In his inestimably honest way, Harrison Ford answered the most common question fans of Indiana Jones and Star Wars fans alike in his famous roles in both blockbuster franchises.
Ford, 80, was <a href="https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a43965150/harrison-ford-indiana-jones-interview/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interviewed</a> by Esquire reporter Ryan D&#8217;Agostino, who asked him what kinds of questions Star Wars superfans asked him.
“Well, they usually ask me, ‘If there was a fight between Han Solo and Indiana Jones, who would f***in’ win?’ And I say, ‘Me, a**hole! I don’t want to f***ing make s*** up like that. I mean, what are you asking me that crap for?’”
Ford played Han Solo for the first time in the original Star Wars in 1977; he later played Indiana Jones for the first time in “Raiders of the Lost Ark” in 1981.
“We look for ourselves, and we look for useful information to help us navigate our f***ing lives and the world that we’re living in,” Ford said of people who love movies and books. “We don’t realize we’re looking for that. But we’re looking to pull out of a fantasy something that’s useful to us. And what’s useful to us is to emotionally participate in things outside of our own lives.”
Ford spoke of the new Indiana Jones movie, “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” — which will be his last — and what it’s like to be 80. One scene had Ford riding a horse on a subway platform, and as he finished the scene, he felt hands on his legs.
He recalled, “I thought, what the f***? Like I was being attacked by gropers. I look down and there’s three stunt guys there making sure I didn’t fall off the stirrup. They said, ‘Oh, we were just afraid because we thought, you know, and bah bah bah bah’. And I said, Leave me the f*** alone, I’m an old man getting off a horse and I want it to look like that!”
Asked why he hasn’t written his autobiography, Ford explained that he had encountered Elton John at Stella McCartney’s fiftieth-birthday party, and John asked him why he hadn’t done so. “I said, ‘I thought about it, but I decided I’m not going to do it, because I didn’t want to tell the truth,’” Ford remembered. “And I saw the disappointment on his face — Elton’s a pretty genuine guy, you know. I wanted to mollify him, so I said, ‘But I didn’t want to lie, either.’ So that’s the reason I’m not writing a book: because I don’t want to tell the truth, and I don’t want to lie.”

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Actor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/harrison-ford">Harrison Ford</a> is on the interview circuit promoting his new “Indiana Jones” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/movies">movie</a>, and during a recent conversation admitted he would have been a better father if he hadn’t been famous.
The 80-year-old knew immediately after he delivered the line to a writer at <a href="https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a43965150/harrison-ford-indiana-jones-interview/">Esquire</a> that it would make headlines, just like his previous “I know who the f*** I am” comment earlier in May following his interview with The Hollywood Reporter.
The interviewer was talking about how “becoming a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/parents">parent</a> changes a person,” and how it’s easy to imagine taking a bullet for your own child. That’s when Ford said, “I can tell you this: If I’d been less successful, I’d probably be a better parent.”
After acknowledging that this thought could go viral, Ford continued, referencing the &#8220;I know who the f*** I am&#8221; line. 
“Which I still get s*** about from my wife, like I don’t take mental health seriously. I do take mental health seriously. I was trying to say, as I explained to her: It’s that I accommodate all of the flaws that people go to psychiatrists to accommodate, because I accept my flaws.”
The actor said, “I accept my flaws and my failures—I don’t accept them, I own them. And certainly the more constant gardener is the better parent, and I’ve been out of town, up my own a**, for most of my life.”
The “Indiana Jones” star first became a father in the 1960s with the births of sons Benjamin, 56, and Willard, 54, before he began his acting career. He shares those two children with his first wife, illustrator Mary Marquardt. 
Next, Ford had two children with his second wife Melissa Mathison. The pair welcomed son Malcolm, 35, and daughter Georgia, 32, in 1987 and 1990, respectively. 
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Ford and his current wife, actress Calista Flockhart, adopted a son. Liam is now 21.
The actor has addressed the challenges of parenting children at different stages of his life and career in the past. 
&#8220;My older children have taught me a lot,&#8221; Ford told <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/harrison-ford-i-m-in-it-for-the-money-1903806.html">The Independent</a> during a 2010 interview. &#8220;My first child was born when I was 25; I reckon I&#8217;m a little better at [parenting] now.&#8221;
At the time, Ford insisted he felt “like the father of a 9-year-old” despite being 67 at the time. “Yeah, obviously, I&#8217;m getting older but I don&#8217;t relate to it very much. It doesn&#8217;t interest me as something to dwell on,” he said.
