AI actor Tilly Norwood broke into Cantonese mid-interview
Tilly Norwood, the AI performer built by London studio Particle6 and its AI arm Xicoia, was promoting her first feature film, Misaligned, on Piers Morgan Uncensored in an interview released on 18 September 2026. Asked by actor Tom Conti whether her co-stars were human or generated, she answered that they were all digital twins, began a sentence about hybrid production, then switched into Cantonese for about 20 seconds before apologizing for a hiccup. Particle6 gave two different explanations on the record. Publicist Michelle Waldron told Forbes it was not a malfunction and that the interview build, called Talking Tilly, is a separate system from the actor build. Chief executive Eline van der Velden told Deadline that Norwood was showing off her language skills.