Lisa Kudrow is “nervous” about her digital image being used by studios after she dies.
Lisa Kudrow has opened up about fears over her digital image being used
The Friends star has opened up about the use of artificial intelligence in the TV and film world, after her character Valerie in The Comeback found herself being used in an AI sitcom.
Asked if she worries about her own image, Lisa told The Hollywood Reporter: “Yeah, I do. But I don’t know. It’s a tool but generative AI technology is a different thing than people playing around and making fan art or fan fiction.
“The problem becomes when they can monetise it and create something that can be used however they want. Or when studios decide they can use your image however they want.
“But they need permission from the estate if someone passes away. It makes me nervous. It does.”
Lisa, 62, previously revealed she’s “excited to play older roles”, having previously had Botox for the first time aged 60.
She told The Hollywood Reporter in a separate interview last month: “I think it contributed to my eye irritation and this weird pattern on my forehead, so I’m probably done with it now anyway.
“I am scared of having to see myself looking like my grandmother one day, but I’m excited to play older roles.”
And the actress believes she’s defied industry expectations with what she’s managed to achieve in her career, having felt like an afterthought on Friends, in which she starred as Phoebe Buffay.
She told The Independent newspaper: “There was no vision for me, and no expectations about the kind of career I could have. There was just, like, ‘boy is she lucky she got on that show.’ “
Meanwhile, Lisa has since hit out at “mean” behaviour of the largely-male writers on Friends.
Lisa told The Times magazine: “There was definitely mean stuff going on behind the scenes.”
Of the 12-15 people in the largely-male writers’ room, she added: “Don’t forget we were recording in front of a live audience of 400, and if you messed up one of these writers’ lines or it didn’t get the perfect response they could be like, ‘Can’t the b**** f****** read? She’s not even trying. She f***** up my line.’ “
