The fight happened before Gadot agreed to star in the upcoming movie Bitcoin, which uses AI to create digital locations, backgrounds and lighting. Gadot accepted the technology being used around her, but refused to let it take control of her actual performance.
Her lawyers studied the different ways producers could use AI and added detailed protections to her contract. That means the producers cannot simply use a computer to recreate her acting or change what she performed.
Gadot said the contract was so strong that SAG-AFTRA, Hollywood’s largest actors union, contacted her lawyers to learn from it. The union represents approximately 160,000 performers and is now fighting to protect actors from having their work copied by AI without proper permission or payment.
The movie’s producer claims AI reduced what could have been a $270 million production to approximately $70 million. Gadot’s contract proves that Hollywood can save money with AI, but actors do not have to give up control of their own work.