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Actor Harrison Ford recalled one thing that he is apparently &#8220;known for&#8221; on film sets — and while he admitted that it wasn&#8217;t actually the best thing to be known for, he shrugged it off: &#8220;But hey, s*** happens.&#8221;
Ford, 80, explained that he had earned a reputation for shutting down film sets – usually because he had injured himself while shooting the movie — and his latest offering, &#8220;Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,&#8221; was no exception.
The new film in the iconic franchise showcases Ford both at his current age and, through the use of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-little-spooky-harrison-ford-80-reacts-to-de-aging-scene-in-new-indiana-jones-5-movie" target="_blank" rel="noopener">de-aging</a> technology, as a <a href="https://movieweb.com/indiana-jones-5-director-explains-why-the-dial-of-destiny-opens-with-a-de-aged-harrison-ford/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">much younger man</a> fighting the Nazis – and Ford joked during a <a href="https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a43965150/harrison-ford-indiana-jones-interview/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recent interview</a> with Esquire that he really wanted to let his age show in the parts of the movie where it was relevant to do so.
While filming a scene in which he rides through the streets of New York City (circa 1969) in a ticker-tape parade, Ford said that he had noticed the stunt workers <a href="https://variety.com/2023/film/news/harrison-ford-yelled-indiana-jones-5-stuntmen-leave-me-alone-1235629150/?cx_testId=48&amp;cx_testVariant=cx_1&amp;cx_artPos=0#cxrecs_s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hovering</a> a little bit closer than he&#8217;d like.
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&#8220;I thought, &#8216;What the f***?&#8217; Like I was being attacked by gropers. I look down and there’s three stunt guys there making sure I didn’t fall off the stirrup. They said, &#8216;Oh, we were just afraid because we thought, you know, and bah bah bah bah.&#8217; And I said, &#8216;Leave me the f*** alone … Leave me alone, I’m an old man getting off a horse and I want it to look like that!'&#8221; he explained.
But then, while filming a fight scene with co-star Mads Mikkelsen, Ford&#8217;s age showed itself in another way – when he pulled the subscapularis muscle in his right shoulder and filming was shut down entirely for two weeks. Ford had to sit out for an additional six weeks while he was recovering from the injury — and he wryly noted that it wasn&#8217;t the first time something like that had happened.
&#8220;Yeah, well, I’m also known for shutting movies down because I get hurt, which is not something you want to be known for,&#8221; the &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; actor said. &#8220;But hey, s*** happens.&#8221;

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Harrison Ford Recalls The Unfortunate Thing He’s ‘Known For’ On Film Sets: ‘But Hey, S*** Happens’

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The first Indiana Jones movie, Raiders of the Lost Ark, came out in 1981. Back then, Harrison Ford was 38.
Now Ford&#8217;s 80 years old, not exactly the age of an action hero. And the fifth installment of the movie is not faring well with critics.
&#8220;It’s all pretty goofy and laborious over its 142-minute running time,&#8221; Peter Howell of the Toronto Star <a href="https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/movies/review/2023/05/21/indiana-jones-and-the-dial-of-destiny-neither-triumph-nor-disaster.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>.
The Rolling Stone review was even more harsh. &#8220;[Y]ou either die an intellectual-property hero trapped in amber, or you live long enough to see yourself riding a fake horse against a green-screened subway background when most of your peers have slowed down.&#8221;
&#8220;[Y]ou’re largely left with what you imagine you’d get if you programmed a 21st century A.I. program to write up nostalgia-bait for the children of the late 20th century,&#8221; critic David Fear <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-reviews/indiana-jones-and-the-dial-of-destiny-review-harrison-ford-phoebe-waller-bridge-cannes-nazis-james-mangold-1234736151/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>.
&#8220;Ford still has the fortitude to play the part. But just having him show up to crack whips and crack wise in the name of bringing back that old Indy thrills-spills-chills magic isn’t enough of an excuse to have him don the fedora one last time. &#8216;Things move forward,&#8217; one character tells Jones. &#8216;And sometimes, they move backward.&#8217; Someone may have turned the dial a little too much on the latter’s side this time around,&#8221; Fear added.
While the movie is big, the writing is small.
&#8220;[O]ne can feel the four credited screenwriters grasping at inspiration and coming up short. What they did manage to make would be perfectly fine as a standalone adventure film starring some other character, but it’s not worthy of the whip,&#8221; Vanity Fair critic Richard Lawson <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/05/hunting-treasures-punching-nazis-indiana-jones-is-back-in-the-dial-of-destiny" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>.
