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Why The New Anthony Bordain Documentary Is Suddenly Controversial · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest road Runner, a film
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Speaker 1: about Anthony Bourdain set a record over the week. I'm
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Speaker 1: becoming the best performing post pandemic documentary at the box office.
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Speaker 1: But it didn't do it without a bit of controversy
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Speaker 1: because it's been revealed that filmmakers opted to use voice
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Speaker 1: cloning software to make Anthony say things allow Lily Food
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Speaker 1: Star wrote but never actually said. The filmmakers responded to
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Speaker 1: a wall of criticism since the news broken his statements, saying,
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Speaker 1: with the blessing of his estate and literary agent, we
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Speaker 1: used AI technology. It was a modern storytelling technique that
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Speaker 1: I used in a few places where I thought it
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Speaker 1: was important to make Tony's words come alive. But Anthony's widow,
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Speaker 1: Otavia responded, tweeting I certainly was not the one who
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Speaker 1: said Tony would have been cool with that now that
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Speaker 1: the technology to fake famous voices exist, but we see
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Speaker 1: it stir up controversy again. That's direct from Hollywood.