During Variety and celebrity.land’s town hall event at the University of Texas at Austin, which reunited the “Dallas Buyers Club” Oscar winner with his “Interstellar” co-star Chalamet, McConaughey explained the thought process behind his recent move to trademark his catchphrase from “Dazed and Confused.”
“It’s coming. It’s already here,” he said, responding to a student’s question about AI. “Don’t deny it. It’s not going to be enough to sit on the sidelines and make the moral plea that, ‘No, this is wrong.’ It’s not gonna last. There’s too much money to be made, and it’s too productive. So I say: Own yourself. Voice, likeness, et cetera. Trademark it. Whatever you gotta do, so when it comes, no one can steal you.
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