With a running time of nearly 2:30, reviewers said the $300 million movie is a bloated mess with endless chase scenes. &#8220;That nonstop pacing might sound ideal, but it’s mostly an exhausting slog,&#8221; David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/indiana-jones-and-the-dial-of-destiny-review-harrison-ford-james-mangold-1235495914/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>.
And so much phony CGI. &#8220;Part of what dims the enjoyment of this concluding chapter is just how glaringly fake so much of it looks,&#8221; Rooney wrote.
Maybe the filmmakers should have stopped at four installments. While some reviews said Ford still has his trademark swagger, one reviewer wrote: &#8220;I&#8217;m not sure how many fans want to see Indiana Jones as a broken, helpless old man who cowers in the corner while his patronising goddaughter takes the lead, but that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re given, and it&#8217;s as bleak as it sounds.&#8221;
(Disclosure: The Daily Wire has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/introducing-dw-kids" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced plans</a> for kids entertainment content.)
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/harrison-ford-says-new-indiana-jones-film-will-be-his-last" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harrison Ford</a> got emotional at the Cannes Film Festival following the screening of his latest &#8220;Indiana Jones&#8221; film, &#8220;Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.&#8221;
At the Palais in France on Thursday night, the star-studded audience gave the 80-year-old actor a five-minute standing ovation after the final credits rolled on the film, the <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/indiana-jones-cannes-premiere-harrison-ford-phoebe-waller-bridge-1235494757/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hollywood Reporter</a> reported.
During the ovation, video showed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/al-pacino-talks-about-that-role-he-regrets-turning-down-takes-dig-at-harrison-ford" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ford&#8217;s</a> eyes watering up as he blew kisses and gave a thumbs-up to the group.
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Ahead of the screening, a highlight reel of Ford&#8217;s extensive career in Hollywood was shown that included clips from such films as &#8220;Star Wars,&#8221; &#8220;Blade Runner,&#8221; &#8220;Working Girl,&#8221; and the other &#8220;Indiana Jones&#8221; movies. It brought another round of applause from the audience.
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Huge ovation following a surprise clips reel featuring Fords career &#8211;<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cannes2023?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Cannes2023</a> <a href="https://t.co/bMhNW05WHW">pic.twitter.com/bMhNW05WHW</a>
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Speaking to the room afterward, Ford said, &#8220;They say when you&#8217;re about to die you see your life flash before your eyes, and I just saw my life flash before my eyes — a great part of my life but not all of my life.&#8221;
&#8220;My life has been enabled by my lovely wife, who has supported my passion and my dreams, and I&#8217;m grateful,&#8221; he added, recognizing his wife actress Calista Flockhart.
He then turned his focus on the audience and said, &#8220;I love you, too.&#8221;
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&#8220;Thank you,&#8221; he added. &#8220;You&#8217;ve given my life purpose and meaning, and I&#8217;m grateful for that. So grateful to have the opportunity to work with artists like Jim, Phoebe, even Mads.&#8221;
Technology was used in the film to de-age <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-little-spooky-harrison-ford-80-reacts-to-de-aging-scene-in-new-indiana-jones-5-movie" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ford</a> for the opening scene, a move the actor recently called &#8220;a little spooky&#8221; because of how realistic it looks.
&#8220;They have this artificial intelligence program that can go through every foot of film that Lucasfilm owns,&#8221; <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/ai-has-keanu-reeves-harrison-ford-elon-musks-ex-girlfriend-grimes-at-odds-over-use" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ford said</a>. &#8220;I did a bunch of movies for them. They have all this footage, including film that wasn&#8217;t printed. So they can mine it from where the light is coming from, from the expression. I don&#8217;t know how they do it. But that&#8217;s my actual face. Then I put little dots on my face, and I say the words, and they make [it]. It&#8217;s fantastic.&#8221;
&#8220;Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny&#8221; will release in the U.S. on Friday, June 30.
Ford and Flockhart tied the knot in 2010, and they share a son together. The &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; star has four other kids from two previous marriages.
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tom-hanks-spills-details-on-the-christmas-gift-he-gets-every-year-from-tom-cruise" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Actor Tom Hanks</a> talked about the use of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/heres-how-incredible-and-terrifying-artificial-intelligence-is-these-days" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Artificial Intelligence</a> in Hollywood and said that technology exists now such that he could die tomorrow and his &#8220;performances can go on and on and on.&#8221;
During the 66-year-old actor&#8217;s recent appearance on &#8220;<a href="https://www.adam-buxton.co.uk/podcasts/lpbk8k9zbhx54zt-8yl8m-mdzjc-whmf8-2lwfg-emz92-cxnlh-ghwwh-r34cb-sfwnb-kmjcj-x8cgn-gzmzx-xfpt5-x6cma-d8lbc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Adam Buxton Podcast</a>,&#8221; Hanks said his work could continue when he&#8217;s no longer on this earth as he and the host debated whether people will care if a film features AI Hanks or the real thing, <a href="https://variety.com/2023/film/news/tom-hanks-act-death-ai-deepfakes-1235614391/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Variety</a> reported.
