Emily Blunt says she avoided an AI-based approach for a tough “non-human language” moment in Steven Spielberg’s upcoming Disclosure Day, choosing instead to record her own strange sounds for a four-minute sequence before the sound team transformed them for the
Emily Blunt knew she had to make the moment feel impossible—without letting technology do the heavy lifting.
In an appearance on Hot Ones. the 43-year-old The Devil Wears Prada star talked about one of the most challenging scenes she filmed for Steven Spielberg’s highly anticipated new project. Disclosure Day. She described a pivotal sequence where her character needed to communicate in a non-human language. a requirement that quickly turned the process into a question of method: use AI to generate the sounds. or try to create them herself.
Blunt said the scene builds into a turning point—“It’s a four-minute oner that we shot that leads up to that moment where she’s gradually sort of disintegrating.” From there. she explained. there were multiple paths forward. One option was going the AI route to generate the vocal material. She didn’t like it.
“I thought I could make some really strange sounds,” she said. “You could go the AI route, which I’m a bit terrified of.”
So she made a direct plan: perform it herself. “I said maybe I could come in and we’ll just do a range of weird sounds. And it’s what we did,” she shared.
Blunt described the kinds of noises she recorded, saying, “I did sort of the clicking sounds, I did sort of humming sounds, consonant sounds, breathing strange sounds.”
Those raw recordings then became the foundation for the final effect. The production’s sound department took what she produced and transformed it into what audiences hear in the movie. Blunt said they used “strategically placed microphones and specialized audio techniques” to capture the various noises and build them into the finished “weird sound” for the scene shown in the trailer.
Her decision lands in the middle of a wider Hollywood debate over AI in filmmaking—whether the technology should replace parts of the creative process that have traditionally been made by humans.
Disclosure Day is scheduled to hit theaters on June 12, 2026. The trailer is embedded below.
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