Nicolas Cage Is ‘Terrified’ of AI and Got Digitally Scanned for Spider-Man Noir: ‘I Don’t Want You to Do Anything’ With My Face and Body ‘When I’m Dead’
variety.comZack Sharf Digital News Director Nicolas Cage said in an interview for The New Yorker that he is terrified of AI and is hoping recent body scans he had to do for two upcoming projects aren’t used as reference for AI technology to recreate him on screen after his death.
Cage is currently attached to star in MGM+ and Amazon Prime Video’s live-action Spider-Man Noir series, which would bring him back into the tentpole space and give him his most prominent television role to date.
He admitted that television was never appealing to him, but “what interested me was the time I could take expressing something.” “I saw Bryan Cranston in ‘Breaking Bad’ stare at a suitcase for half the episode,” Cage said. “Just him on the floor looking at a suitcase thinking, ‘What’s in it?
Do I do this? Don’t I do it?’ I thought, ‘We don’t have time to do that in movies.’ So that to me seemed like an opportunity to open it up a little.
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