&#8220;What is a bona fide possibility right now, if I wanted to, [is] I could get together and pitch a series of seven movies that would star me in them in which I would be 32 years old from now until kingdom come,&#8221; the &#8220;Cast Away&#8221; star said.
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Tom Hanks says he could keep acting after he dies because of AI and deepfakes: &quot;I could be hit by a bus tomorrow and that’s it, but performances can go on and on&#8230;there’ll be nothing to tell you that it’s not me and me alone.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/ygbKo1xcGP">https://t.co/ygbKo1xcGP</a>
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&#8220;Anybody can now recreate themselves at any age they are by way of AI or deep fake technology … I could be hit by a bus tomorrow and that&#8217;s it, but my performances can go on and on and on,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Outside the understanding of AI and deepfake, there&#8217;ll be nothing to tell you that it&#8217;s not me and me alone.&#8221;
&#8220;And it&#8217;s going to have some degree of lifelike quality,&#8221; the Oscar-winning actor continued. &#8220;That&#8217;s certainly an artistic challenge, but it&#8217;s also a legal one. Without a doubt people will be able to tell [that it&#8217;s AI], but the question is, will they care? There are some people that won&#8217;t care, that won&#8217;t make that delineation.&#8221;
Stars like Harrison Ford, Keanu Reeves, and more have started to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/too-many-people-are-using-it-against-us-celebs-and-hollywood-at-odds-over-use-of-ai" target="_blank" rel="noopener">speak out</a> about AI, both for and against the technology.
&#8220;They have this artificial intelligence program that can go through every foot of film that Lucasfilm owns,&#8221; Ford said of George Lucas&#8217; production company, making him look younger in the final film in the &#8220;Indiana Jones&#8221; franchise.
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&#8220;They have all this footage, including film that wasn&#8217;t printed,&#8221; he added. &#8220;So they can mine it from where the light is coming from, from the expression. I don&#8217;t know how they do it. But that&#8217;s my actual face. Then I put little dots on my face, and I say the words, and they make [it]. It&#8217;s fantastic.&#8221;
Reeves, who famously played a character who fought AI in &#8220;The Matrix,” isn&#8217;t as keen on the technology. He said he realized a while ago that he needed to have legal protection to prohibit digital manipulation of performances without his consent.
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Celebrities and Hollywood executives have found themselves at odds over the use of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/collision-course-how-an-explosion-in-artificial-intelligence-could-threaten-human-agency" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Artificial Intelligence</a> like ChatGPT, even as it&#8217;s already happening at every level of moviemaking, eliminating human accountability and judgment.
Stars like <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-little-spooky-harrison-ford-80-reacts-to-de-aging-scene-in-new-indiana-jones-5-movie" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harrison Ford</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/you-lose-your-agency-keanu-reeves-calls-deepfakes-scary-says-his-movie-contracts-forbid-digital-editing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Keanu Reeves</a> and more have started to speak out about AI using their likeness and voice. While some celebs have been willing to sell their rights to AI companies, others have taken steps to protect their image in contracts, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/ai-has-keanu-reeves-harrison-ford-elon-musks-ex-girlfriend-grimes-at-odds-over-use" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a> noted.
&#8220;They have this artificial intelligence program that can go through every foot of film that Lucasfilm owns,&#8221; Ford said of George Lucas&#8217; production company, making him look younger in the final film in the &#8220;Indiana Jones&#8221; franchise.
