AI Oscars Controversy, Emilia Pérez Debacle, and Watching Self-tapes for Only 4 seconds?! | EP 15

Welcome to Episode 15 of the Actor's Guide to the End of the World!

This past weekend, Rían celebrates his birthday going to see a soccer match as E-Kan anxiously awaits the Super Bowl (Go Birds). They talk about America’s obsession with football and E-Kan explains why the Philadelphia Eagles get a bad reputation and why he thinks football is the ultimate team sport.

Also, E-Kan and Rían dig into the controversial comments made by an Atlanta casting director about how she only watched actors’ self tapes for four seconds. This is a conversation that actors need to hear. Was it overblown? Is this common amongst casting directors? What can actors learn from this? And what is the job of the casting director and what does this say about our industry moving forward? They talk about it their experiences working for a casting office as a reader and how it will change how you approach auditions.    

And Emilia Pérez... where do we begin? They give their thoughts on Karla Sofia Gascon's Oscar campaign that came and went. They also break down the AI controversy in the Oscar competition this year with The Brutalist and Emilia Pérez, both Best Picture nominees that have admitted to using AI. Is this going to start a trend? Do actors care if performances are altered? Or are we being naive? They also discuss what is the need to perfect performances through AI and is it worth the backlash.  E-Kan shares insights from a VFX supervisor about how they use technology to alter films that blew his mind.

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https://deadline.com/2025/01/atlanta-casting-director-self-tapes-viewing-1236273084/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/timlammers/2025/01/21/emilia-prez-and-the-brutalist-ai-controversies-explained/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2025/02/05/emilia-prez-director-disavows-karla-sofa-gascns-tweets-and-slams-actress-for-playing-the-victim-all-the-films-controversies-explained/

 

Latinos on Emilia Pérez- https://www.indiewire.com/features/commentary/emilia-perez-latinos-racist-does-academy-care-1235090484/

AI at the SuperBowl

https://www.adweek.com/media/no-ai-super-bowl/

Hidden Gems - Emmet Kirwan’s "Accents" show on tour

https://www.civictheatre.ie/whats-on/accents/

Dog Man (2025)

 

Time stamps:

(00:00) Intro

(03:45) The Super Bowl and Philly Eagles' fan reputation

(07:09) Rían explains how sports differ in Ireland than the US

(09:44) Casting director 4 seconds controversy

(17:29) Do casting directors watch every self tape? 

(19:14) Lessons actors can learn from this 

(22:14) Atlanta growing pains

(23:59) What actors can learn from being a casting director

(26:59) Emilia Pérez and Karla Sofia Gascon disaster

(29:44) The Latino problem with Emilia Pérez

(33:15) AI Controversy in the Oscars

(35:19) Do actors care if performances are altered by AI?

(40:04) The things that are altered with technology

(41:59) Hidden Gems