Lisa Kudrow isn’t happy about Tom Hanks’ latest movie.
The “Friends” actress, 61, recently slammed Hanks’ reunion film with Robin Wright, “Here,” claiming the movie — which shows the pair decades younger in certain scenes thanks to de-aging technology — was an “endorsement for AI.”
“Here” was released in Nov. and flopped at the box office, bringing in $13 million worldwide, according to Variety.
“They shot it, and they could actually shoot the scene and then look at the playback of them as younger, and it’s ready for them to see,” Kudrow criticized the movie on Dax Shepard’s podcast, “Armchair Expert.”
“All I got from that was, this is an endorsement for AI. It’s not like, ‘Oh it’s going to ruin everything,’ but what will be left? Forget actors, what about up-and-coming actors? They’ll just be licensing and recycling,” she continued.
The actress — whose Netflix series “No Good Deed” was released last week — expressed her concern over the technology.
“Set that completely aside, what work will there be for human beings? Then what?” Kudrow asked. “There’ll be some kind of living stipend for people, you won’t have to work? How can it possibly be enough?”
Last year, Hanks discussed AI, revealing that the technology would make it possible for him to continue acting long after his death.
“Anybody can now recreate themselves at any age they are by way of AI or deep fake technology. I could be hit by a bus tomorrow and that’s it, but performances can go on and on and on and on,” the Oscar winner said in May 2023.
“Outside the understanding of AI and deepfake, there’ll be nothing to tell you that it’s not me and me alone. And it’s going to have some degree of lifelike quality. That’s certainly an artistic challenge but it’s also a legal one,” he explained.
Hanks shared that “all of the guilds, all of the agencies and all of the legal firms” were discussing “the legal ramifications of my face and my voice and everybody else’s being our intellectual property.”
He added, “Without a doubt people will be able to tell [that it’s AI], but the question is will they care? There are some people that won’t care, that won’t make that delineation.”
The Robert Zemeckis directorial film “Here” made headlines when it was revealed that Hanks and Wright would reunite for the first time on the big screen in 30 years following the success of their 1994 blockbuster “Forrest Gump.”
The stars revealed they jumped at the chance to work together again.
When Bob [Zemeckis] mentioned getting the band back together, I was like, yes, for sure,” Wright said of the reunion. “And he’s like, this has never been done before. I said, let’s go, let’s take the ride. We have such faith in him because his imagination is pretty incredible.”
“We were making jokes when we were doing it because a lot of these scenes, they only last like two minutes or, you know, and our job was to make them as lively as possible and real as possible. And I said, well, look, if, look, if it gets boring, Bob will just have a stegosaurus walk by the window,” Hanks shared.
“Here” is a story about families, loss and love. The movie uses digital effects to show Hanks and Wright at different ages to create a sense of time passing.
The Post’s movie critic, Johnny Oleksinski, called the movie a “nauseating bomb.”