&#8220;I did a bunch of movies for them,&#8221; he added. &#8220;They have all this footage, including film that wasn&#8217;t printed. So they can mine it from where the light is coming from, from the expression. I don&#8217;t know how they do it. But that&#8217;s my actual face. Then I put little dots on my face, and I say the words, and they make [it]. It&#8217;s fantastic.&#8221;
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“The danger is less about AI in the creation of documentary, the actual production, and more in the curation of it,” says Amit Dey, executive vp nonfiction at MRC <a href="https://t.co/vawj91Cx5t">https://t.co/vawj91Cx5t</a>
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Reeves, who famously played a character who fought AI in &#8220;The Matrix&#8221; in the 1999 sci-fi thriller, isn&#8217;t as keen on the technology. He said he realized a while ago he needed to have legal protection to prohibit digital manipulation of performances without his consent.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t mind if someone takes a blink out during an edit,&#8221; Reeves told <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/keanu-reeves-chad-stahelski-interview/">Wired</a>. &#8220;But, early on, in the early 2000s, or it might have been the &#8217;90s, I had a performance changed. They added a tear to my face, and I was just like, &#8216;Huh?!&#8217; It was like, &#8216;I don&#8217;t even have to be here.'&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s going to be interesting to see how humans deal with these technologies,&#8221; he added. &#8220;They&#8217;re having such cultural, sociological impacts and the species is being studied. There&#8217;s so much &#8216;data&#8217; on behaviors now. Technologies are finding places in our education, in our medicine, in our entertainment, in our politics, and how we war and how we work.&#8221;
&#8220;People are growing up with these tools,&#8221; the &#8220;John Wick&#8221; star continued. &#8220;We&#8217;re listening to music already that&#8217;s made by AI in the style of Nirvana. There&#8217;s NFT digital art. It&#8217;s cool&#8230;but there&#8217;s a corporatocracy behind it that&#8217;s looking to control those things. Culturally, socially, we&#8217;re gonna be confronted by the value of real, or the non-value. And then what&#8217;s going to be pushed on us? What&#8217;s going to be presented to us?&#8221;
In Hollywood right now, the Writer&#8217;s Guild of America(WGA) is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/late-night-hosts-jimmy-fallon-seth-meyers-to-help-pay-staff-during-writers-strike-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">striking</a> and many of your favorite shows are on hold as TV and Film screenwriters express unease and concerns over chatbots rewriting or writing scripts, <a href="https://fortune.com/2023/05/05/writers-strike-hollywood-ai-scripts/">Fortune.com</a> noted. The strike is also over an increase in pay and larger contributions to benefits.
Writer, director, and actress Justine Bateman issued a warning to those in the business amid the strike when she <a href="https://twitter.com/justinebateman/status/1657476895972413440?s=46&amp;t=yVg_AIbZC0FnyCtU4qPVYw">tweeted</a> that “AI has to be addressed now or never. I believe this is the last time any labor action will be effective in our business. If we don’t make strong rules now, they simply won’t notice if we strike in three years, because at that point they won’t need us.”
“Actors, you must have iron-clad protection against the AI use of your image and voice in the SAG MBA or your profession is finished…”she added.
&#8220;AI is terrifying,&#8221; Danny Strong, the &#8220;Dopesick&#8221; and &#8220;Empire&#8221; creator said. &#8220;Now, I&#8217;ve seen some of ChatGPT&#8217;s writing and as of now I&#8217;m not terrified because Chat is a terrible writer. But who knows? That could change.&#8221;
Michael Winship, president of the WGA East and a news and documentary writer said, &#8220;We&#8217;re not totally against AI. There are ways it can be useful. But too many people are using it against us and using it to create mediocrity. They&#8217;re also in violation of copyright. They&#8217;re also plagiarizing.&#8221;
In a recent <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d37za/voice-actors-sign-away-rights-to-artificial-intelligence" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Vice</a> article, voice actors spoke out about having to sign their rights away to these tech companies using voice-generating artificial intelligence.
&#8220;It&#8217;s disrespectful to the craft to suggest that generating a performance is equivalent to a real human being&#8217;s performance,&#8221; SungWon Cho, a game and animation voice actor said.
&#8220;Sure, you can get it to sound tonally like a voice, and maybe even make it sound like it&#8217;s capturing an emotion, but at the end of the day, it is still going to ring hollow and false,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Going down this road runs the risk of people thinking that voice-over can be replaced entirely by AI, which really makes my stomach turn.&#8221;
Film producer Emmet McDermott recently wrote that writers should be concerned about &#8220;protections against AI&#8221; in the documentary and nonfiction space, the <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/ai-filmmaking-algorithm-documentaries-non-fiction-1235478174/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hollywood Reporter</a> noted.
&#8220;The greatest threat to broader culture posed by ambient machinery isn&#8217;t the bottom-up, AI-generated art populating social media (think: Wes Anderson Directs Star Wars),&#8221; McDermott wrote.
&#8220;It is the top-down, AI-powered platforming of art, which we&#8217;re already seeing across the media landscape — algorithms deciding, on a global scale, which stories to tell and how — and it is especially insidious in the realm of nonfiction,&#8221; he added.
