Salma Hayek’s all the time been fearless however there was one position that gave her pause: Herself.
Or no less than a comically terrible model of herself that she performs within the first episode of “Black Mirror” Season 6, titled “Joan Is Terrible.” IndieWire’s Steve Greene referred to as this episode one other in “the show’s ‘ripped from the WIRED headlines’ approach to technology.” Annie Murphy performs a tech govt who unwittingly offers away her life rights through the phrases and situations she did not learn (as all of us do) for an app referred to as Streamberry.
The app pulls sufficient information to reconstruct Joan’s life through AI, and it turns into a TV present starring Salma Hayek taking part in Joan. Sure, Hayek is taking part in herself, an actor who’s taken the a part of taking part in Joan.
However after all it is a very, very heightened model of Salma Hayek. “I acquired to discover the ideas and clichés individuals have about me and be self-deprecating,” the actress informed Radio Occasions (through The Independent) of the episode, which additionally stars Ben Barnes, Michael Cera, and Rob Delaney.
“It’s as if I created an alter ego the place I might do probably the most disgusting, grotesque issues that you’d by no means do in actual life,” Hayek mentioned. “And have permission to do this.”
“There are such a lot of moments that shocked me within the script. There’s one enormous one which I needed to come to phrases with, and made me ask myself, ‘Do I actually need to do that? Am I going to get in hassle?’’”
Evidently the episode will get much more meta than its preliminary idea. “Black Mirror” has been exploring the outer-limits prospects of expertise for the reason that present premiered on Britain’s Channel 4 in 2011. Creator Charlie Brooker imagined stunningly actual alternate realities the place the U.Okay. Prime Minister may be coerced by social media into having intercourse with a pig, or that sometime our whole lifestyle, and our hierarchical place inside it, could also be decided by the individuals round us consistently giving us Uber-style star rankings.
That life rights ought to immediately come below assault, because the intersection of the legislation and tech turns into ever extra slippery, is barely a leap.
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