The 60-year-old Hollywood star has urged actors to go through their contracts and check if there are any clauses on AI use that gives studios free-reign to manipulate their performance or appearance once they have filmed their role and check before signing on the dotted line.

Speaking at the Newport Beach Film Festival on Sunday (20.10.24), he began: “Film performance, to me, is very much a handmade, organic, from-scratch process.

“It’s from the heart, it’s from the imagination, it’s from thoughts and detail and thinking and honing and preparing.”

He continued: “There is a new technology in town. It’s a technology that I didn’t have to contend with for 42 years until recently. But these 10 young actors, this generation, most certainly will be, and they are calling it EBDR. This technology wants to take your instrument. We are the instruments as film actors. We are not hiding behind guitars and drums.”

The 'Longlegs' star then warned: “The studios want this so that they can change your face after you’ve already shot it - they can change your face, they can change your voice, they can change your line deliveries, they can change your body language, they can change your performance."

Referencing his appearance as an alternative Superman in the 2023 DC superhero film 'The Flash', which saw the actor digitally de-aged, he advised: “I’m asking you, if you’re approached by a studio to sign a contract, permitting them to use EBDR on your performance, I want you to consider what I am calling MVMFMBMI: my voice, my face, my body, my imagination - my performance, in response.

“Protect your instrument.”