#Actors News

[yusuke-of-valla]

WE LIVE IN A HELL WORLD

Snippets from the article by Karissa Bell:

SAG-AFTRA, the union representing thousands of performers, has struck a deal with an AI voice acting platform aimed at making it easier for actors to license their voice for use in video games. ...

the agreements cover the creation of so-called “digital voice replicas” and how they can be used by game studios and other companies. The deal has provisions for minimum rates, safe storage and transparency requirements, as well as “limitations on the amount of time that a performance replica can be employed without further payment and consent.”

Notably, the agreement does not cover whether actors’ replicas can be used to train large language models (LLMs), though Replica Studios CEO Shreyas Nivas said the company was interested in pursuing such an arrangement. “We have been talking to so many of the large AAA studios about this use case,” Nivas said. He added that LLMs are “out-of-scope of this agreement” but “they will hopefully [be] things that we will continue to work on and partner on.”

...Even so, some well-known voice actors were immediately skeptical of the news, as the BBC reports. In a press release, SAG-AFTRA said the agreement had been approved by "affected members of the union’s voiceover performer community." But on X, voice actors said they had not been given advance notice. "How has this agreement passed without notice or vote," wrote Veronica Taylor, who voiced Ash in Pokémon. "Encouraging/allowing AI replacement is a slippery slope downward." Roger Clark, who voiced Arthur Morgan in Red Dead Redemption 2, also suggested he was not notified about the deal. "If I can pay for permission to have an AI rendering of an ‘A-list’ voice actor’s performance for a fraction of their rate I have next to no incentive to employ 90% of the lesser known ‘working’ actors that make up the majority of the industry," Clark wrote.

SAG-AFTRA’s deal with Replica only covers a sliver of the game industry. Separately, the union is also negotiating with several of the major game studios after authorizing a strike last fall. “I certainly hope that the video game companies will take this as an inspiration to help us move forward in that negotiation,” Crabtree said.

And here are some various reactions I've found about things people in/adjacent to this can do

And in OTHER AI games news, Valve is updating it's TOS to allow AI generated content on steam so long as devs promise they have the rights to use it, which you can read more about on Aftermath in this article by Luke Plunkett

#video games #voice acting #voice actors #sag aftra #ai #ai news #ai voice acting #video game news #Destiel meme #industry bullshit

[whydidisavethistomyphone]

#bob iger #Disney #writers strike #actors strike #Ron Perlman #emperors new groove #meme

[animentality]

#twitter #oitnb #orange is the new black #wga strike #sag strike #actors strike

[concupiscence66]

Anthony Mackie on the Kelly Clarkson Show discussing the Captain America 4 script. X

#anthony mackie #captain america #kelly clarkson show #captain america: new world order #the glamorous life of an MCU actor

[thelasttoastbender]

I'm only one episode in so far but

Yeah not a total trainwreck so far!

#I like Aang Zuko and Katara's actors #I need to make peace with a new Iroh #Sokka....... we'll see #ATLA #Netflix #Netflix Avatar #Netflix ATLA #NATLA #Avatar the Last Airbender

[acekindaneat]

man loves his takoyaki

#I LOVE REIGEN'S STAGE PLAY ACTOR FR HE'S SO GOOFY #i recently watched it so it is stuck in my head ouugghh #I'll probably redraw more bits from the stageplay bc i love it a lot #also im trying out a new brush i hope it looks good #anyways heres the normal tags #mp100 #reigen arataka #arataka reigen #shigeo kageyama #kageyama shigeo #mp100 fanart #mob psycho 100 #comic #illustration #artists on tumblr #art #mi art stuff #i love takoyaki so much too one time i ate like 12 of it

[fandomestuff]

#i love rocky #AND MICHAEL KOVACH VOICES HIM #I LOVE MICHAEL #i'll miss him so much in hazbin hotel my god #his angel dust was perfect #well high hopes for the new voice actor #ANYWAY #BACK TO ROCKY BECAUSE HE DESERVES ALL OF MY ATTENTION #THE VIOLIN?? #THE FUCKED UP PART?? #THE WAY HE FELL DOWN FROM THAT TOWER RIGHT ON HIS FACE LIKE A CARTOON CHARA... oh #LAUGHED A LOT AT THAT #AND HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH MITZI IS SO ADORABLE #LOVE THEM #LOVE HIM #LOVE THIS SHOW ALREADY #lackadaisy pilot #lackadaisy #lackadaisy animation #rocky rickaby

[mysharona1987]

#sag aftra #news #films #hollywood #actors #sag #warner bros #wb #late stage capitalism

[matchingbatbites]

"What the fuck did you do?"

Eddie wasn't expecting hostility when he answered Jeff's phone call, his best friend's usual calm demeanor replaced with open annoyance. And yeah, okay, the annoyance itself wasn’t new, but Eddie doesn’t think he’s actually done anything recently to earn it.

