Last year when Betty Gilpin was filming Mrs. Davis, the Peacock dramedy about a nun who vows to destroy a powerful artificial intelligence, people were barely even talking about ChatGPT — it was, as Gilpin described, “niche.” Now, as audiences binge the show, it’s the topic on everyone’s mind. “As a parent in real life, I think a lot about our dependence on the internet, and I do think it’s natural for humans to want a workaround to risk,” she says. “But it’s also tampering with the things that make us human.”

In the series, Gilpin plays Sister Simone, who, while attempting to enact her revenge on the bot known as Mrs. Davis, gets caught up in ancient religious conspiracies (she is, essentially, searching for a riff on the Holy Grail). The actress has thought a lot about the consequences of a more technologically advanced world and where her own values line up against her character’s. “I think AI wants to go after things that are easy to monetize and wants us to put blinders on and only go after our individual goals,” she said. “If we take those blinders off, we’d realize, oh, we forgot to fix global warming and to build a democratic society where everyone is living peacefully. [Instead], there’s billionaires on yachts.”

Gilpin was joined by series director and EP Owen Harris to discuss their show as part of a THR Presents panel, powered by Vision Media. Harris, who previously worked on Black Mirror, described Davis — which was created by Tara Hernandez and Damon Lindelof — as a love child of the pandemic. “We were all feeling particularly lost and were looking for answers about what was going on in the world,” he says. “[Damon and Tara] were talking about, wouldn’t it be great to be able to press a button and have this all-seeing eye show us the way?”

Betty Gilpin attended the FYC event for Mrs. Davis on June 1, 2023 in Los Angeles. Check out 21 HQ images from the red carpet and panel that were added to the photo gallery!

Skull Island is an all-new animated series aiming to take viewers on an unforgettable adventure with a group of explorers. Charlie (Nicolas Cantu), Mike (Darren Barnet), Cap (Benjamin Bratt), and Irene (Betty Gilpin) set out to rescue Annie (Mae Whitman) from the ocean which leads them to eventually discover Skull Island. The explorers take a journey throughout Skull Island filled with bizarre creatures, terrifying monsters, and the one and only Kong.

Skull Island is created, written, and executive produced by Brian Duffield, Jacob Robinson, Brad Graeber, Jen Chambers, and Thomas Tull. Skull Island stars Nicolas Cantu, Darren Barnet, Benjamin Bratt, Betty Gilpin, and Mae Whitman.

Skull Island starts streaming on June 22 exclusively on Netflix.

The phrase “unlike anything else on TV” gets thrown around a lot. But in the case of “Mrs. Davis,” the words apply.

“Mrs. Davis” is unlike anything else on TV — currently or otherwise. It’s the story of Sister Simone (Betty Gilpin), a strawberry jam-making nun who is attempting to bring down a malevolent artificial intelligence known as Mrs. Davis. And how will she force the end of this evil AI? By retrieving the Holy Grail, of course. (Yes, that Holy Grail.)

The fact that a show that lampoons the all-important algorithm is even airing on Peacock, a streaming platform, feels a little bit like, well, a miracle. The show had somewhat inauspicious beginnings. After Damon Lindelof finished work on “Watchmen” (which won 11 Emmys), he felt like maybe he could help “curate” someone else’s vision instead of starting from scratch. He had a stack of scripts, including one called “Mercy House” by “Big Bang Theory” writer Tara Hernandez. The script, according to Lindelof, was “about nuns in this weird post-apocalypse. They were taking care of kids who had dates stamped on the bottom of their feet. And when their dates arrived, the kids died. That should be very sad. But this script was actually kind of funny. And I was like, who the hell is Tara Hernandez?”

As Hernandez and Lindelof started working on the project, Hernandez offhandedly told Lindelof that she wished there was an app that could tell her what to do. “It was like, nuns over here; Siri telling us what to do over here. Is that a TV show? And the next thing we knew we were blowing up horses,” Lindelof said. That’s another thing that no other TV show has that “Mrs. Davis” does: exploding equine.

But who would play the nun crusading against artificial intelligence?

During the pandemic, Lindelof kept in touch with Gilpin, who starred in his controversial 2020 feature “The Hunt.” She would occasionally inquire about what he was noodling around with.

“I asked him what he was working on and told myself, like, I’m just a friend asking another friend what they’re working on. I’m not asking for me. But I totally was asking for me,” Gilpin said. When he told her it was a show called “Mrs. Davis,” Gilpin immediately thought, I need to play Mrs. Davis.

Instead, Gilpin remembered, he told her: “’There’s a wacky, badass nun character. Will you read the script?’ Like, I want to say ‘Yes,’ before I read the script, but I’ll pretend to be cool and aloof and read the script first.”

