‘That there is an AI actress who has made her appearance at the same time this film is coming out… I think is ironic,’ says Gillian Anderson.

The star of The X-Files, The Crown and Sex Education is not only talking about her new movie, Tron: Ares, the lavish third in the sci-fi franchise that started with 1982’s landmark Tron. She’s also alluding to Tilly Norwood, the just-unveiled artificially-created ‘actress’ that’s left Hollywood stars up in arms.

In Tron: Ares, Anderson plays Elizabeth Dillinger, mother to tech whizz Julian (Evan Peters), who creates a sophisticated, military-grade AI security program, Ares (Jared Leto), capable of emerging in our world in human form.

The world of artificial intelligence has never been more pertinent than it is now, admits Anderson. ‘It is so in ou

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