00:00Okay, so Mercy is somehow ambivalent about the use of AI in justice.
00:06How do you see it especially in your field in cinema?
00:09Do you think there could be a future of coexistence or do you reject it entirely?
00:15I don't reject it entirely. I think there's a future of coexistence.
00:18Yeah, I think it's inevitable. I think we were already existing in a world where are coexisting with AI.
00:24But to be clear, you can be precise about how much you incorporate AI or how much it benefits you to incorporate AI.
00:34You can't replace a cinematographer. You can't replace the vision in a director's head.
00:42You can't replace the humanity in the performance of an actor.
00:45There are certain things that are irreplaceably human about art forms in all medium, especially in film.
00:52There are a lot of ways you could streamline visual effects.
00:56I think there are certain jobs that are inevitably going to be outsourced to AI because it is an industry and because ultimately it's a business.
01:05And so, but I think that, and I don't take that lightly.
01:10I hate for anybody to have their jobs displaced. That sucks.
01:14And hopefully by bringing the cost of filmmaking down, there will be more opportunities for filmmakers and for writers and actors to make their own movies.
01:24If you could make your own $200 million blockbuster for no money, then I think more actors and more filmmakers will emerge and there will be more content and more entertainment for people.
01:33That's my sort of, you know, cautiously optimistic take on it.
01:37Yeah, I can understand it. And talking about industry, for some time now, we have seen you doing a lot of sci-fi and a lot of action movies.
01:45Personally, I love that you're committed to that, but I'd like to know if you ever consider returning to the comedy in the style of Buzz and Wreck or making sort of prestige films.
01:55What would you like the future of Chris Price would like?
01:59I don't know. The answer is I would love to continue to surprise myself and challenge myself.
02:08I loved being on Parks and Wreck. Comedy is the easiest thing for me to do.
02:13It's the most natural for me to do. It's always my comedic instincts.
02:17Anytime I do a movie like this, the director's always coming in and being like, stop trying to be funny.
02:21Like, it's not about being funny. Oh, sorry.
02:24So that's something I would really love to do. It's my true passion. I love comedy.
02:28I grew up wanting to make people laugh my whole life. I grew up in a family of people who laughed through every bit of pain in our lives.
02:33I love comedy. So I would like to get back to that at some point when the time is right.
02:38And in terms of prestige films, you know, I love it. I love the Oscars. I've watched almost every movie.
02:45I'm still working through the list, but I love watching these actors doing prestige films.
02:50And every time I watch one, I sort of dream about working with some of these filmmakers and working alongside some of these people.
02:58It's just there's not a lot of time in your life to do everything.
03:02And also, you know, so I take that as a challenge as well.
03:06The beauty of my profession is unlike, say, professional football or something like that, a 46-year-old man is not even past his prime.
03:14I can work until I'm 70 years old, 80 years old, 100 years old.
03:17And so I've got several decades left to hopefully explore all of these things.
03:21I'd love to challenge myself in every way possible. I'd love to make people laugh.
03:25I'd love to really work with and collaborate with an incredible filmmaker to try to do something that I've never done before in terms of a performance.
03:32I think I'm capable of doing all of it. And slowly I'd like to do all of it.
03:38I hope so. I ask everyone this question. When the movie comes out, do you read professional reviews later?
03:46Do you enter in social media, letterbox maybe, or do you prefer to not know what the audience thought so you can live in peace?
03:54Gosh, you know, it kind of depends, right? Like if they're all great reviews, I love reading them.
03:58But I think you have to really, I think over time I've learned through experience and through some of the teachers and mentors that I've worked with that the best thing for your mental and spiritual health is to truly divorce yourself from the outcome and the reaction, positive or negative.
04:15Positive or negative. Because I think if you read something and it's really positive and then it fills you up, then inevitably when you read something negative it's going to drain you.
04:23So I think having a sense of peace around yourself that's rooted in something far more real than the artificial world of Hollywood and critics and all of that stuff, that's where you can find your peace.
04:35And mine's going to be around my faith, it's going to be around my wife, around my children, that kind of stuff keeps me sustained.
04:39But I gotta say periodically I do like to read them. I think it's also good to keep your finger on the pulse of what people are liking and not liking.
04:47And so, you know, being critical of yourself is inevitable and sort of important as you're trying to evolve, especially as an artist, but you can't take it too seriously.
04:56Because a lot of the times, to be honest, I think the people who criticize these things are maybe a little bit out of touch with reality anyway.
05:04So I think they can, you know, maybe they just don't like me or maybe they do like me.
05:08And if someone really liked me and I did something terrible, they'd probably say it was good.
05:13And if somebody really disliked me and I did something great, they might say it's bad, you know. So, I don't know. I have to divorce myself.
05:19By the way, I'm a terrible critic. I would be an awful critic. I really admire critics because it's a real skill.
05:26I know a lot of actors say they hate critics. I don't hate them. I think what they do is really hard to do.
05:31Like, I love everything. I'll read a review of something like, that movie sucked.
05:35I was like, what are you talking about? I thought that movie was awesome. Well, I don't get it.
05:38I wouldn't be a good critic. I don't have great critical thinking skills.
05:41Well, we have run out of time. Oh, sorry.
05:44But it was a very nice interview. Thank you very much.
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