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‘Mountainhead’ Stars Ramy Youssef and Cory Michael Smith Unpack Their Twisted Tech Bromance and Comparisons to Musk, Zuckerberg and ‘Succession’
Ramy Youssef and Cory Michael Smith break down their characters' relationship in 'Mountainhead,' Jesse Armstrong's new HBO movie.
“Mountainhead,” the new HBO film written and directed by “Succession” creator Jesse Armstrong, seems at first to be a story of four tech moguls grappling with fluctuating public opinions about their work while being too rich to deal with any material consequences. Venis ( Cory Michael Smith), the wealthiest in the friend group, deals with that tension most acutely: The latest update to his social media platform Traam has given users access to AI tools so advanced that the images they create are indistinguishable from reality. There’s a scene that’s cut from the film that gives a bit of context to their history as titans of tech, where I’m trying to hustle him to get the AI back and I’m like, “We bootstrapped it, brother!” Just recalling how brutal the early days were.
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