Meet the Creator of the AI Actress Hollywood Loves to Hate: “You’re Gonna See a Lot of Tilly Norwood Next Year”

At the top of a Zoom call with Eline Van der Velden, she immediately wonders if Tilly Norwood will be able to join meetings too. “I think she will, very soon,” beams the Dutchwoman.

You might remember the news that talent agencies were looking to sign the computer-generated “actress” completely blew up Hollywood in September. Norwood, a British 24-year-old created entirely by Van der Velden and her team at production outfit Particle6, was taking flak from entertainment’s top stars.

Toni Collette, Emily Blunt, Amy Poehler, even Ryan Reynolds in a Mint Mobile ad, you name it — seemingly no one was happy at the prospect that we’d be seeing Norwood in our films and TV shows. SAG-AFTRA slammed Norwood in a statement released in the midst of the uproar: “It has no life experience to draw from, no emotion and, from what we’ve seen, audiences aren’t interested…