An actress powered by AI, Tilly Norwood, will star in an upcoming feature film. The movie, “Misaligned,” is described as a comedy-drama portraying a “coming-of-age story infused with existential AI chaos.”
“Our work this year has proven something we suspected all along,” Eline van der Velden, CEO & Founder of Particle 6, said in a statement reported by Variety. “AI can support premium narrative filmmaking, but only with substantial amounts of human craft, skill, judgement and time. That’s not a limitation of the technology. That’s the point. The filmmakers who thrive in the next decade will be the ones who bring decades of storytelling instinct to these new tools, and ‘Misaligned’ is where we put that to work at feature scale.”
“The film will absolutely be funny, chaotic and self-aware — very Tilly,” said van der Velden of “Misaligned. “But underneath it, there’s something deeper about identity, performance, and our very human fears around AI. And yes, art will most definitely be imitating life.”
The actors union SAG-AFTRA condemned the AI actor, saying the figure is not an actor, but is a “character generated by a computer program.”
“SAG-AFTRA believes creativity is, and should remain, human-centered. The union is opposed to the replacement of human performers by synthetics,” the September 2025 statement read. It added that the character “has no life experience to draw from, no emotion and, from what we’ve seen, audiences aren’t interested in watching computer-generated content untethered from the human experience.”
“Additionally, signatory producers should be aware that they may not use synthetic performers without complying with our contractual obligations, which require notice and bargaining whenever a synthetic performer is going to be used,” it further stated.