Actor-screenwriter Clark Gregg said that &#8220;what&#8217;s especially scary about [AI] is nobody, including a lot of the people who are involved with creating it, seem to be able to explain exactly what it’s capable of and how quickly it will be capable of more.&#8221;
Amit Dey, executive vp nonfiction at MRC said,  &#8220;It&#8217;s one thing if human-made films are competing in the market against robot-made films. It&#8217;s another thing entirely when data in the form of artificial intelligence, or proprietary algorithms, shape the decisions around what human audiences are exposed to. In other words, what gets bought&#8230;what stories get told.&#8221;
However, CEO Bryn Mooser of XTR has defended using AI after creating a proprietary algorithm which he called a valuable &#8220;tool&#8221; to help guide his development process.
&#8220;We had always been thinking of it as a tool, and as a tool it&#8217;s incredibly useful,&#8221; Mooser said. &#8220;What conversations are trending. What people are talking about. We built it so we could overlay that with historical data in the documentary business.&#8221;
&#8220;What works, what doesn&#8217;t,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Its application as a tool to enhance what filmmakers can do is incredibly powerful and important. And my hope would be that it&#8217;s embraced.&#8221;
Others have noted that it is Hollywood themselves that has been warning us for decades about the dangers of getting &#8220;too close&#8221; to AI, <a href="https://gizmodo.com/ai-chatbot-google-ai-her-ex-machina-replika-1850156877/slides/2">Gizmodo</a> noted.
Such films they mentioned that bring this idea home include the 2014 &#8220;Ex-Machina,&#8221; 2001&#8217;s &#8220;Artificial Intelligence,&#8221; &#8220;Ghost in the Shell&#8221; in 1995, and of course Disney&#8217;s 1982 &#8220;Tron.&#8221; The theme with so many of these sci-fi films is that AI can eventually develop its own autonomy and then the battle between humans and machines changes forever.

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'Too Many People Are Using It Against Us': Celebs And Hollywood At Odds Over Use Of AI

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Late-legendary &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; star <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/carrie-fisher">Carrie Fisher</a> is finally getting her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame nearly seven years after her death.
The actress, who famously played Princess Leia in the film franchise, will be honored posthumously on quite possibly the most perfect day, May 4th, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/star-wars-icon-carrie-fisher-posthumously-receive-hollywood-walk-fame-star-may-4">Fox News</a> reported. It is the day that many fans have come to call &#8220;Star Wars Day,&#8221; playing off the famous line, &#8220;May the force be with you.&#8221;
Fisher died in December 2016 after she had a heart attack. She was 60.
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May the 4th be with you! Beloved actress Carrie Fisher will be honored posthumously with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on May 4th at 11:30 am <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/walkoffame?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#walkoffame</a> <a href="https://t.co/DrMeZDRzP1">pic.twitter.com/DrMeZDRzP1</a>
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According to the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, Fisher&#8217;s star will be near the famous El Capitan Theatre and the 2,754th star honored in the Motion Pictures category.
&#8220;Carrie will join her &#8216;Star Wars&#8217; co-stars and fellow Walk of Famers Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford on this historic sidewalk,&#8221; Ana Martinez, producer of the Hollywood Walk of Fame, said. &#8220;I am happy to add, that her star is just a few feet away from the star of Mark Hamill and across the street from the star of her legendary mother Debbie Reynolds!&#8221;
Reynolds died one day after Fisher.
Fisher&#8217;s daughter Billie Lourd, 30, will accept the star on her mother&#8217;s behalf.
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mark-hamill">Hamill</a> celebrated the news, tweeting: &#8220;Long overdue &amp; so well-deserved,&#8221; followed by the hashtag #CarrieOnForever.
Fisher made her film debut in &#8220;Shampoo&#8221; before starring in the &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; trilogy. She also appeared in &#8220;When Harry Met Sally,&#8221; &#8220;The Blues Brothers,&#8221; and had made television appearances on &#8220;Laverne &amp; Shirley,&#8221; &#8220;Sex and the City,&#8221; and was nominated for an Emmy for her work on &#8220;30 Rock.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/carrie-fisher-suffers-massive-heart-attack-flight-hank-berrien">Carrie Fisher Suffers Massive Heart Attack On Flight From London To LA</a>

‘Star Wars’ Actress Carrie Fisher Finally Getting Her Place On Hollywood Walk Of Fame

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Harrison Ford <a href="https://www.gamesradar.com/indiana-jones-harrison-ford-final-appearance-dial-of-destiny/?utm_campaign=socialflow&amp;utm_content=total-film&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">confirmed</a> his next Indiana Jones film, “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” will be his last.
The new film, the first in the series not to be directed by Steven Spielberg, is due to be released at the end of June. The first four films include “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom,” “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,” and “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.”
