{"id":2539,"date":"2026-10-12T10:03:53","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T05:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2539"},"modified":"2026-10-12T10:03:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T05:03:53","slug":"andrew-garfield-explores-sam-altmans-story-in-ai-film-artificial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2539","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Garfield explores Sam Altman\u2019s story in AI film \u2018Artificial\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Curiosity and fear powered actor Andrew Garfield\u2019s performance in Luca Guadagnino\u2019s OpenAI movie \u201cArtificial\u201d, which premiered at the London Film Festival on Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Garfield plays OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in the film, \u200bwhich unfolds over two decades and chronicles the conception and growth of the artificial intelligence \u200ccompany behind ChatGPT and Altman\u2019s dramatic firing and rehiring in 2023.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the reason I was drawn to it was just pure curiosity and fear and really trying to understand as deeply as possible the people who are ushering us into \u200bthis next phase of the world,\u201d said Garfield.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a sense of courage and imagination and resilience \u200bthese people at the top of these companies must have, the ability to withstand \u2060so much criticism and such a microscopic lens on them as people.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s important that we \u200bdo that because we need to know who\u2019s in power and who\u2019s creating our new world,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n

Garfield, who \u200balso starred in the 2010 Facebook origin film \u201cThe Social Network\u201d, did not contact or meet with Altman in preparation for the role.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know Sam, and I have a lot of compassion for a person who\u2019s my age, almost, and there\u2019s a \u200bmovie being made about him,\u201d Garfield said. \u201cIt\u2019s not him, but it\u2019s an idea of what this story \u200bis and his part in it.\u201d<\/p>\n

OpenAI did not respond to a Reuters request for comment. In an interview with Vanity \u200cFair, Altman \u2060said he was not expecting an \u201caccurate depiction\u201d.<\/p>\n

With a screenplay by Emmy-winning \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d writer Simon Rich, \u201cArtificial\u201d stars Russian Oscar-nominee Yura Borisov as OpenAI co-founder and former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, who left the company after his involvement in Altman\u2019s brief ouster.<\/p>\n

It follows the ethical differences and conflict over AI safety between Altman and \u200bSutskever, who trained under Geoffrey \u200bHinton, known as the \u201cGodfather \u2060of AI\u201d, portrayed in the film by Mark Rylance.<\/p>\n

The film also stars Ike Barinholtz as Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Monica Barbaro plays Mira Murati, OpenAI\u2019s former technology \u200bchief.<\/p>\n

It was shot in 2025 and comes at a time of mounting \u200bconcerns triggered \u2060by recent incidents at OpenAI and Anthropic that have sparked fears that rogue AI systems may slip beyond human control.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s so fascinating making a film like this when the topic is so relevant right now,\u201d said Barbaro. \u201cWe\u2019d be on \u2060set, watching \u200btwo people argue with each other on Twitter, who we \u200bwere portraying in this movie.<\/p>\n

It was really wild to have that experience. It\u2019s exciting, and it\u2019s also really daunting because you want \u200bto be truthful, but the truth seems to change every month.\u201c<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Curiosity and fear powered actor Andrew Garfield\u2019s performance in Luca Guadagnino\u2019s OpenAI movie \u201cArtificial\u201d, which premiered at the London Film Festival on Sunday. Garfield plays OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in the film, \u200bwhich unfolds over two decades and chronicles the conception and growth of the artificial intelligence \u200ccompany behind ChatGPT and Altman\u2019s dramatic firing and rehiring in 2023. \u201cI think the reason I was drawn to it was just pure curiosity and fear and really trying to understand as deeply as possible the people who are ushering us into \u200bthis…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}