Commentary: Your body, your work? Hollywood is scanning actors’ moves. What that could mean for the rest of us
by Alvaro M. Bedoya, Los Angeles Times
Sep 07, 2023
4 minutes
Twenty years ago, Jet Li was offered a part in “The Matrix Reloaded.” It was sure to be a hit. But the martial artist said no. In his words, the producers wanted to “record and copy all of my moves into a digital library.” To Li, this would do more than copy his body; it would capture his trade. “I’ve been training my entire life,” he said. “And we martial artists could only grow older. Yet they could own [my moves] as intellectual property forever.”
Jet Li’s account is jarring. Yet it’s notable that he was told the job would involve body scanning, told
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