[dramatic music]
[door banging]
- [Nadia] Hi.
- [Casting Director] Hi.
You can leave your purse there.
[feet shuffling]
- [Casting Director] A little nervous?
- A little.
- [Casting Director] Is it your first audition?
- It's been a while.
Mostly self-tapes.
- [Casting Director] I'll start
with an easy question then.
What's your name?
And what part are you reading for?
- Nadia.
My name is Nadia, and I'm reading for Olivia.
- [Casting Director] Very good, Nadia.
So why Olivia?
What makes her so attractive to you?
You struck me more like Amaya,
maybe Jewels, Olivia's old friend.
- She's a strong character.
The way she talks, I like the way she talks.
She seems confident.
- [Casting Director] She's a wh*re.
She has to be confident.
Would you describe yourself
as a confident person, Nadia?
- I am,
I guess.
- [Casting Director] Are you as confident as a wh*re?
I asked you a question.
Are you as confident as a wh*re, Nadia?
- I can be.
- [Casting Director] Can be what?
- As confident as a wh*re.
- [Casting Director] How?
- How what?
- [Casting Director] How can
you be as confident as a wh*re?
What does a wh*re do?
- Sorry, is this part of the scene?
- [Casting Director] A bit of role playing.
Indulge me.
So what does a wh*re do?
- She has sex with people.
- [Casting Director] That's all?
I assume you have sex with people too.
Does it make you a wh*re?
- No, it doesn't.
Look, I'm not sure this is anything
to do with this audition.
- [Casting Director] But you're as confident as one
and you have sex with people.
So if my math is correct,
you might as well be as much of a wh*re as Olivia here.
- She doesn't like to be a wh*re.
- [Casting Director] So do all wh*res.
But she keeps sucking dicks, doesn't she?
- Yeah. She keeps sucking dicks.
- [Casting Director] Are you
comfortable to play someone
who sucks dicks for a living?
- I'm an actor.
- [Casting Director] Show me.
- I can do the part.
- [Casting Director] I don't need you to do the part.
I need you to play someone
who sucks c*ck for a living, Nadia.
- How am I supposed to do that?
- [Casting Director] The man is standing before you.
He's a paying customer, Nadia. Come on.
You've done this many times. Get him excited.
Tell him, I want to suck your d*ck.
Come on, don't be shy.
Say it, I want to suck your d*ck.
Get him excited, Nadia.
- How about you go f*ck yourself?
[feet shuffling]
[door banging]
Desert hills and lonely places
Heavy still without your traces
Holding every breath we wasted
Tender for your soft embraces
Under the darkest sky all for you
Don't wanna see the night fade to blue
Under the dark sky long for you
Don't wanna see your red fade to blue
I wanna flow with you over holy water
I wanna crawl into all your secret corners
I wanna brace myself we go heavy harder
We go heavy harder
Heavy
I wanna lose myself in you
Wanna lose myself in you
You
Before you fade to blue
[cars swooshing]
- What we witnessed in the
Matheson accident was a glimpse
into the possible scenario
other tech intellectuals
have speculated over the last two decades or so.
The possibility of machine learning
removing agency from its owners,
performing tasks according
to their own code of conduct.
That's all the organization gave me.
Anything you want me to add or remove?
Was it clear?
I have a tendency to add too many interjections,
uh's and hmm's.
- We clean all that in post.
We have enough bureau to cover most of the cuts?
- Oh, okay.
- Judith, you did a terrific job.
I wouldn't add or remove a thing.
Regarding interjections,
we'll edit all the imperfections out.
And believe me when I say, in front of the camera,
we all think we stumble more than we actually do.
A bit of editing here and there and it'll be flawless.
Right, Nadia?
- Do you remember the Coleman interview, Mrs. Green?
- Oh, yes.
That was an excellent one.
My husband still talks about that interview.
- Well, then you know what we do.
- You know what we do. - Excellent.
Then I'll leave you to it.
[dramatic music]
- So I spend eight hours learning lines for this.
I finally get in this room
and I'm in there doing my scene,
or at least trying to,
and he goes, "Suck my d*ck."
- Whoa. He said what?
Just like that in your face?
- I mean, he said it in the context of the scene.
"Pretend you're a wh*re wants to suck the guy's d*ck."
- That's why he needed a wh*re.
[group laughing]
- Yeah, so screw it.
I left.
Back to self-tape shenanigans.
- Don't expect a callback on that one.
- Hold on.
Shouldn't you report the guy?
My wife can refer you to a good lawyer
if it comes to litigation.
- What? No.
Do you think I have time for that?
- Litigation?
That sounds more expensive than useful.
I mean, did he touch you?
Someone saw you?
No. Hence, the room is Vegas.
What happens there stays there?
- Yeah, but you know what I mean.
It's like rolling a dice in a
role-playing game of perverts.
You never know what you're going to get.
- And the staircase stardom
is paved with nasty assholes.
- Oh, it's a hard staircase to climb.
Be careful where you step.
[computer chimes]
[mouse clicking]
- No way.
I just booked an Indie short.
- You just got Natural 20 on that dice.
- An Indie short?
Where'd you get that from?
- I think it was from the audition two weeks ago.
I recall it being for a commercial,
but you never know with some casting agencies.
- See?
Not all trolls want to eat you after all, Nana.
Don't forget us when you're famous.
- Hey, terrific. Kudos to you.
- Terrific indeed.
