Chris Pratt has made it very clear that he isn’t a fan of the AI-generated "actress" Tilly Norwood.
Speaking to Complex News, the 46-year-old actor said he's "never seen" Norwood in a movie, adding: "I don’t know who this bitch is… She ain’t nobody real."
Created by AI-first production company Particle6, Tilly is a synthetic character presented as a young aspiring actor. The digital "actress" made its official debut during the Zurich Summit Festival in September 2025, and immediately received backlash from audiences and industry insiders.
The Screen Actors Guild–American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) condemned the creation in a statement, after it was reported that Tilly was "seeking representation."
"To be clear, 'Tilly Norwoo' is not an actor, it's a character generated by a computer program that was trained on the work of countless professional performers — without permission or compensation," the union wrote. "It has no life experience to draw from, no emotion and, from what we’ve seen, audiences aren’t interested in watching computer-generated content untethered from the human experience.
"It doesn’t solve any 'problem' — it creates the problem of using stolen performances to put actors out of work, jeopardizing performer livelihoods and devaluing human artistry."
Pratt made similar comments to Complex News while promoting his sci-fi action thriller Mercy. Pratt plays Christopher "Chris" Raven, an LAPD detective who is accused of murdering his wife. The film follows the officer as he attempts to prove his innocence to an AI judge and avoid the death penalty.
Pratt told Complex News that AI will probably lead to job displacement within the entertainment industry; however, he remained convinced that actors would "be safe."
"I do think that there's certain streamlining [in] creative content and visual effects [that] likely is gonna displace some people because it’s just more effecient," he explained. "There was a long time where CGI was never going to be used, it was always going to be stop motion, but then Steven Spielberg saw a CGI dinosaur running through the fields and said, 'I have to do this.' This makes the experience better for the viewer; ultimately, you’re giving a gift to this viewer."
Pratt referred to AI as a "tool" that could be very beneficial in "the hands of a craftsman." But he emphasized that AI creations could never achieve what a human could.
"AI can be great. It can make that craftsman an even better artist," he said, "but it’s never going to be the artist."
Pratt’s Mercy co-star Kali Reis echoed the sentiment, adding: "The reason why we watch movies, the reason why we go to the theater and we sit down and watch movies, we cry, we laugh, we think … we can empathize," she said. “Nothing against Tilly… but no matter how real an AI image is, I feel like that soul and that connection with that real human experience, you just can’t replace that."