Robert Downey Jr

The 59-year-old actor starred as the tech genius Tony Stark in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) from 'Iron Man' in 2008 until 2019's 'Avengers: Endgame' and has insisted he isn't worried the studio will attempt to "hijack [his] character's soul" by employing machine learning to bring him into a future movie.

When asked about his stance on AI in the film industry during an appearance on the 'On With Kara Swisher' podcast, he told the host: "I will say this — there’s two tracks.

"One is — how do I feel about everything that’s going on, and my answer is I feel about it minimally because I have an actual emotional life that’s occurring that doesn’t have a lot of room for that.

"And to go back to the MCU, I'm not worried about them hijacking my character’s soul because there’s like three or four guys and gals who make all the decisions there anyway and they would never do that to me, with or without me."

The 'Oppenheimer' star added he "intends to sue all future executives just on spec" if they tried to recreate his likeness using the technology.