[dramatic music]
[door creaking]
[door banging]
[cars swooshing]
[birds chirping]
[door banging] [dramatic music continues]
[siren wailing]
- [reporter 1] After a vote of confidence
on the first ballot,
the Prime Minister is facing
the challenging decision
to open the country to countless refugees
from the w*r in East Europe.
Some are against the motion
for it jeopardizes the lower
strata of urbanized area
in the northeast coast of England.
- [reporter 2] Additionally,
entrepreneurship is an important skill to hone
even as an actor in order to market yourself.
We are our own product
and we have to be able to sell that product
as close as that may sound.
[dramatic music continues]
- Hey, dad. How are you?
- Hey, sweetie. Hello.
- I have the best news ever.
- Oh, good. - I'll tell you in a second.
- You got food to go with it?
- Oh, yeah. - Okay.
[knife cutting]
What is this again? General chicken?
- General style chicken.
They had the tofu version,
but I wasn't sure you liked it.
- No, it's good.
It's better than tofu.
Tofu always tastes like sponges.
But now, how would I know?
It's not like I ever had sponges.
[both laugh]
- Tofu's good for you, dad. - Yeah, well.
So what's this film about?
Is this another one of those student things where
the mom of the director makes food for the crew?
- No, dad. It's actually paid.
- Oh yeah? - Yeah.
They sent me the script.
It's a small role.
I have to wear a wig, speak with a British accent,
and be all flirtatious.
- Flir...
What?
Okay, I don't like it already.
- I don't have to kiss anyone or anything.
Don't worry.
Or do anything inappropriate.
- Yeah? - Yeah.
- Thank God.
- But it will be good for my demo reel.
I mean, it's the speaking role.
I get to meet people who are in the industry, you know?
So more of making films,
and less of what I'm doing right now.
- Well, what's wrong with what you're doing right now?
- I don't know.
It's just,
it can be uncreative and repetitive at times.
Sitting in front of a computer the whole day.
We make these interviews
that they go out into the world,
and then they get misused by half the news agencies,
and then tossed aside like a piece of gossip.
It's a job, I know.
I shouldn't complain.
[Ricardo speaking in foreign language]
The banana cake she'd make
for the rehearsals of the "Seagull."
- Aye, that cake.
That cake would beat half
the pastry chefs in Vancouver.
- And most directors mom scrap services.
[both laughing]
[slow dramatic music]
[engine purring]
[keys clinking]
[slow dramatic music continues]
[feet shuffling]
[slow dramatic music continues]
- [Reporter 1] The accident
raises concern over the years
of artificial intelligence
in matters of safety and security,
especially in government
institutions as Judith Clare,
an expert from the Center for
Machine Learning expressed.
- The possible scenarios
that other tech intellectuals have speculated on
over the last two decades or so.
The possibility of machine learning
removing agency from its owners.
[slow dramatic music continues]
[slow dramatic music continues]
[Nadia speaks faintly]
- [Production Executive] I have the contract
and the NDA that we need you to sign.
We'll need you to sign here.
- And NDA?
I haven't read the full script.
I barely know what the scene is about.
- [Production Executive] It's standard procedure.
- Okay.
- [Production Executive] Thank you,
and let me know if you need anything else.
- I will. Thanks.
- [Gary] I've spent seven years in office
and consider it like duty,
to be open with the public
and leave no stones unturned.
- [Roman] Okay, that's good, Gary.
Just less slurred speech.
I mean, you look intoxicated,
but we need to hear what you're saying clearly.
Make it real.
- Yep. Okay.
Let's just go through it one more time.
- [Roman] A little less campy, all right?
- Sure. Yeah.
Many have speculated on the nature
of my relationship with Lola,
especially now with all these
f*cking refugees at the door.
This crisis...
- Put your phone away.
Recording is forbidden on set. - I'm sorry.
I'm so sorry.
- [Roman] Can I have silence please?
- Sorry, Roman. Please continue.
- Thank you. - It's okay.
I can just pick up where I left off.
- Me and Leonard.
Well, for a while, not sure.
How long?
Maybe a year, year and a half?
- Yeah.
- He's such a sweetheart.
We met at Formentera, in the club.
What was his name?
Jimmy Changler, or something like that.
- Something like that. Yeah.
- We went for drinks that same night,
and well, you know how things unfold? [chuckles]
Ugh, I'm just so happy that we can finally be open,
be honest about our relationship.
You can take me to all those fancy dinners now.
Be part of his life, you know, like a real partner.
- [Roman] And cut. Excellent.
- I didn't squeeze it too much, did I?
- Oh no, it's fine.
Totally fine. - Okay.
- Was that good?
Do you need us to do something different or maybe,
- [Roman] It was perfect.
Thank you so much guys.
- Great.
[suspenseful music]
[keys clicking]
- When I said the ordinance
might cause protest in the community,
I don't think it conveys enough sense of urgency.
- Yeah.
How about the line, "Bring
concern on frightened citizens?"
- Better. Definitely better.
You know Marty,
he has a flare for the dramatic.
Every piece needs to be an
anteroom to the end of the world.
- Yeah. Classic Marty.
Okay. I have an idea.
Let me see if this works.
Okay.
Listen to this.
- The frightened citizens have been concerned about
this new ordinance that may cause
a service disruption in their community.
- There we go. It's perfect.
Do we have enough B roll for these cuts?
- Oh yeah, we have an entire library
on North Shore neighborhoods.
- Marty's going to love it.
Not an award-winning piece, far from it,
but at least we're helping these people.
