“I hate that damn word”: Emily Blunt rails

“I hate that damn word”: Emily Blunt rails



Emily Blunt returns The boy of autumn

Emily Blunt will return to theaters in a few days. The actress is one of the stars of The boy of autumn, the new film by David Leitch. She plays Jody Moreno, a woman who wants to direct her first feature film but loses the film’s star when he disappears. Colt Seavers, a stuntmanthen volunteers go look for it. Ryan Gosling was cast as Colt Seavers The boy of autumn. Together with him, Emily Blunt is currently promoting David Leitch’s film. Jody Moreno’s interpreter took advantage of this target algorithms used for try to predict the success of a possible feature film.

The actress shatters the algorithms

It was during an interview given to the Italian edition of Vanity Fair that Emily Blunt lashed out against algorithms. She then explained that, in her opinion, no studio should make a decision make a film or not after consulting an algorithm. For the actress, such a process simply should have nothing to do with art:

Some new things frustrate me: algorithms, for example. I hate that damn word, sorry for the bad word! How can all this be associated with art and content creation? How can we let Him determine what will and won’t work?

The actress revealed herself to the general public thanks to her role in The devil wears Prada he followed taking the example ofOppenheimer To illustrate his point: “I was in a 3 1/2 hour film about a physicist, who had the impact that he had… the algorithms probably couldn’t have figured it out. » As a reminder, Oppenheimer he rebelled almost a billion dollars at the global box office. The film thus became the biggest success of Christopher Nolan’s career.

Ryan Gosling agrees and outbids him

Emily Blunt therefore hopes that studios will stop relying on this process: “I hope that Oppenheimer and similar projects are not considered anomalies, and that we will stop translating creative experiences into diagrams. » Present during the same interview, Ryan Gosling confirmed the words of his playing partner. He explained that, now, in choosing his next project, he has almost opted for the opposite of what an algorithm would consider future success:

You can’t beat an algorithm at its job. And, paradoxically, it forces me to be more human, to choose “homemade” projects like The Fall Guy, which is based on personal experiences, our footprints and our stories, which we poured into the characters.

The words of Emily Blunt and Ryan Gosling also refer to those of Brian Helgeland. As explained a few days ago, the director recently revealed ita sequence of Knight had been rejected by Netflix because the platform’s algorithm estimated that it wouldn’t work. Hopefully studios will stop using this practice to decide which projects they want to develop. For their part, Emily Blunt and Ryan Gosling will return 1um next May in the rooms. It is on this date that it will be released The boy of autumn In France.

Source: Cine Serie

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