Meet Tilly Norwood. She’s young, beautiful, and — much to Hollywood’s horror — not real. She’s the world’s first AI “actress,” created by Dutch comedian and producer Eline Van der Velden. Tilly isn’t a flesh-and-blood woman who signs contracts, storms off sets, or sues her director. She’s an algorithm in a dress. And Hollywood is in a full-blown panic. The Screen Actors Guild is clutching its pearls. Agents are sweating. Movie stars are wailing that “art is dead.” You can picture it now: Beverly Hills prima donnas with mascara running down their cheeks, stylists fainting in hair salons, and producers screaming into their oat-milk lattes. Because deep down, everyone in the industry knows what this means: actors and actresses are no longer indispensable. Think about the savings. AI doesn’t need stunt doubles, makeup trailers, or a hotel suite with twenty-seven white candles and a personal hairdresser flown in from Milan. No food budget. No personal assistants. No entourages demanding first-class flights and organic yak butter. No late-night calls to bail your lead actor out of jail. No lawsuits. No #MeToo exposés. Just performance — cheap, efficient, and drama-free. And for conservatives, here’s the beauty: no more sanctimonious Oscar speeches. No more overpaid actors lecturing America about politics, faith, or morality while cashing million-dollar checks. Tilly Norwood will never “bravely” tell you to shut up about your religion or move to Canada if the wrong candidate wins. She’ll just show up on screen and deliver her lines — without a single lecture. Yes, the elites will fight. They’ll threaten to strike, sue, and cry about “the death of the craft.” But money always wins in Hollywood. And money says: Why pay George Clooney when a hard drive does the job without demanding royalties or a private chef? So here it is: the end of an era. The red carpet is being rolled up, the velvet ropes packed away. Soon the only thing left in Tinseltown will be the sound of faint sobbing as the last “Gaffer” explains to his grandchildren what he used to do for a living. Lights. Camera. Delete. Martin Mawyer is the President of Christian Action Network, host of the “Shout Out Patriots” podcast and author of When Evil Stops Hiding. Subscribe for more action alerts, cultural commentary, and real-world campaigns defending faith, family, and freedom. You're currently a free subscriber to Majority Report. For the full experience, upgrade your subscription. |