- [assistant] Hey, the agency called
asking about the North Shore video.
- When can you send it? - Tell them within the hour.
Still have add graphics.
- [assistant] All right. Thank you.
[phone buzzing]
- Oh, I need to get this one.
- Sure, sure. Don't even ask.
- Dad?
- [Ricardo] Oh, hey, Nadia.
Did you see the news?
- No, I didn't. I'm at work.
Is it something important?
I have a deadline.
- [Ricardo] Well, I,
I don't know.
- What's going on, dad? - You're on TV.
They say you're the secret partner
of the UK Minister of Immigration.
- What?
- [reporter] The woman says the love interest
began more than a year ago.
- He's such a sweetheart.
We met in Formentera at the club.
What was the name? Jimmy
Changler or something like that.
- Something like that, yes.
- [reporter] But only now,
the UK Minister of Immigration,
Leonard Reese, visibly inebriated,
explains his decision to come forward.
- Many have speculated on my relationship with Lola,
especially now with all these f*cking
refugees knocking at the door.
This crisis has taken its toll on my family
and the department has done enough,
fending off the press and their asinine questions.
- [reporter] This video has
certainly shaken the ground
with already uncertain future for the minister.
[dramatic music]
- Wasn't any mentioning of the footage
being used for any other purposes?
News coverage? Additional media packages?
How about a license for streaming it
as a mockumentary or gossip piece?
- This is actually fairly strict.
According to this NDA,
they own everything they shot that day,
including the image and likeness of the actors,
regardless of the final use of footage.
She can't sue them for defamation, libel or slander.
And most importantly, she
cannot in any circumstances
reveal publicly that she was
the actor performing the role.
This is crazy. - Jesus.
Who are these people?
- Did you talk to the person in charge
of the production about this?
The producer or the casting director?
- No.
An NDA's standard practice.
And I just signed it.
There's no mention of anything other than
we're sh**ting a short indie film.
They paid me in cash at the end, which is a huge red flag.
God, I'm so stupid.
Should have been more careful.
- We don't know who's behind the video,
what their ultimate goal is,
or the technology behind it.
- [Theresa] Sorry, minister.
Theresa Won from "The Keen Observer."
You understand it's quite hard for us, at least for me,
to believe that someone will
fabricate something like that.
That is clearly you in the video.
It's your face, your voice.
- [Journalist] Also, why did you decide
to disclose the affair in such a problematic moment
for the country with what's happening in our borders?
- There was no affair.
The video is fake.
That's not me talking in that dingy bar.
- It's hard not to believe this minister's affair.
- I wasn't in the UK two days ago, dad,
dressed like a teenager, drunk at a pub,
hanging out with the Minister of Immigration.
- Nadia, I'm not saying that.
He's...
I don't know.
On one side, I know you did the indie film,
on the other, it really looks like
that UK minister of immigration in that video.
- It wasn't him.
It was an actor paid,
employed like I was to perform a scene.
I mean, we were rehearsing together and everything.
- I don't know.
That actor really looks like that minister.
It's all I'm saying.
- I recorded it.
[suspenseful music]
Here.
Here it is. Look.
See?
That's an actor.
It's not Leonard Reese.
[suspenseful music continues]
- [Zach] It's a deepfake.
- Yep. Hundopy deepfake.
- What do you mean? - They hired an actor
who looked like Leonard Reese,
made him say controversial sh*t,
and then put Reese's face on him.
- Yeah, I know what it means,
but can they do that with this level of efficiency?
- Half the world believed it.
Doesn't get more efficient than that.
- This is a basic rendering
of deep fakes in a university class.
[pensive music]
- The people behind the Reese video must be experts.
- And they can do the same with his voice as well.
- What's Roundcast Media's email,
the news agency in Toronto?
Text it to me.
[pensive music continues]
- [Reporter] Minister Reese's wife
declined a comment on the video.
Sources say she met with a
divorce lawyer this morning
to possibly negotiate with separation.
[pensive music continues]
The breaking of the story has caused massive delays
on government support in facilitating
the entry of new refugees,
mostly arriving on small boats across the Channel.
Britain has set out details of a new law
barring the entry of asylum seekers.
A proposal some charities say could be impractical
and criminalize the efforts
of thousands of genuine refugees.
- Minister Reese should
resign effective immediately
as Minister of Immigration.
Well, this country needs our stronger borders
and a trustworthy person at the helm.
- [Reporter] A new turning point in the
Leonard Reese case this morning.
A video surface showing an
actor impersonating Leonard Reese
in a similar setting as the one in the infamous video.
The actor seems to be performing the same script
to the one Leonard Reese recites in his interview.
The clothes and sets of the sh**ting
appear to be identical as well.
This new revelation could throw doubts
in the previously released video,
revealing the possible
fabrication of Leonard Reese's affair
that's threatening to end his career.
- That's good. That's really, really good.
- We got hold of the actor in the video.
His name is Gary Holden and that's what he had to say.
- Well, it's all a forgery now, isn't it?
I mean, very obviously somebody has taken
an old video of mine, but to do what?
To detract attention away
from what's really important.
Okay.
The long and the short of it is,
I had nothing to do with this video.
- He's lying. He's just lying.
We were together at the bar.
How can they just
Are they gonna believe this guy?
- Regardless if they do or not, as the news lady said,
it will cast out on the Reese video.
- Yes, it will split the consensus in two.
Some will believe that this
Gary guy's telling the truth
and others will believe the
conspiracy theory behind it,
that the video's actually fake.
