Andrew Garfield says he prepared “day in and day out” for months to play Sam Altman, “listening and watching footage of him … trying to find my version of that character.”
Where he landed on the co-founder and CEO of OpenAI wasn’t complimentary – calculating, manipulative and nihilistic.
“There’s such a heavy responsibility … playing a live person,” he told a packed Alice Tully Hall at the New York Film Festival’s world premiere of Luca Guadagnino’s Artificial Monday night. “I feel a tremendous amount of compassion for what that must [be] like” on the receiving end.
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