The actor has a new film out: The Surfer (gloriously demented the Guardian), and as movie PRs are learning, if you're after a burst of offbeat publicity these days, there's no surer way to do it than with a supposedly spontaneous, designedly shonky celebrity lookalike contest.
Robots cannot reflect the human condition for us. That is a dead end if an actor lets one AI robot manipulate his or her performance even a little bit, an inch will eventually become a mile and all integrity, purity and truth of art will be replaced by financial interests only.