- Right, which is not a conspiracy theory.
It's the actual reality.
- Information overload 101.
- What if they want to interview me?
- You do what Gary did.
You shut the up and play the game.
They'll still sue your a*s.
- 879-0970. Okay.
Thank you. Thank you so much.
[phone buzzing]
- Yeah.
- Hi, Gary. Gary Holden.
- Yeah, who's this? - It's me, Nadia.
We shot a short film a couple days ago.
- Yeah.
What do you want?
- Well, I saw your interview
and why did you say that you
weren't involved in that video?
- Because I signed an NDA and I'm a professional.
- Yeah, right.
But we're on the news.
- It's the price you pay for being a showbiz kid.
- This video could compromise
both our careers and our lives
and we have to speak out.
We have to tell the truth.
- Come on. Listen up, sweetheart.
Shut your mouth and act like a pro.
- Are you out of your mind?
My face is on f*cking Channel One
and I'm supposed to go on with my life?
- Look, when the behind the scenes footage leaked, they,
they threatened me, okay?
They told me that they know
where my daughter goes to school.
So I,
I can't do what you're asking.
I won't talk about this in public.
[suspenseful music]
[cars swooshing]
- [Reporter] In light of the new findings
by the UK district attorney
and following the deliberation
of a task force created
to investigate the case,
the UK Home Secretary is reconsidering the details
of Leonard Reese's resignation
after the release of a new recording
showing an actor pretending to be the UK minister
in the infamous affair video,
many now believe to be fake.
Despite the comments from the actor in question,
the Secretary of State is reopening the case.
[somber music]
[light flicks]
[somber music continues]
[toothbrush buzzing]
[truck beeping]
- Hi, my name is Nadia
and I'm reading for the role of Mabel.
How can you be so stupid? Can't you see what she did?
Her mother kicks her out of
the house and what do you do?
You invite her over?
- [Teleprompter] Because she's my friend.
But what do you know? You're just a coworker.
- [Nadia] This isn't going to work. I'm done with you.
[phone buzzing and chiming]
[suspenseful music]
Hey, Zach.
- [Zach] This is crazy.
When I saw it this morning,
sh*t, I couldn't, - Whoa. Slow down.
What is happening?
- [Zach] Oh, you haven't seen it?
- What haven't I seen?
- [Zach] The interview.
[feet shuffling]
[suspenseful music continues]
What the f*ck are you looking at?
I wanted to do this interview
to tell all the people out there to f*ck off.
- [interviewer] So is it true
about you and Leonard Reese?
- What do you think?
That I sleep with people I don't love
like that frigid b*tch of his wife.
Asking for divorce?
Yes, sweetheart. More of that.
Nobody wants to see your ugly face anyway.
You know, Leonard,
he made me squirt three times the first time I met him.
Yes.
Boom.
What you going to do about that slag?
Huh? Huh?
Yeah, that's right.
It's Lola time, baby.
It's Lola time. [laughing]
- Her name is Lola Duff.
She could make a sailor blush,
she's loud and curse word's aficionado
and her song a bit obnoxious.
- Foul mouth and without mincing words.
She's has a lot to say about the affair,
the refugee crisis, and her online persona.
- She's real.
Authentic.
- I mean, she's hot, man.
I don't care what she says, but like,
- She's awesome.
I mean, the straightforwardness,
this girl doesn't give a blind fudge
about journalists, politicians.
- I mean, - People find her revolting
just because she swears a lot.
You know, f*ck here, f*ck there.
But good for her for standing her ground
in the face of all these other buffoons.
Seriously.
- Oh my God. I love her.
She's amazing.
She's out there just saying whatever she wants
and she's got the inside scoop.
Like, someone has to do it
and good for her for having the ba*ls.
- Well, I think that Lola Dust
should just stick to what she knows
and that certainly is the politics aside.
Her videos keep popping up on my feed.
Quite annoying actually.
- Hi. I'm Lola Dust.
I look to promiscuous tart,
but I'm also your mommy.
- Mommy.
- Not in front of the child.
- Is this the person we want to promote?
The face of our political discourse.
Really?
- Don't think she's classy.
Don't really think she has much to say, much to add.
- She goes around sleeping with a politician
and now she talk sh*t, controversial sh*t,
just to get famous.
I don't believe it [speaks faintly]
with stuff like viruses and [indistinct]
It's just not right.
- She's spreading like wildfire.
They're calling it the LolaGate.
- I've never seen so many memes
about a single person on my feed.
- Guys, please.
- Sorry.
- Okay. I'm ready with the camera.
You look like that girl from the UK scandal.
- Chloe.
- Sorry. Bad joke.
- Are you sure about this?
What if they threaten you like they did with Gary?
- This is my insurance.
If something happens to me
or my father, then people
will know it wasn't an accident.
And if they sue me, they have to send a cease
and desist letter with names
and addresses so then I'll know who I'm dealing with.
- You did your homework?
All right then.
If you need a lawyer, - We know, Zach, okay.
Guys, can we speed this up?
We have a session with the client in like 30 minutes.
- Yeah.
Just make sure my cheeks and
nose aren't overexposed, okay?
I need people to see that she looks like me.
- Yeah, exposure's good.
And it's recording.
You can start anytime.
- Hi. My name is Nadia.
You've seen my face on TV recently.
I had a wig on me and my name was Lola Dust.
Well, that woman was fake.
She's been generated through
a technology called Deepfake.