&#8220;This is the final film in the series, and this is the last time I’ll play the character,” Ford told Total Film Magazine. “I anticipate that it will be the last time that he appears in a film.&#8221;
Ford, who will be 81 in July, said of a rumored TV show with Indiana Jones that he would “not be involved in that, if it does come to fruition.”
“I had been ambitious to do this film for 10 years, and there finally came a time when we all committed to that,” Ford acknowledged. “It was a joyous moment for me. I think it’s a rare situation that I find myself in. &#8230; I’ve been able to deliver amazing films developed by Steven and George over a 40-year period, and to end it not with a whimper, but a bang, has been my greatest ambition for this excursion.&#8221;
Ford’s acting career started with various TV roles in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. but he taught himself to become a professional carpenter. His breakthrough role came in George Lucas’ “American Graffiti” in 1973, followed by small roles in Francis Ford Coppola’s films “The Conversation” and “Apocalypse Now” before he hit the jackpot when Lucas cast him as Han Solo  in “Star Wars.”
Following “Star Wars,” Ford appeared in several films before he starred in “The Empire Strikes back and “Return of the Jedi.” But his move to holding a film up by himself came with “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” which propelled him into genuine stardom. He went on to star in “Blade Runner,” “Witness” and “The Mosquito Coast,” followed by playing Jack Ryan in “Patriot Games” and “Clear and Present Danger.”
He also starred in the classic thriller “The Fugitive” and “Air Force One.”
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“The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles,”an American television series that aired in 1992-1993, gave Ford an opportunity to bookend one episode.
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Hollywood great Al Pacino opened up about the movie role he said he regrets not doing as he jokingly took a dig at Harrison Ford — who he said has never thanked him for landing the part in &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; that would launch his career.
During the 82-year-old actor&#8217;s recent appearance with David Rubenstein for the 92NY&#8217;s &#8220;People Who Inspire Us&#8221; series, Pacino said there&#8217;s only one role he regrets to this day turning down and it&#8217;s George Lucas&#8217; 1977 monster film, the <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/al-pacino-godfather-turning-down-star-wars-the-offer-1235392646/">Hollywood Reporter</a> reported.
&#8220;I turned down ‘Star Wars,'&#8221; Pacino said. &#8220;When I first came up, I was the new kid on the block, you know what happens when you first become famous.&#8221;
&#8220;So I was there and all of a sudden they gave me a script that was called &#8216;Star Wars,'&#8221; he added. &#8220;I said, &#8216;I got the script, they offered me so much money, but I don&#8217;t understand it.'&#8221;
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The &#8220;Scent of a Woman&#8221; star said he decided eventually to turn it down for that reason, before he joked, &#8220;I gave Harrison Ford a career, which he has never thanked me for!&#8221;
At one point in the hour-long chat, the &#8220;Scarface&#8221; star was also asked if he thinks the original 1972 gangster movie &#8220;The Godfather&#8221; is &#8220;superior&#8221; to the second one &#8220;The Godfather Part II&#8221; released in 1974.
&#8220;No, I don&#8217;t,&#8221; Pacino said. &#8220;I really think it&#8217;s more — what would you call it — artistic or something, I don&#8217;t know. I don&#8217;t mean to play it down and be overly modest because I star in it with Bob de Niro, but at the same time, it&#8217;s a different film.&#8221;
&#8220;You see, &#8216;The Godfather is more entertaining,'&#8221; he added. &#8220;Godfather II is this study, this personal thing for Francis [Ford Coppola],&#8221; he added. &#8220;Godfather I, I saw it recently, it&#8217;s always got two or three things going on in a scene. You&#8217;re always in the story, you&#8217;re going.&#8221;
&#8220;You don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s going to happen next, it&#8217;s storytelling, it&#8217;s really storytelling at its best,&#8221; &#8220;The Devils Advocate&#8221; star continued. &#8220;Godfather II sort of linearizes, and [it&#8217;s] kind of different, somber, moves slowly. But it&#8217;s a great movie, I have to say.&#8221;

Al Pacino, Marlon Brando, James Caan, and John Cazale publicity portrait for the film ‘The Godfather’, 1972.

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Harrison Ford didn&#8217;t hold back when he learned that some fans speculated that he suffered from some kind of social anxiety disorder.
During an interview for a cover story for <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/harrison-ford-interview-shrinking-indy-5-1923-1235318736/">The Hollywood Reporter</a>, the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/harrison-ford">80-year-old</a> actor said that he does not have social anxiety but does have &#8220;an abhorrence of boring situations.&#8221;
&#8220;S***. That sounds like something a psychiatrist would say, not a casual observer. No. I don&#8217;t have a social anxiety disorder,&#8221; Ford said when asked about the speculation.
