Harvey Keitel, who is at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival for the third time to present a screening of Martin Scorsese’s “Mean Streets,” has revealed he is shooting a new film written by his wife, actor Daphna Kastner. Speaking with Variety at the festival, the actor said he is working on something that “really excites me.”
“My wife wrote a script; she’s a writer, director, actress… We’re working on it,” he added. “It’s sort of guerrilla warfare. It’s not a Hollywood film, but it’s being done in Hollywood because we live there. We have a lot of college students on the crew, and we’ll see where we go.” The actor did not go into further details regarding the project.
Keitel, who was co-president of the Actors Studio from 1995 to 2017 and has been a great champion of acting as an art form throughout his career, expressed concerns over the rise of artificial intelligence. “Danger is in front of us,” he said.
Keitel mentioned he recently read an article about an audiobook of Homer’s “The Odyssey” narrated by an AI-generated replica of Michael Caine’s voice. Caine recently licensed his voice to AI audio technology company ElevenLabs, becoming part of the company’s Iconic Voice Marketplace. The British actor’s approved digital clone is now available for a vast array of projects, the first one being an audiobook of Homer’s classic.