In other words, she's not real.
They've used my features and my voice
to create an imaginary character
to discredit the UK Minister of Immigration.
It was all filmed on a professional set.
We were told to act in a certain way
and we had a script we had to learn.
I was tricked into thinking
I was filming a short Indie film that was fictional,
but this has been used to flip my life upside down.
[dramatic music]
[keyboard keys clacking]
[dramatic music continues]
[mouse clicking]
[dramatic music continues]
[laptop chimes]
[dramatic music continues]
[suspenseful music]
[engine purring]
[suspenseful music continues]
Hello.
Hello.
[suspenseful music continues]
Hi.
- Sorry, we're closed. - Oh.
I'm not here for a drink.
- You're too pretty to be here for any reason at all.
- I'm an actor.
I shot a scene here a couple weeks ago.
I was hoping you could give me any information
on the people who rented this place.
- Damn. Those folks.
I asked them for some kind of an insurance.
They gave me cash instead.
Half these stools don't even come down at night
so cash is always better than a piece of paper.
They did their thing and left.
- Do you remember the person who was in charge
or the name of the producer
or anyone else involved in the sh**t?
- No.
The guy that paid never mentioned his name.
Actually got the impression
people didn't even know each other.
Foreigners, I think he said, were the people paying.
You know, they didn't break any glass, they paid well.
Might bother asking more.
[phone buzzing]
- I need to get this.
Thank you for your help.
- Yeah, no worries. - And for the scotch.
[dramatic music continues]
[siren wailing]
Hey Margaret.
What did they say? Did you talk to them?
- Roundcast media won't touch your video.
- [Nadia] What? Why?
- "Newly Week," "The Keen Observer" and "The Populous Voice"
are all doing a feature piece on her.
Roundcast can't jeopardize the client's agenda
with something so contrarian like your video.
- Contrarian?
She doesn't exist, Maggie.
- She's the talk of the town.
The way she speaks, the thing she says,
it's weeks if not months worth of content.
- Months?
- That's how they see it.
Engagement is through the roof,
and to advertisers, she's golden goose material.
I'm sorry, Nadia.
- Thank you, Maggie.
f*ck.
[tense music]
Hello, wankers. Lola here.
Jesus f*cking Christ.
These refugees, huh?
They keep coming, don't they?
f*cking pests.
It's like when your toilet breaks
and sh*t spreads all over the place.
Yeah?
Well, that's our borders right now.
Literal sh*t running from
whatever border they're having in Eastern Europe,
and they all expect to
become citizens of our country.
Can you believe it?
These f*cking people.
I mean give them blow jobs
included with the ticket, will you?
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I will not be mugged off in my own f*cking country.
- It's quite inflammatory statements
to put out there in the public, ma'am,
especially in times like this.
- Yeah, exactly.
Which is why I would like to report the people who
made these videos, whoever posted them.
- To report them?
Ma'am, did someone force
you to record these statements?
- How many times do I have to explain this to you?
That is not me in that video. You understand?
They stole my identity, my
face, and put it on another girl.
- That's not my daughter.
Some criminal good with computers are making these.
You need to find them and arrest them.
- Hello?
- I agree, the resemblance to the girl in the UK scandal,
it's uncanny really.
- There is no girl in the UK scandal.
You understand?
That is my face, but they made me look like a different
person saying crazy things.
- Ma'am, I mean, to be honest,
why would you want to be
associated with people like this?
- What people?
- These Britons and their scandals.
I mean, we got enough starlets
to mock here in our own country.
- Are you for real?
Can we please file a report to search
and stop whoever uploaded
the videos from making others?
Can we do that?
- I can write it as you said it, sir.
- Thank you. - Let's go, Dad.
This is so pointless.
- [officer] Have a good day, sir, ma'am.
[pensive music]
[computer chiming]
[pensive music continues]
[pensive music continues]
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- All my respect to g*y people,
but f*cking hell, they're everywhere.
[engine purring]
I'm just saying, wait for the g*y trend to be over
and see how many people are going to jump back
into the d*ck into vag*na train.
I've never eaten any beaver
myself and I'm not planning to.
Although I do think lesbians
could teach men a thing or two valuable,
- We got the point.
- I don't really get the point.
Why are they so persistent?
I mean, I understand the first fake interview.
You want to course correct any doubt
there may be over the first video
to throw one at Reese, sure.
But then why keep going?
Making more content, hacking her social media,
stealing her entire online persona.
- It's a response to Nadia's persistence.
The release of the first video, sure,
but then another one called "I Am Lola Dust,"
where she explains who she is,
they see it as a declaration of w*r.
- And I called for help on social media
mentioning that I went to the police
right before she followed everybody I know
and then kicked me off of every platform.
- Which means they're following you close.
Every move you make on your screen,
on your browser, they're watching.
Now, I can try to report your profiles from here
and see if I can get a piece of your identity back.
But my spider senses tell me
it won't be easy.
- That reminds me of our engagement.
- Identity theft and fake videos
remind you of our engagement, my love.
- The reason why I quit cybersecurity.
- Again, with the Hawaii story.
- Well, what's the Hawaii story?
- We were both working on this contract.
It was more than 10 years ago.
- Make it 15.
As old as my uncle's taxidermy.
- Six months of uninterrupted work.
It was the time of the ransomware waves.
You were too young to remember,
but every company had their butts on fire.
We were working nonstop 15 to 18 hours a day
to reinforce security.
