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Emily Blunt Says Algorithms ‘Frustrate Me’ and ‘I Hate That F—ing Word’: ‘How Can We Let It Determine What Will Be Successful?’

Emily Blunt says she's "frustrated" over algorithms making decisions in Hollywood and they shouldn't be relied on to predict what can be a success.

Ahead of the release of her summer tentpole “The Fall Guy,” the Oscar nominee joined co-star Ryan Gosling for a Vanity Fair Italy cover story in which she expressed frustration over algorithm-driven decision making. Blunt pointed to Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” as the kind of gamble that an algorithm or date-crunching would probably advice not to make given it’s a biopic with an R rating and a three-hour runtime that features no action scenes. Just recently, “A Knight’s Tale” director Brian Helgeland told Inverse that it was an algorithm that likely killed the chance of making a sequel to his 2001 medieval action-comedy.

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