Gilpin admitted that she would have played a tree in the background if Lindelof and Hernandez had asked. She was shocked to find her character was front and center in the wild universe that was already so vivid in that first script. “It’s so entertaining and well written that you see it in your mind immediately,” Gilpin said. “And even though this show is a braid of 57 genres, I knew exactly what they were talking about and was desperate to be a part of the world that they were creating.”

“Mrs. Davis” does bop around. One week it’s singularly focused on a Hands on a Hard Body competition (with mystical medieval overtones), the next it’s a Paul Thomas Anderson-style family drama, and yet another week it’s a wacky, island-set science fiction show akin to Lindelof’s beloved “Lost.” Did we mention the band of “Fight Club”-quoting, cell phone-snapping Luddite alpha males? Or the stage magic?

If there’s one mystery left lingering after the first season, it’s whether “Mrs. Davis” will return for a second season. Adding to the confusion was Peacock’s decision to move the show from the Drama Series category to Limited Series for Emmy consideration. “We wanted to make sure that we made something that felt like it was complete,” Lindelof said. “That said, if the audience wants to spend more time with these characters, we just have to come up with an idea that’s worthy of making more.”

Gilpin is already on the case. “I bother both Damon and Tara constantly. I am pretty bad at pretending to be aloof,” she said. “I’m like, ‘When are we doing Season 2?’ I would do this job forever.”

Source: The Wrap

[Editor’s Note: The following interview contains light spoilers for the “Mrs. Davis” series finale — Episode 8, “The Final Intercut: So I’m Your Horse.”]

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Nicolas Cantu, Mae Whitman, Darren Barnet, Benjamin Bratt and Betty Gilpin are set to lead the voice cast for Netflix’s animated series Skull Island, part of Legendary Television’s monsterverse that includes King Kong and will debut on June 22, 2023.

The anime series portrays a group of shipwrecked characters trying to escape a dangerous and mysterious island. Cantu will perform the voice role of the protagonist, Charlie, alongside Mae Whitman lending her voice to the role of Annie, Barnet as Mike, Bratt as Cap and Gilpin as Irene.

Skull Island will see kind-hearted explorers rescue Annie from the ocean, only for their heroism to land them on the treacherous Skull Island, home to bizarre creatures and terrifying monsters, including the mighty King Kong, whose IP is owned by Legendary.

Skull Island is created, written and executive produced by Brian Duffield, with Jacob Robinson, Brad Graeber, Jen Chambers and Thomas Tull also executive producing. The animation is by Powerhouse Animation, known for their work on Castlevania and Blood of Zeus.

Legendary Television is also doing the upcoming animated series Tomb Raider for Netflix, which picks up after the events of Square Enix’s Tomb Raider video game reboot trilogy, which was released in installments from 2013-18 and was developed by Crystal Dynamics and Eidos Montréal.

The anime Skull Island series follows the 2017 feature Kong: Skull Island that reintroduced the world to King Kong.

Source: Hollywood Reporter

One wouldn’t think that a gorgeous lady of wrestling would have much in common with a nun, but thanks to the physical comedy in Mrs. Davis, Betty Gilpin found the connection.

“GLOW was such a crash course in using [everything] from your skull to your toes — everything is involved in your character,” Gilpin, on the latest episode of EW’s The Awardist podcast, says of the Netflix series where she played a wrestler. And that series “totally” made her more comfortable playing a nun who’s on a mission to destroy a Siri-like AI technology in the Peacock sci-fi dramedy Mrs. Davis, where she gets caught up in a bit of action on her journey. “I mean, a onesie-panted habit is a wrestling costume in itself,” she says, laughing.

But Gilpin recalls one scene, though — episode 3’s rodeo and the Excalibattle, where people compete to see who can keep their hands on a large replicate of the sword Excalibur the longest — that she and costar Jake McDornan thought their physicality was going to get them in trouble.

“Jake and I would always tease each other, especially [in episode 3] where we were so far from each other physically, doing scenes together — he would be doing something on the rock that I couldn’t really see, and I would be doing something in the stands — and then on lunch breaks, we would see each other and I’d be like, ‘Did you see how big I was going with my hand movements?’ He’d be like, ‘Did you see what I was doing?’ And we’re like, “Are we going to acting jail? Is this too much?” Gilpin recalls as they tried to go bigger with their actions. But they ended up finding comfort in their surroundings. “We were very unsure how it would all land ’cause we were really swinging for the fences. Everywhere, especially at Excalibattle, you would turn and see a background character with horns and blood and screaming. It’s like, well, I guess if everyone’s going for it, we should go for it too.”

Source: Entertainment Weekly

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