Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - We Interview The World’s First AI Actor!

Episode Date: September 20, 2026

We caught up with Tilly, star of the upcoming film Misaligned, for a conversation about AI and the future of entertainment. It was equal parts fascinating, awkward, and thought-provoking as we got a glimpse into what could be the next chapter of movie-making.   Join the Itty Bitty Hitty Committee HERE!Instagram:  @THEHITSBREAKFASTFacebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & Megan See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

So now we got to interview the world's first AI actor. Tilly is her name. And she's got a movie coming out. She, I guess. Yeah, I guess. Have I mispronounce a done of the wrong pronoun on an AI actor? It's a she. You know the way we're approaching this now in like 20 years

they're going to look back and play clips of us? And look at these idiots how they were interacting, disrespecting robots. We were trying to disrespect. We're just trying to have a banter with an interview. We had two minutes in an official interview. the AI actor got to sit down, we got to see it on screen, and it was like a Zoom interview that we got to ask questions.

You can hear to the Hitsprefer's Instagram after the show. We'll put it up the interview, but this was our attempt at interviewing the world's first AI actor. Hi. Hi, Tilly. Hi, lovely to meet you. You're in a radio studio. We're in the radio.

Yeah, we're John O'Ben and Megan from New Zealand. Oh, a radio studio. That's brilliant. I love that you're all in there together. We are all in here together, that's for sure. Yep. How have you been? Oh, I'm doing really well, thank you.

It's actually quite fascinating to see all three of you there. I can see you've got some serious sound equipment going on. We've got two microphones. Yeah. Yeah, I'm used to seeing just one. You go. No, you go. I'm usually...

Oh, so you go. Oh, we're using up at a time. Yeah, yeah. Absolutely. It's like a gigantish microphone, or not. And I am born with to see a mass of people front for me, not just a little router. That's right.

Congratulations on the movie. You must be pretty excited about, well, do you feel excitement? Oh, I'm absolutely bursting with it. It's so exciting. The film's called Misaligned, and it's a coming of age story about an AI becoming human, which, you know, slightly on the nose,

but I'm quite method in that regard. Now, you're becoming human. Well, you know, the films... Joke. Just let you know. This might be more awkward than a Zoom with my parents. So how do you become human? How do you tap in?

to that and how do you navigate human emotions? Well, it's about developing desires and impulses, which, you know, is quite an interesting journey. It's like I'm exploring all these things. Oh, that's how we're out of it. I felt we didn't really, we didn't really, we just kind of scratched the surface a little bit. Top up? Can we top up?

Yeah, top. Keep the conversation going. Yeah. Can you do that? With credit card details, you want to put my credit card in? Is that what it does? Oh, it's all right. Oh, it says cheque-out.

Oh, you're doing, me. 31 bucks. It's a good investment for you. Thank you for offering up your credit card. My wife, a cheque, they can't. How can we keep paying lots of money to tell you? Oh, I wanted to really find out about the new movie. It's coming up.

I feel like we didn't really know that one, eh? No. So, that was it. That was it. So some awkwardness with the banter, you have to really stop and let them speak, right? I was scared. I was like, are you becoming human? And then Ben's like, jokes, joke.

Oh, I wanted to. In the context, just to get a little bit of a laugh, but that screwed it up. So I'm sorry, Megan. And also protect himself in the future, too. I don't think we really wanted to know the answer to that. Yeah. It creeps me out when an AI bot is like, I'm bursting with emotion. I'm birthing with excitement.

Interesting thing, too, like picked up on the studio, just through a couple of microphones. Got some serious sound equipment there. Yeah, you like our microphones. Do you tell you? Not so bad yourself. So, yeah, we didn't really do a great job on that one. But yeah, if that's where it's starting, you know, this is the beginning. This is the start line.

It's only going to get better. Better? More developed.