&#8220;I have an abhorrence of boring situations,&#8221; he added. &#8220;I was shy when I first went onstage — I wasn&#8217;t shy, I was f***ing terrified. My knees would shake so badly, you could see it from the back of the theater.&#8221;
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&#8220;But that’s not social anxiety,&#8221; the &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/han-solos-gun-from-original-star-wars-movie-sells-for-ridiculous-amount-at-auction">legend</a> continued. &#8220;That&#8217;s being unfamiliar with the territory. I was able to talk myself through that and then enjoy the experience of being onstage and telling a story with collaborators.&#8221;
The interviewer pressed the &#8220;Indiana Jones&#8221; star further on what he does when he&#8217;s in a situation where he has to do something he doesn&#8217;t really want to do.
&#8220;I just buckle down and do it,&#8221; Ford explained. &#8220;There are things I don&#8217;t love doing, but I want to be gracious about it, and I don&#8217;t want to shove it into somebody&#8217;s face that I don&#8217;t like doing it.&#8221;
&#8220;They might be having a great time,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Like you might be having a great time right now, or you could be having a terrible time and are preparing to write some nasty s*** and I would never know. I&#8217;m just here to do my job, and my job, at the moment, is to help sell the product. This is what they really pay me for. The acting I&#8217;d do for free.&#8221;
When told that he&#8217;s at a point in his career where he could basically refuse to do press, the &#8220;Blade Runner&#8221; star said he would never do that because &#8220;That&#8217;s a prick. That&#8217;s wrong.&#8221;
At 80, Ford is keeping busy doing the Apple+ series &#8220;Shrinking&#8221; and the Paramount+ &#8220;Yellowstone&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/yellowstone-prequel-1923-attracts-record-audience-for-premiere">prequel</a> show &#8220;1923.&#8221;

Harrison Ford Slams Fan Speculation He’s Suffering From Social Anxiety Disorder

After a lot of hype and anticipation, the “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/yellowstone">Yellowstone</a>” prequel “1923” premiered on Paramount+ to a record audience. 
Paramount Global reported that 7.4 million people <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/television">tuned in</a> to the premiere episode Sunday, including viewers from three Paramount Network telecasts, CMT, and streaming on Paramount+, <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/yellowstone-1923-premiere-ratings-1235285116/">according to</a> The Hollywood Reporter.
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/entertainment">series</a> stars Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren as ancestors of the Dutton family made famous by the hit show, “Yellowstone.” This latest iteration follows the family as they run a sprawling Montana cattle ranch a few years after World War I and during Prohibition. It is chock full of cowboys, danger, dreams, family values, and an impending sense of doom as the Great Depression looms. 
“Anchored by Taylor Sheridan’s incredible vision and the performances of legends Helen Mirren and Harrison Ford, we felt confident this next chapter of the Dutton Family origin story would resonate with audiences,” chief programming officer Tanya Giles said of the viewership results. 
“We are thrilled with the record-breaking early response to the first episode and can’t wait to introduce more audiences to this incredible journey of perseverance, heartbreak and adventure set amongst the backdrop of the Mountain West,” she continued.
President and CEO of Paramount Media Networks Chris McCarthy agreed, saying, “The Yellowstone universe continues to break records, with our latest chapter, ‘1923’ scoring as the most watched premiere ever on Paramount+ and debuting as the #1 new cable premiere of the year on linear.” 
He credited Sheridan for the success, saying the showrunner is able “to tap a cultural nerve that has proven irresistible to viewers from across the country and around the world, with this newest installment showing no signs of slowing down.”
Ford, who stars as Jacob Dutton, previously revealed why he agreed to take on this role. He said playing a rancher who has to fight to protect his family and land was easy enough to accomplish, given his previous experience.
“I don’t want to reinvent myself,” the 80-year-old Hollywood mainstay <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-dont-want-to-reinvent-myself-harrison-ford-talks-about-upcoming-yellowstone-prequel-1923">said</a>. “I just want to work.”
The “Yellowstone” franchise has won favor with conservative audiences even though Sheridan said that was never his intention. “They refer to it as ‘the conservative show’ or ‘the Republican show’ or ‘the red-state Game of Thrones,’ ” he previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/yellowstone-creator-taylor-sheridan-laughs-at-the-idea-of-series-being-a-red-state-show">told</a> The Atlantic.
“And I just sit back laughing. I’m like, ‘Really?’ The show’s talking about the displacement of Native Americans and the way Native American women were treated and about corporate greed and the gentrification of the West, and land-grabbing. That’s a red-state show?”

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