"Well-"

"Actually, no. I'll tell you what you did. You retweeted photos of Steve Harrington - internationally beloved heartthrob actor Steve Harrington - along with the caption 'not to sound like a subby slut but GOD I would be his puppy baby boy in a heartbeat'. So I guess the better question is, what the fuck were you thinking, Eddie?"

Eddie's jaw clicks shut because- yeah, he had done that. Had seen those photos of Steve smoking circling the internet and spent god knows how long just staring at them, had curbed the desire to shove his hand down his pants by posting a single thirst tweet about it.

“I was thinking, Jeff, that I'm allowed to post whatever I want to my private fucking twitter, man. I mean it's a free country, isn't a guy allowed to make a horny tweet about a sexy man every now and then?”

“You are, when you actually post it to your private account and not our award winning band's main account.”

No. Oh no. There's no way Eddie actually-

He rips his phone away from his face to open twitter, and realizes two things simultaneously. One, Jeff is right, he had posted it to the band's account. Not on his private, locked, personal account, but on the account that's actually open and free for literally anyone on earth to look at.

The second thing he realizes is that their notifications are currently flooded with responses to Eddie's tweet, somehow racking up into the thousands in the few hours it's been since. 

Jesus Christ.

“Eddie?”

The metalhead jerks back into the moment and put Jeff on speaker so he can scroll through the horde of replies, says “Fuck, I fucked up. Are we gonna have to do damage control on this?”

In the mess is a reply from Gareth's own personal account: @ corrodededdie stop tweeting from the band account challenge 🙄🙄🙄

”Maybe. There hasn't been any type of response from Harrington or his people, but they might ask us to take it down if it blows up too much.“

Eddie hums, thinking they might be too little, too late about it blowing up too much, and flips over to his main account so he can reply to Gareth's little jab appropriately. He isn't surprised to see that he has a couple of new messages, probably from other people wondering just what the fuck Eddie was thinking, but when he goes to check them-

He's never been happier that he turned on messages from followers only, because then he would have missed this, missed Steve Harrington's little profile picture beaming up at him from the screen of his phone, along with a new message request.

”Jeff, I gotta go,” he says, not even realizing he's cut the other man off.

“Eddie, what-

”Harrington messaged me. I'll call you back.“

Eddie doesn't wait for a response as he hangs up on Jeff, and his hands definitely aren't shaking as he opens the message from Steve. And listen- Eddie is a fan of the guy, that much should be obvious. 

Steve had grown in popularity around the same time Corroded Coffin had; he’d gotten some part in a drama film that had skyrocketed him into stardom, and Eddie fell in love the moment he saw that gorgeous face on the silver screen for the first time. He's never had a chance to interact with the guy, has been in the same place a few times but always missed him, like ships passing in the night, but Eddie's been fine with pining from afar, just like every other person on the planet that's even remotely attracted to men.

Besides, even with how popular Corroded Coffin has gotten over the years - a couple of Grammy’s here, a dozen chart topping metal songs there - Eddie doesn’t expect Steve to just. Know who Eddie is.

With all of this in mind, Eddie is expecting some kind of semi-casual request to take the tweet down, that it's not a good look for his image-

Anything other than what Steve actually sent.

'If you're puppy baby boy, does that make me Master? Or Daddy?'

And Eddie- 

Eddie slides down, sinks into his couch cushion as all of the blood in his body suddenly shifts, rushing to fill his dick like it's a fucking race. The phone almost slips out of his hand and he fumbles it briefly before taking a deep breath. 

Is Steve serious? He wouldn't send that if he wasn't serious, right?

This could be it, could be Eddie's one chance to impress Steve, to get his foot in the door of Steve's interest. He bites his lip and types out a reply, something quick that he sends before he can change his mind.

‘I’m open to either, actually. Do you have a preference, sir?’

He doesn’t expect the typing indicator to come up immediately, and just knowing that Steve is somewhere right now, typing out a response to Eddie, is enough to have him nearly vibrating in his seat.

‘I’m partial to Daddy, myself.’

Fuck fuck fuck.

Eddie takes a breath, tries to think of a response that isn’t just ‘Please, Daddy, can I sit on your massive dick that I haven’t been able to stop thinking about since that one indie film you did that just had all of your junk out in the open?’

Steve saves him by sending another message.

‘But maybe we could start with Steve, and possibly dinner? Though I’d be happy to see where things go after that.’

He- What-

Eddie must have stopped breathing, because the next time he takes a breath his lungs burn, his mid races because there’s no way Eddie’s long term celebrity crush just asked him on a date. He sits there long enough that the screen goes dark and he scrambles to turn it back on, sees the message still there, real and unchanged.

There’s no way he can say no to this, to Steve, and his hands shake as he types out a response.

‘Dinner would be great. Just name the time and place, Daddy.’

