Nicolas Cage is warning young actors to “protect” themselves from new AI technology being used in film. The 60-year-old Hollywood star has urged actors to go through their contracts and check if there are any clauses on AI use that gives studios free-reign to manipulate their performance or appearance once they have filmed their role and check before signing on the dotted line. Speaking at the Newport Beach Film Festival on Sunday (20.10.24), he began: “Film performance, to me, is very much a handmade, organic, from-scratch process. “It’s from the heart, it’s from the imagination, it’s from th…