Kevin Sorbo and his wife, actress Sam Sorbo, own the production company Sorbo Studios. “Hercules: The Legendary Journeys” star Kevin Sorbo and his wife, actress Sam Sorbo, don’t like the idea of artificial intelligence being used in Hollywood.
Recently, the couple talked to Fox News Digital about their new movie, “Miracle in East Texas,” and shared their worries about how AI could be used to change players’ looks and performances. The two of them run their own production business, Sorbo Studios, which makes faith-based entertainment for the whole family.
Kevin said, “I’ve always wanted to make a movie with Marilyn Monroe and Marlon Brando, and it looks like I will be able to.” “But I don’t think they’d be able to get away with that in court without paying the people.”
He then said, “We must fight it… It’s very annoying. I don’t want to go on strike, but I understand why they are, and I hope that the problem will be fixed soon.”
Sam agreed with the things her husband said.
She said, “I think AI is very, very dangerous.” “It’s not controlled, and I don’t know if they even know how to regulate it because it’s so sneaky. And, you know, my daughter is an artist, and there’s a lot of commotion in the art world because AI can copy any piece of art and change it in any way it wants.
“This is also something that artists have trouble with. If they can just make another one of these [points to Kevin] and make it do or say whatever they want, that’s a very bad idea.”
Kevin said, “They will, they’ll do it.”
“You know, the one thing this country stands for is basically bodily autonomy, like we have freedom,” Sam said, adding that she thinks the strike “is quite justified.”
Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) has been on strike since July 14, and the Writers Guild of America (WGA) has been on strike since May 2. AI has been a big point of disagreement between the two groups as they try to reach a deal with the companies.
The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) and the Writers Guild of America (WGA) met on August 11. AT THIS MEETING, the AMPTP made its first counteroffer to the union’s requests.
The union criticized the studios’ negotiating group in a letter to its members posted on its website this week. It said it had accepted an invitation to meet with “Disney CEO Bob Iger, Universal Pictures CCO Donna Langley, Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav, and AMPTP president Carol Lombardini.” It came with a message from them saying that the strike had gone on long enough and that the companies were finally ready to discuss a deal.
“We told them all how their counter’s flaws, gaps, and omissions didn’t protect writers well enough from the grave threats that made us strike in the first place. We told them that a strike has a price which is a solution to all of the problems they caused in business, not just some of them.
The letter also said that the guild was “given a lecture about how good their one and only counteroffer was” and that the AMPTP’s plan wasn’t to negotiate with the guild but to “jam us.”
In a post on the group’s website, AMPTP president Lombardini said, “Our top priority is to end the strike so that valued members of the creative community can get back to doing what they do best and so that so many people and businesses that serve the industry can stop having trouble.” We’ve come to the table with a deal that considers the writers’ most important worries. We are very committed to stopping the strike and hope the WGA will do the same.
