When Jodie Foster<\/a> sat down to watch a recent Oscar-winning film, she was left convinced it had been made using AI<\/a>.<\/p>\n Hollywood<\/a> is currently facing a crisis<\/a> with the emergence of artificial intelligence<\/a> within the industry, with many worried that generative AI tools could replace their roles.<\/p>\n Silence of the Lambs<\/a> actor Foster<\/a> is not as concerned as some \u2013 and actually thinks GenAI has already created \u201csomething big and beautiful\u201d in the form of Brad Pitt\u2019s 2025 film F1.<\/p>\n Foster, 63 was speaking on an Aspen Ideas Festival panel titled Who Owns the Future of Hollywood?<\/a>, when she said: \u201cI don\u2019t say this disparagingly \u2013 how could I? This movie went on to make millions of dollars. But I look at a movie like F1 and I\u2019m like, \u2018F1 was made by AI.\u2019 Wasn\u2019t it?\u201d<\/p>\n She said \u201cthe structure was exactly the structure that you would learn in school\u201d and that the film\u2019s stars, including Pitt, Damson Idris and Kerry Condon \u201csaid the lines exactly the way it would be written if a computer was writing exactly what would be the right thing for that time\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cThey were able to dominate the technology to make something big and beautiful and potentially where a lot of the information comes from other places,\u201d Foster continued.<\/p>\n F1, which shot racing scenes during the Grand Prix, follows a Formula One racing driver who returns after a 30-year absence to save his former teammate\u2019s underdog team from collapse.<\/p>\n Brad Pitt in 2025 blockbuster ‘F1’ (Apple Original Films)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The Independent has contacted Apple Original Films and director Joseph Kosinski for comment.<\/p>\n Foster said she believes AI could best be used for \u201csmall, helpful things\u201d, including storyboarding scripts, but expressed fears it would \u201cget rid of a lot of jobs\u201d in Hollywood.<\/p>\n However, she added: \u201cHopefully, things like unions will be able to come in and say, you can use my actor 20 times, but you\u2019re going to pay him 20 times. And I think that\u2019s fair.\u201d<\/p>\n She suggested the goal for filmmakers should now be to \u201cdominate\u201d the tech as, \u201cif we are able to dominate AI consistently over time, we will be able to make things that reflect us, and we can make things better\u201d.<\/p>\n Foster\u2019s latest film, the French mystery A Private Life, features a dream sequence that director Rebecca Zlotowski generated using AI. Foster believes the result was good but admitted that it \u201cmade no sense\u201d.<\/p>\n Jodie Foster in new film ‘A Private Life’, which used AI to make a dream sequence (Ad Vitam)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n F1 was a box office smash hit, earning $634.1m (\u00a3474.2m) worldwide to become Pitt\u2019s highest-grossing film to date. It raced its way to a Best Picture Oscar nomination and took home the trophy for Best Sound.<\/p>\n Over the last decade, AI has found several uses in the movie and television industry, from de-aging actors<\/a>, analysing patterns and behaviours of viewers <\/a>on streaming platforms, bringing back the voices of late actors<\/a> and even helping stitch together entire movie trailers<\/a>.<\/p>\n During the 2023 actors\u2019 strike in Hollywood, historic protections were enacted, with studios now requiring informed consent to use digital replicas. <\/p>\n![\"Brad](\"https:\/\/hermes.media.static.aol.com\/media\/2026\/07\/03\/68085ec4-2fda-38a4-b201-b3b5dc591423\/46ffed90-c1eb-4d74-a74d-ea7879cc3936.png\"\/)
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