Spielberg Vows Never To Use Digital Actors

By Jack December 9, 1999 11:33 AM

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Steven Spielberg has expressed worry about the direction of motion picture technology, predicting that it would eventually create "virtual" actors.?Appearing on Larry King's CNN talk show Wednesday, Spielberg said of the technological revolution in movie making: "You can do anything now.?You can do anything but replicate a human being, a natural person, and I thank God for that, because I don't think that we should ever go there, so to speak.?Don't go there.?I wouldn't go there.?I would not be interested in doing that." When King asked whether Spielberg foresaw the day when an Al Pacino could be replaced by a computer, the director replied: "You'll never get a computer to act as well as Al Pacino, but physically someday you'll be able to, they'll be able to, you know, replicate or simulate what a human person looks like and almost convince you, the viewer that, that is a real person not a digitized confection from a computer."

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