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Back to EpisodesTHE AI QUESTION HOLLYWOOD DOESN’T WANT TO ASK: Film Producer Elizabeth Caddy on GOOD LUCK, HAVE FUN, DON’T DIE
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What if the technology threatening Hollywood could actually protect some of its most vulnerable performers?
Film producer Elizabeth Caddy returns to The Fixate & Binge Podcast for a provocative, wide-ranging conversation that begins with Gore Verbinski’s GOOD LUCK, HAVE FUN, DON'T DIE and quickly evolves into something much bigger: the rapidly changing—and increasingly unsettling—relationship between artificial intelligence, entertainment, and humanity.
Elizabeth and Joe dive into the dangers AI poses to filmmaking, creativity, performers, and society itself, while also confronting an idea that is considerably harder to dismiss: Could AI actually be used to replace child actors—and in doing so, protect children from an entertainment industry with a long and disturbing history of exploitation, bullying, addiction, abuse, and trauma?
It’s an uncomfortable proposition. And Elizabeth doesn’t shy away from it.
The conversation also includes Joe’s review of HOKUM (which Elizabeth thinks may have been a little too generous), along with Elizabeth’s recommendations for HEEL, starring Stephen Graham, and STOP! THAT! TRAIN!, starring RuPaul.
But ultimately, this episode becomes a much deeper discussion about where we draw the line with AI—and whether the technology we fear might, in some circumstances, actually be capable of protecting the people Hollywood has historically failed to protect.
It’s provocative. It’s uncomfortable. And it’s a conversation Hollywood desperately needs to have.
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