Matthew McConaughey has built a career on a chilled type of confidence: “Alright, alright, alright.”
But when a University of Texas student asked him during a CNN town hall about the future of artificial intelligence replacing actors, there was nothing breezy about his response.
His face grew grave. He stared at the camera. “It’s not coming. It’s here.”
“Don’t deny it,” McConaughey said in a recent conversation alongside actor Timothée Chalamet. “It’s not enough to sit on the sidelines and make the moral plea that this is wrong. That’s not going to last.”
In light of that inevitability, his advice to creators was to “own yourself. Your voice, your likeness, whatever you’ve got—own yourself. So when it comes—not if it comes—no one can steal you.”
