Lily Sullivan and David Rysdahl on SOULM8TE, AI Addiction, and Constructing the Perfect Woman: Podcast

Listen via: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Podcasts | More Platforms Lily Sullivan and David Rysdahl join the M3GAN universe with SOULM8TE, a techno-thriller that knows the scariest thing about artificial intelligence might not be what it can do to us, but how willingly we’ll let it. Speaking with Kyle Meredith, the actors dig into the film’s collision of grief, loneliness, dependency, and desire, as Rysdahl’s grieving David becomes increasingly attached to Sullivan’s artificially created Sarah. For Sullivan, that meant approaching the lovebot through the language of constructed femininity and old-school erotic thrillers; for Rysdahl, it meant playing a painfully ordinary guy whose relationship with technology starts looking a lot like addiction. Listen above or wherever you get your podcasts. Rysdahl had just finished Alien: Earth when he headed to Dublin to make SOULM8TE, making AI ethics an unexpectedly recurring theme in his work. This time, though, he saw the technology through the lens of dependency. “SOULM8TE’s angle was like, this is an addiction for David,” he explains, comparing the character’s escalating relationship with Sarah to our existing dependence on phones, al...