#like everyone else those new pics of joe keery left me kind of #feral. horny. slutty. #so i channeled my feeling a bit #i miiiight do more of this but no promises #steddie #steddie fic #steve harrington #eddie munson #steve x eddie #rockstar eddie munson #actor steve harrington #joey writes #ficlet #fun fact: eddie's tweet was my actual real life message to my friends about those pics

[retrogamingblog2]

The old gyroids were TERRIFYING

#animal crossing #nintendo #new horizons #acnh #gyroids #villagers #gaming #video games #funny #lol #humor #meme #harrison ford #actors #hollywood #gamecube #wii #3ds #ds #acnl #switch #nintendo switch #ac

[celebratingwomen]

Tiffani Thiessen photographed by Gilles Gagnan for NEWLOOK magazine, 1996

#tiffani amber thiessen #tiffani thiessen #actress #actor #model #magazine #photoshoot #fashion #style #famous #celebrity #hair #makeup #90s #1996 #new look #newlook magazine #newlook

[michaelsheens]

fuck this bit in particular actually

#david tennant great actor? in other news the sky is blue #good omens #crowley #aziraphale #ineffable husbands #good omens spoilers #good omens 2 #good omens 2 spoilers #good omens 2x06 #video

[xplore-the-unknwn]

This got suuuper viral on twitter and I want to share this as well here and let you all know that this is Graham Hamilton 👀👀 and I-

NOBODY TOLD ME HE LOOKS LIKE THIS?? 👀 THIS WAS BEFORE THE CGI WAS SLAPPED ON HIS FACE. 😮😮

AND BY GOD IF THAT DOESNT LOOK LIKE A YOUNG MARK HAMILL??? THEN WHY REPLACE IT WITH THE SCARY UNCANNY CGI!!

Here are other frame of references:

He looks more like Luke THAN the Luke CGI 😭😭

Bro’s an exact carbon copy. He looks like Disney secretly cloned him Kamino style. Im cryin ya’ll. 😭😂

Here is the most perfect person for the role and Disney said “not enough” and slapped him with unnecessary CGI 😭

His last name is even HAMILton!! What a perfect legacy for Mark Hamill to pass the torch to. Bro was born for this role.

BONUS:

He’s even got the yassified twink vibes that LUKE CHANEL BOOTS SKYWALKER embodies! 💅 He’s so KING! I’m loving it 🤴

I know we all love Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker. (and the originals as well) He is my childhood hero and he will forever be Luke in my heart. No one will ever replace the passion he put in his role.

But it’s been already decades and there is a new generation of new respectable actors and actresses that can give our well beloved characters to life again. Be that or let them be all replaced by capitalistic machines and heartless AI technology. Nothing can ever top the performance and influence of a well-meaning actor putting his heart into a role!

DISNEY JUST RECAST!!

#Disney Recast #Its time for new respectable actors #luke skywalker #star wars #graham hamilton #mark hamill #sw #Disney #sw news #leia organa #han solo #carrie fisher #harrison ford #luke chanel boots skywalker #tbobf #the mandalorian

[certifiedlibraryposts]

Protip to Libby users, if there are titles you're interested but none of your cards have it, make use of the Notify tag! Libby will tell your libraries there's interest in that title, and you'll get a notification if its added!

Your mileage may vary here, but I put a Notify tag on an audiobook yesterday and it became available today. I can't say for sure if it was all because of me or if there was other interest in the title and I just hopped on at the right time but I'm honestly amazed at the responsiveness there.

#library guides #honestly im considering reaching out to the library that got it and just being like 'hey can you tell whoevers in charge of that thank you' #it probably helps that its a relatively new title (The Gingerbread Men by Joanna Corrance it came out last year) #while the other notifies i have are. rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead. #and MASH actor Mike Farrel's memoir lol #i meant to schedule this post tomorrow but it got six notes in like ten seconds so i think the library fans will be seeing it

[christianbalefanatic]

Christian Bale attends the premiere of Velvet Goldmine at the Village East Cinema in New York, New York (October 26, 1998)

Re: Christian Bale as Arthur Stuart in Velvet Goldmine (1998) dir. Todd Haynes

#icon #movies #celeb #hollywood #drama #film #actor #christian bale #christianbalefanatic gif #New York new york #new york premiere #velvet goldmine #1998 #arthur stuart #todd Haynes #1990s #1990s actors #1990s icons #1990s hollywood #1990s films #1990s movies #1990s movie premieres #christianbalefanatic #christianbalefanatic edit

[davidtennantgenderenvy]

truly we are in the midst of a Tennaisance

#David tennant #baftas #AND THEY STILL REFUSE TO NOMINATE HIM #like clearly they know he’s one of the most influential and beloved actors of his generation #and will get them good ratings because his army of fangirls will tune in in droves!!! #But nominate him? Nahhhh #seriously though this is his YEAR he’s gonna do great and I will be watching #I hope they give him a musical number. As a treat #I also love that it’s the film baftas bc David is obviously WAY more prolific in television 💀 #Like David I love you but you’ve been in like three movies that are actually good #Doctor who #good omens #broadchurch #destiel news