyn Monroe for Short ‘Flesh Impact’ — Then Scrapped It: ‘Fundamentally Did Not Work’
Venice jury president Maggie Gyllenhaal revealed that she experimented with artificial intelligence to transform Dakota Johnson into Marilyn Monroe for her short film Flesh Impact which plays on the Lido. But she ended up scrapping it because she felt that it stripped Johnson’s performance of the very humanity that made it compelling. Speaking at the […]
Maggie Gyllenhaal Tried Using AI to Turn Dakota Johnson Into Marilyn Monroe, and It Failed Completely
Artificial intelligence has become an increasingly divisive topic across Hollywood, with filmmakers split between embracing its potential and rejecting it entirely on both creative and ethical grounds. Few recent stories capture that tension quite as directly as one director’s candid admission about her own brief experiment with the technology. Maggie Gyllenhaal, serving as jury president...
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