One Thing About Scarlett Johansson: Her Legal Action Wig is Always On
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The way men misunderstood Her, the 2013 Spike Jonze movie, should be studied. (I saw a movie about a mustache. My friend Hilton memorably calls Her a movie about an airpod. Men saw a movie about a perfect woman with no wants or needs, just an, um, “old soul” with a sumptuous voice.)
Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, sought Her star Scarlett Johansson’s voice for a new chatbot assistant feature. He’d asked Bryan Lourd, Johansson’s agent, about setting a meeting, per the Wall Street Journal, and spent months trying to get Johansson involved. When the new OpenAI feature went live, Johansson and her team said the voice sounded “eerily similar” to her own. So Scarlett Johansson did what Scarlett Johansson is wont to do: she put on her legal action wig. She released a statement: “After much consideration a…
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