While most actors would consider themselves lucky to play a single character for any length of time, getting accustomed to one role can start to affect the way you approach others. Case in point: Charlie Cox, who thinks a habit picked up while portraying Marvel’s Daredevil may have cost him a shot at playing a young Han Solo.
According to ScreenCrush, the actor told THR that he has learned to avoid eye contact while playing a blind Matt Murdock (Daredevil’s alter ego), and that it has affected him during other auditions. Here’s a snippet of the interview:
“I had gone to an audition — one of those things that are super secretive and they don’t tell you, but I’m pretty sure it was for the Han Solo reboot — and halfway through it, the casting director stopped me and said, ‘Why aren’t you looking at me?’ I realized I had gotten into a habit of not making eye contact, because the only thing I had done for two years is play someone who is blind. I never got invited back, probably because they couldn’t figure out why I was acting like a complete idiot.”
While it’s easy to understand how Cox could have made the mistake, it’s also easy to understand why producers went another way. A character with the charisma of Solo needs to be able to look people dead in the eye … and then shoot them under the table before they can shoot him. #HanShotFirst
Alas, the role went to Alden Ehrenreich (Hail, Caesar!), but Cox is keeping busy with an off-Broadway play called Incognito, in which he plays six separate characters — all of whom have 20/20 vision. “It’s been really fun to look people in the eye,” he said.
There’s still some question over when/if season 3 of Daredevil will happen, but if you’re itching to see the actor don his superhero duds, don’t fret. He will also take part in Netflix’s The Defenders, which sees Daredevil team with Iron Fist, Jessica Jones, and Luke Cage to clean up New York City’s streets.
China just gave Hollywood a cautionary tale about AI filmmaking. Sanxingdui: Future Past, billed as the country's first fully AI-generated movie, hit theaters on October 23 and bombed at the box office.
According to Futurism, the film's reported $1.5 million production budget landed on more than 10,000 screens. Yet it pulled in only about $181,000, averaging roughly $20 per screen, making the budget difficult to recover.
Some of the best shots in Grok Imagine’s AI-made Odyssey don’t contain actors. Ancient landscapes stretch into the distance. Close-ups of grimy hands suggest people who have touched something rougher than a keyboard. For a few seconds, the illusion holds.
https://twitter.com/imagine/status/2113712964419063911
YouTube videos could soon look better without eating quite so much data, right? Thankfully, the platform plans to introduce a new video format called AV2 on its web player in early 2027, promising more efficient streaming and potentially fewer playback hiccups on slower internet connections. The big headline is a roughly 30% improvement in compression efficiency over AV1, YouTube's existing video format. That doesn't guarantee every video will use 30% less data, but it could make streaming a little easier on both internet connections and data allowances.
What is AV2, and why should viewers care?