"In a dishonest age when truth is under siege, media attention shatters into a thousand shards of glass and nothing is quite what it seems, what could be more precious than a voice of authority? Cue Morgan Freeman, an actor who has portrayed a US president, Nelson Mandela and the Almighty, and replaced Walter Cronkite on the voiceover introducing the CBS Evening News."
"I'm a little PO'd, you know, he says. I'm like any other actor: don't mimic me with falseness. I don't appreciate it and I get paid for doing stuff like that, so if you're gonna do it without me, you're robbing me. Has it already been happening? Well, I tell you, my lawyers have been very, very busy. They have already found cases and are pursuing them? Many, yeah. Quite a few."
Morgan Freeman's voice is described as a rich, cultivated baritone shaped by disciplined diction training with instructor Robert Whitman. He emphasizes speaking distinctly, hitting final consonants, and doing exercises to lower and relax the voice. Freeman objects to unauthorized AI replication of actors' voices, calling such mimicry dishonest and likening it to being robbed, and reports that his lawyers are pursuing multiple cases. The late James Earl Jones consented to AI use for Darth Vader, but Freeman has not. The appearance of fully synthetic actors such as Tilly Norwood prompts rejection because the performances lack real human authenticity.
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