But then one day, Dean here closes his computer,
says, "f*ck it. I'm tired."
Let's go to Hawaii,"
which was the most uncharacteristic thing
for a guy to say who grew up in small town America
on video games and comic books.
It's like, "Okay. Let's screw it and go to Hawaii."
We booked tickets and we're on a flight to Oahu
that same night.
I knew there was something brewing under the hood,
but I didn't say anything.
Long story short, the day after in Hanauma Bay,
this guy goes down on one knee.
And while he's proposing in the sweetest way,
I noticed a figure standing
under a palm tree staring at us.
Not a smile on his face.
It was f*cking Nathan from the office.
We went offline for just 24 hours,
and they sent a guy to check on us.
- My God.
Nathan's face was hilarious.
- Yes.
So hilarious that I quit the assignment the next day,
stayed in Hawaii for an extra week
to contemplate all my life,
and I enrolled in a journalism
program the day I got back.
Cheers to me.
- I think what my wife is trying to say is that
you should have your very own bucket moment, you know?
Turn off the computer, your phone,
and whatever happens to Lola, let it go.
You're not her.
She's just a simulaicrum in a notion of once and zeros.
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[Nadia gasping]
[birds chirping]
[page rustling]
[spoon clinking]
[cereal crunching]
[birds chirping]
[car beeping]
[door banging]
[birds chirping]
[tires crunching]
[thunder crackling]
[rain pattering]
[car swooshing] [door banging]
- Excuse me. I said excuse me.
You that b*tch that's been blabbing on TV?
- [pedestrian] f*cking Lola Dust.
- Running away. [cameras shuttering]
- Why don't you to run back to your country, huh?
We don't need your bickering here.
All talk and no action.
[dramatic music]
- Guess what? This is my new place.
Do you like it?
Well, the f*cking government
couldn't handle Lola's truths.
Yeah.
My mouth got their asses too uncomfortable,
and they kicked me out of the country.
Supporting the oil industry isn't as bad
as having an opinion on refugees.
f*cking pussies.
Climate is warming and I'm freaking cold.
Yeah, access blocked.
Am I supposed to follow everything
your mainstream media says?
What is very successful (speaks faintly).
And what about the reasons
you're not allowed to talk to blacks?
These are all conspiracy theories.
That's not good news.
Well, guess what?
Millions and millions of people will leave.
So what are you going to do?
Disregard it?
- Hello? - Hey, Nadia.
I'm calling you from a private phone.
We've done more research
on the people behind Lola Dust.
They're very dangerous.
I think it's safe for now to lay low and not interfere.
- Yeah, they somehow hacked my apartment.
I mean, she was outside my building on my computer.
- [Margaret] I saw the video,
and that's why I'm saying do not interfere.
I'll touch base with you a bit later.
See what we can find.
Until then, please be safe.
- Okay. I will.
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[group chattering]
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[tires screeching]
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[horn honking]
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[dialer ringing]
- Hey, Nadia. Where are you?
- I'm in my car. I can't go back home.
- Whatever you do, don't get exposed.
As I said, let these people do what they need to.
- I can't.
I can't let them use my face, my body, and now my home.
There are photos of me, of her all around town.
- Nadia, Nadia, listen to me.
This is temporary.
Lola Dust will become irrelevant.
Like any other influencer wannabe.
- I want an interview live at the studio.
- What?
No. Don't be irrational.
You know what people are gonna say about you,
that you're just another lookalike who wants
to start another scandal.
- We'll tell the story, all of it in details.
- Let me talk to my supervisor, see what he says.
But don't get your hopes up.
- No, I won't. I won't.
But please try and get me in front of a camera,
and live so no one can interfere.
- I'll see what I can do.
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- [Nadia] Hey dad. Did you call me?
- [Ricardo] Nadia, where are you?
I saw the people in front of your building.
- I'm on my way to your place.
- I'm not sure that's a good idea.
I spotted a camera earlier
today just across the street.
They know where I live, so
they're probably waiting for you.
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[door banging] [car beeps]
[feet shuffling]
[classic music]
- Beautiful.
Okay, how about a spin here? Awesome.
Okay, this is looking really good.
Okay.
I'll have you walk in a frame right here.
- Nadia. - What happened?
We were worried.
- I tried to call you. - They're everywhere.
- Who's everywhere? - Outside my house,
outside my father's.
The people who created that monster,
they don't want me to interfere.
- Hey, hey, hey, hey, listen, okay.
She's not real, okay. She's not real.
- Is she her?
Are you?
Oh my God. I knew it.
I'm a huge fan.
The things that you say are
just so impactful, so amazing.
Removing mercury from vaccines,
how we should abolish g*y marriage,
the horror of the pedophile
celebrity ring in Hollywood.
We need to act and act fast if we want to win the,
- What the f*ck are you talking about?
- I believe what you say, that our world
- Shut the f*ck up.
- What? - Shut the f*ck up.
- Whoa. Whoa.
Hey. - Get out of here.
You're like everyone else.
Get out of my life. - Enough.
[phone buzzing]
- It's your phone, Nadia.
Nadia, it's your phone.
[feet shuffling]
- [Margaret] Nadia, they approved the interview,
but we can't do it at the studio.
We rented a private office.
I just sent you the address.
- Okay. I'll be there.
[suspenseful music]
[door banging]
[birds chirping]
[tires crunching]
[seatbelt unbuckling]
[door banging]
[dialer ringing]
Hey, Margaret, I'm here in front of the building.
