Elon Musk, Played Menacing and a Little Ridiculous

Luca Guadagnino's Artificial explores the rise of AI; Ike Barinholtz's job in it was Elon Musk. Deadline reports that, while discussing how he got into character as the OpenAI co-founder, Barinholtz described what made his performance both 'menacing' and 'a little ridiculous.' The Neon film premieres on Christmas Day. Menacing and ridiculous are not opposites — they are how a lot of powerful people actually read, in real time — which is why those two words together sound less like a joke than like a thesis.