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Sigourney Weaver Explains Why Technology Breakthroughs Will Never Replace Actors · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywoodcrest. Avatar to the Way of Water pushes
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  Speaker 1: special effects to new bounds with incredibly intimate performances of
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  Speaker 1: fantastical CG characters, thanks in large part to advancements and
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  Speaker 1: performance captured technology, which allows actors facial expressions to be
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  Speaker 1: recorded then translated into the CG. Some actors worried that
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  Speaker 1: in the future they won't be needed when technology advances
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  Speaker 1: to the point where computers generate lead characters without that,
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  Speaker 1: but Sigourney Weaver, who plays the alien curing the franchise,
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  Speaker 1: isn't worried about that. In the slide, is telling Indie
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  Speaker 1: Wire there are missed at scare actors into thinking they'll
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  Speaker 1: be replaced by technology. If anything, making Avatar makes me
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  Speaker 1: realize they need us more than ever. We are not
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  Speaker 1: voicing these characters. We are not animating these characters. We
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  Speaker 1: are the soul of these characters, and that is what
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  Speaker 1: the technology picks up. These big pictures using the technology
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  Speaker 1: are demanding in a different way. That's why they need
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  Speaker 1: such good actors to make this stuff come alive. Avatar
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  Speaker 1: to the Way of Water in theaters, now, that's direct
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  Speaker 1: from Hollywood