Taika Waititi Reacted Exactly As You’d Expect To NSFW Dall-E Meme
Taika Waititi joins in on the current AI-generated image trend by reacting to a NSFW Our Flag Means Death-inspired Blackbeard Dall-E meme. The New Zealand filmmaker is best known for directing two entries in the Marvel Cinematic Universe's Thor series, 2017's Ragnarok and this summer's upcoming Thor: Love and Thunder. Other than his work behind the camera, Waititi also voices and provides a motion-capture performance for the MCU character Korg, the soft-spoken Kronan rock warrior who befriends Thor in a Sakaarian cell.
Outside the MCU, Waititi is also involved in a variety of different television shows as a writer, director, actor, and executive producer, including What We Do in the Shadows, The Mandalorian, and Reservation Dogs. His most recent small screen project is the HBO Max series Our Flag Means Death, in which he plays the legendary pirate captain Edward Teach, also known as Blackbeard. The pirate romantic-comedy has received overwhelmingly positive reviews for its substantial LGBTQ+ representation and queer relationships, including the central romance between Blackbeard and Rhys Darby's Captain Stede Bonnet.
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Now, Waititi is joining in on the Dall-E trend by reacting to a AI-generated image inspired by Our Flag Means Death. Using the program Dall-E Mini, a fan entered the prompt "blackbeard taika waititi lingerie" in order to generate some rather unsettling images of Waititi's Blackbeard in lingerie with a distorted face. Waititi reacted to the photo collection on Twitter, saying "F*ck yeah" and "Eggplant city." Check out the Dall-E meme and Waititi's reaction in the Twitter thread below:
Fuck yeah. Eggplant city.
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