- [Margaret] Are you at the right address?
- Yeah, I think so. - Okay. Come in.
- Okay.
[door creaking]
Margaret?
[suspenseful music]
[phone buzzing]
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[phone buzzing]
[suspenseful music continues]
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[phone buzzing]
- Hello?
- [Deepfake Operator] We're done playing games with you.
Stop immediately or else.
- Dad.
[suspenseful music continues]
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No!
Dad.
Dad.
No, Dad.
Wake up.
I'm gonna f*cking k*ll you.
[dramatic music]
[dialer ringing]
- [automated voice] The
wireless customer you are calling
is not available.
Please try again later.
[dialer ringing]
[tires screeching]
[dramatic music continues]
- Dad.
Dad.
- Honey, what's going on?
What's wrong?
Hey, what happened?
Look, look at me.
- I saw you on the floor. - What?
Me?
- The man who hit you.
Nobody hit me.
- You said not to come here.
You said there were people outside with cameras.
- When did I say that?
- When I called you this morning.
- Nadia, I haven't talked to you since,
since yesterday.
- What? [dramatic music]
Okay, okay, okay. - No. No.
- Okay. - This is not true.
- Nadia? Nadia?
- This is not true. - Nadia?
Where are they?
- [Ricardo] Nadia, there's nobody here.
- Where the f*ck are they?
- [Ricardo] Who are you looking for?
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Nadia.
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[door knocking]
- Margaret.
Margaret.
- Nadia?
What the f*ck was that?
A private office?
We can't do the interview at the studio.
Who do you work for?
- An interview at the studio?
- You've said you'd set up an interview with me,
this afternoon?
- The night you came here,
it was the last night we talked.
- No, I talked to you on the phone.
You were in a video call.
It was your face, your voice.
- It wasn't me, Nadia.
- It was a deepfake.
An AI generated response to
keep you away from Lola Dust,
to render you scared, powerless and misled,
while your doppelganger
thrives in between two countries,
influencing politics and people
and becoming a role model
for the rest of the world to admire.
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- Okay, be very tiny. - I got the thing right now.
- [parent] Okay.
[Nadia speaks faintly]
- My girl.
Well done now. It's so cute.
It's your [indistinct]
[somber music]
Hello. Say hi.
Hello.
- That wig was the first thing that she brought
just out of the immigration office.
The first token of her American dream.
"New country, new me," she said.
She wore it all the way home,
which was this small attic that we
rented from an old lady on Renfrew.
And while the others that came with us
were in the employment office looking for a job,
your mother knocked on a door of a drama school.
Barely spoke a word of English.
I guess she just didn't want
to be like the other foreigners,
working in a factory and paid minimum wage.
She had one ambition,
and nothing big enough stood in her way.
Checkov and Ionesco, Ibsen.
"Dolls House" made her cry
no matter how many times she read it.
And your mother never really cared
what people thought about her acting or
how her broken English sounded to an audience or
that you can't perform Nina's monologue
in the "Seagull" in Spanish.
She just kept going relentlessly.
And on that last day in the hospital,
she just brushed the doctors
and their diagnoses off,
just brushed them off,
even in the face of death.
She truly believed she would succeed.
[dramatic music]
- Today's thought for you wankers.
This is a golf club.
Would you use it in self-defense?
Absolutely f*cking not.
Would you give it to a teacher during a mass sh**ting?
Sure, if you love the look of a pile of dead children.
Get yourself a g*n and a
membership to a sh**ting range,
and k*ll the m*therf*cker.
Brraaah.
Don't be a p*ssy.
[Lola imitates g*n firing]
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- Here. This is it.
This is him.
- The director of the short?
- Yeah.
- "Roman Jalinsky,
publisher of gossip magazines
such as 'Celebrity Allie' and 'Gossip Gonzo.'
He's been accused of fraud, identity theft,
and sex trafficking, but never convicted.
His company Radical Blink still controls most
"of Mr. Jalinsky's online
publications and video platforms."
- This guy's the king of "Little Live Gossip."
Wow.
- Search Radical Blink on the
business registration archive.
I wanna see where they're located.
They have an office in the
Ravelstock Tower in downtown.
- Hidden in plain sight.
- I'll give them a call tomorrow.
- No need. I'll pay them a visit.
And if they chase me away,
I will sit on their doorstep
until Roman himself shows up.
[pensive music]
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- [Margaret] Hey Nadia,
Lola Dust's live streams happen at night
along with most of their content.
You can access the elevator,
but you have to find a way into the building.
[pensive music continues]
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[elevator dings]
[feet shuffling]
[pensive music continues]
[feet shuffling]
[pensive music continues]
[feet shuffling]
[pensive music continues]
[group chattering]
[pensive music continues]
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- He doesn't wanna see you. [speaks faintly]
Those three men are that I went on,
[receiver clacking]
He doesn't want to see you.
Those three men that I went on dates with, just wanted,
- What are you doing here?
Talent's not allowed in this area.
- [Receptionist] Miss.
Miss.
[dramatic music]
This is a restricted area.
[dramatic music continues]
Miss.
Hello.
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[Lola speaking indistinctly]
- These are the most human of traits.
Inventive carnage.
We don't have time to recharge. [speaks faintly]
By the time you open the
cylinder, chamber and cartridge,
you're toast.
Reason why we need automatic weapons, period.
If your property gets attacked by a g*ng of sadists,
what are you going to do?
sh**t them with the six round colt and get f*cked.
