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‘Sunny’ Star Rashida Jones Isn’t Afraid to Be Replaced by Artificial Intelligence — ‘but I Could Be’

Speaking with IndieWire about Katie Robbins' Apple TV+ series, the 'Sunny' star reflected on television and artificial intelligence.

The series’ first two episodes, which started streaming Wednesday July 10 (new installments release weekly through September 4), introduce an investigation into a mysterious plane crash that forces Suzie to grapple with the shocking disappearance of both her young song and husband, Masa ( Hidetoshi Nishijima, “Drive My Car”). “The Office” favorite describes a difficult but rewarding tech-centric production, complete with an engineering team, that helped humans make the most creative use of cutting-edge innovation that Jones said still “isn’t quite there yet.” That’s a good thing, according to the actor, who seems to have had her eyes wide open when agreeing to lead a send-up of Big Tech for a company like Apple. Jones also reflected on the state of multilingual series and network comedies, as well as the addictive elements of TikTok, the predictive qualities of science fiction (remember, she wrote on “ Black Mirror ”), and the existential query that underlines it all: Sunny, what makes us human?

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