Harry Potter deepfake inserts Meryl Streep as Dolores Umbridge
Meryl Streep as Imelda Staunton as Dolores Umbridge.
AsArt / YouTube; Screenshot of CNET
Deepfakes have their deeply questionable uses, but if they are not replaced Bill Pullman with Donald Trump To make speeches on Independence Day, they’re an incredibly effective way to visualize rewrites of famous films. How about Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix?
A deep fake from YouTuber AsArt replaces Imelda Staunton with Meryl Streep in the role of Dolores Umbridge. This is the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, who is described as a tall, pale toad and whose love for kittens and other related utensils refutes their cruelty to Harry.
Several selected scenes play a role here, including the one in which Umbridge lets Harry write lines with a special pen that does not require ink. This is because it writes with the blood of the person who uses it.
“You know, I really hate children” – a classic Umbridge line that Streep would nail.
Aside from the Ministry of Magic’s policies, this is a seamless fake that somehow takes advantage of Streep’s ability to subtly undermine. Big Little Lies Streep would have given her the job in real life.
Deepfake video manipulation technology has been used for some time to redefine roles with different actors without having to re-create the entire film. You can see Bill Hader as T-1000 in Terminator 2, and Robert Downey Jr. and Tom Holland as Doc Brown and Marty McFly in Back to the Future. Everything is super impressive and very disturbing.