Make sure you purchase home
insurance for home invasions,
and get ready to turn your living room
into a w*r zone, baby.
It's that simple.
[computer chimes]
What are you doing here?
Don't hurt me, please.
[computer chimes]
- My name is Nadia and I'm reading for Olivia.
Look, I'm not sure this is anything to do
with this audition.
Sorry, is this part of the scene?
- [Roman] You were perfect in that audition.
You know, the right blend of
shyness, humor, subtle fear.
Our casting director was so proud to have found you.
And here you are now taking over the world.
- Taking over the world?
You stole my identity.
And you turned this girl into a monster.
- A monster?
Did you see everyone out there in that room?
They would pay me, not the other way around,
to have a slice of your success.
Lola Dust,
my biggest achievement.
I have searched my entire life
for the right formula, for the perfect character
that could be loved and hated in the same breath.
And then you walked into that room,
into our lives,
and have given us endless content.
- I can't go back home.
Some people want me dead.
- I guess that's the price of celebrity, isn't it?
There are a million actresses who would die
for your kind of hate.
Now you won the jackpot, kiddo,
and you never even played the game.
- I am not playing your game or any game, okay?
You slammed my face all over the internet
without my consent.
- In a world of fakes,
the actor is king.
Do you see this girl?
When I found her,
she was in dire straits.
I gave her a job, a shelter,
the fame she wasn't expecting.
And then when she found out
what Lola Dust was capable of,
she wanted more, more, more, more.
Now, she thought she had the leverage.
Poor little thing.
So I had to tell her the truth
that she was the third model to play Lola Dust.
Now the others had left.
Tired of the job,
tired of working so hard for
someone else's recognition.
These girls are just placeholders, disposable.
Just a body, not a grain of intelligence
to create their own script.
But that is about to finally come to an end.
We have collected enough data of Lola Dust
for our servers to automatically
generate her content.
Lola, what do you think about politicians?
- Oh, Roman, you and your questions.
All the greatest politicians in history are dead.
That's probably what makes
them great in the first place.
[Lola laughs]
- She is fully computer generated.
Her expressions, her voice, the way she talks,
she gets more and more intelligent every day.
Machine learning at its finest.
- So what?
You don't need the girl anymore?
What are you going to do to her?
- As I said, disposable placeholders.
But you,
you have something that neither those girls
or the computer generated version has.
You're the real one.
Flesh and bones.
So you can go out there,
you can meet the people who matter,
chat with politicians,
stir conversation.
- Don't f*cking touch me.
- See, with your brains, your face and my platform,
we can conquer the world.
- I said don't touch me.
- We have a chance to change history.
Why wouldn't you want that?
- Get off of me.
[golf club swings] [Roman grunts]
You wanna see the real Lola Dust?
You want to see your online celebrity?
Huh?
It won't change anything.
- What? - It won't change anything.
Her face, your face is everywhere already.
Lola Dust is just one of many iterations.
They sold your face all over the world.
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Don't let them use any more of yourself.
- I won't.
[computers smashing]
[items shuffling]
- I got to go.
You can come if you want.
- No, it's okay.
It's okay.
[feet shuffling]
- Okay, dad.
It won't take long.
We could go for brunch after.
- Should get a kick out of this, you know?
- Yeah.
Most well, she would've loved the wake.
[Ricardo laughing]
[dramatic music]
I know you see me, you follow me,
but you don't know who I am.
Look closer. Look deeper.
After all, reality is a thin
veneer hiding ugly truths.
I can only offer you a version of it,
whether you like it or despise it.
- [reporter] A video has surfaced identifying the man
behind the Leonard Reese affair and the LolaGate.
His name is Roman Jalinsky.
According to the investigation,
the man fabricated the video.
- [Nadia] I can be a monster. Or a fairy out of your dreams.
I can turn your perception of the world into an oasis
or a glimpse of pure horror.
- After his resignation as minister of immigration,
Mr. Reese has decided to take matters to his own hands.
- [Nadia] And the truth?
It's where we both meet.
"It's in the middle," they say.
And I want you to come with me,
to join me in my castle, to partake in my feast,
myself and all the other iterations of me
because I'm one and a legion.
And anytime you see me, you see all of them.
And despite my efforts,
you'll be the one to pick and choose,
to discern the monster from the fairy,
the real Lola Dust from the many fake versions of her.
[dramatic music]
Let's be real
I got my hands on the steering wheel
I'm a blue Mustang
I go where I want
I do my own damn thing
So shout all the mirrors
I ain't looking back now
Pedal to the floor 'cause
I'm not a backseat driver
Yeah
I'm taking control
I set the city on fire
Yeah
Wherever I go
Nothing can slow me down
Nothing can slow me down
I take charge
Don't ask questions, I'm just living large
Breaking all the rules
In a flash of light
I will fly them by you
So shut all the mirrors
I ain't looking back now
That'll do the floor 'cause
I'm not a backseat driver
Yeah
I'm taking control
I set the city on fire
Yeah
Wherever I go
Nothing control me down
Nothing can slow me down
I do what I want no matter the cost
Because no one's ever gonna be my boss
I go where I want because this is what I do
So I'll just keep on driving in and enjoy them
I'm not a backseat driver
Yeah
I'm taking control
I set the city on fire
Yeah
Wherever I go
I'm not a backseat driver
Yeah
I'm taking control
I set the city on fire
Yeah
Wherever I go
Nothing can slow me down
Nothing can slow me down
Nothing can slow me down
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