Chris Pratt Says Panicking About AI Actors Like Tilly Norwood Being A Threat To Jobs Is “All Bulls***”

Last year, there was this bizarre push from Hollywood trades to promote AI actress Tilly Norwood (honestly, coming off like shameless sponsored content aimed at promoting various AI tech businesses, rather than the film/TV industry), which led to a huge backlash from the acting union SAG-AFTRA. With that in mind, “Mercy” actor Chris Pratt (starring in a movie where artificial intellenge detemines the fate of his character after being accused of murder) isn’t exactly concerned about the rise of AI constructs like Norwood threatening jobs and the acting profession as a whole.

“I don’t feel like someone’s gonna replace me, that’s AI,” Pratt told Variety in a recent red carpet interview. “I heard this Tilly Norwood thing, I think that’s all bullshit. I’ve never seen her in a movie. I don’t know who this bitch is. It’s all fake until it’s something.”

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Adding, “I don’t think you’re going to replace the human soul of a director or a writer or an actor or a singer or any of this stuff that requires human yearning and suffering and vision in art.”

However, Pratt isn’t entirely against the idea of using AI, stating it could be “an amazing tool in the right hands.” While also suggesting it may “inevitably disrupt the industry,” and had no doubts that “great filmmakers” will keep making “great films” regardless of the influx of AI use.

Who knows, ultimately, if the industry and audiences will embrace AI constructs pretending to be human actors? With recent reports of companies like OpenAI (subject of Luca Guadagnino‘s new tech-bro world pic “Artificial“) being on the cusp of bankruptcy by mid-2027, this latest tech bubble could burst before any of that becomes a real threat to actors.

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Pratt’s “Mercy” co-starring Rebecca Ferguson and Kali Reis, which hails from director Timur Bekmambetov, with the new sci-fi crime thriller hitting theaters this week on Friday, January 23.