Today’s episode of Debunking AI proves that AI sounds just as confident when it’s very wrong as when it’s very right, but Corey Mylchreest is here to give definitive answers. The young actor, who rose to fame playing the charming but tortured King George III in Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story, is currently starring in Netflix’s My Oxford Year.

Based on Julia Whelan’s beloved novel of the same name, My Oxford Year is a coming-of-age movie that follows Anna (Sofia Carson) as she defers a Goldman Sachs job to fulfill her childhood ambition of attending Oxford University. While there, she meets and falls in love with PhD student Jamie (Mylchreest), who harbors a secret that will change the trajectory of her life.

ScreenRant‘s latest episode of Debunking AI gave Mylchreest the opportunity to wax poetic about his character Jamie from My Oxford Year, as well as to correct the record on some of the half-truths floating around the internet when it comes to his time on Queen Charlotte. The actor also took the opportunity to emphasize his love of sports — specially of Liverpool FC football.

My Oxford Year’s Jamie May Have A Secret, But He’s Not James Bond

“Unless I’ve Played It So Well That I’ve Kept My Own Political Career Hidden From Myself…”

AI initially got the basic details of My Oxford Year correct, allowing Mylchreest the opportunity to get amped for his latest role. “I’m excited for that film to come out,” the actor admitted cheekily. “It’s probably, if we’re being honest, why I’m sat here right now.” It even inspired him to get philosophical after it declared the film to be a transformative romance about characters colliding.

That is – to be fair to it, considering this is all AI – pretty true, and also kind of poetic. It’s a transformative, soulful romance. As with any soulful romance, I think two people learn and take on ideas, philosophies, and characteristics of the other. Two opposites collide, for sure. Anna is very much a planner, while Jamie is much more spontaneous and messy. They change each other and are from different cultures. In a way, it is a cross-Atlantic love letter.

Where AI veered off track, however, was by explaining that Jamie was secretly a member of Parliament, who had to keep his career hidden from Anna. “Of course, as you would if your career was a secret member of parliament,” Mylchreest joked before declaring it patently false. “I wish it were true because that sounds a bit like James Bond! But, no, he is a professor, Unless I’ve played it so well that I’ve kept my own political career hidden from myself, in which case, he is secretly a Member of Parliament. We wouldn’t know, would we? Because it’s secret.”

He did allow, however, that Jamie was smart, “and he is also guarded. He uses his humor as a defense mechanism. He’s a very fun guy, and very pᴀssionate about poetry. Which not many people are, let’s be honest. So, he’s special in that regard. He likes to live for the moment, for right now, and I really respect him for that. I’d like to be around him because of it.“

He made a minor objection to AI’s description of Jamie as more emotionally open in the film than the book, precisely because of one of the movie’s most important twists. “One of the great joys of this film is that, although it deals with some things that are difficult, I as an actor didn’t really have to do any of that because Jamie’s just very pᴀssionate, positive, and doesn’t look at the dark stuff within himself,” Mylchreest explained. “It was sort of the job of every other actor around me to do all of that stuff, which made my life a lot easier.”

Last but not least, he gave a shoutout to his costar Sofia Carson’s calming presence. “I was very late, I was very sweaty, and I was panicked. I’d just been filming something else, and there was quite an intense scene, so I was sort of coming from that,” he said about their first meeting. “She was sat there, very regal, very wise, and very calm. She shook my hand, and I said, ‘It’s a pleasure to meet you.’ And she said, ‘Everything will be just fine.’ She didn’t really say that, but I felt it from her look.”

AI Knows Corey Mylchreest Was Unaware Of Which Bridgerton Role He Was Playing In Queen Charlotte

But It Still Insisted He Did Deep Research Before His Auditions

AI declared that Mylchreest’s audition process took four months, which he begrudgingly allowed to be true since there were three separate auditions, while also putting forward the idea that he won the role based on his chemistry read with India Amarteifio and his deep character research. “I didn’t do any deep character research beforehand,” the star demurred. “I did it eventually, but not for the chemistry read. That was just fear that got me through.”

In fact, it went on to correctly report that Mylchreest didn’t realize he was auditioning for Queen Charlotte before landing the role, making its earlier explanation of his research even stranger. Mylchreest gamely described the sides he was auditioning with, however. “It was like Sophia and Gregory rather than George and Charlotte. I was like, ‘Wow, okay, I’m playing this Gregory dude.’” Once he got the part, “They thought that I knew, but I didn’t. I thought I’d just gotten the role as this Gregory guy [before] I realized it was a real person. And that’s when I got very scared.“

Interestingly enough, perhaps the strangest lie AI came up with was that Mylchreest’s first acting role was playing young Macbeth in a school production of Macbeth at age 8. But perhaps even more interesting was the actor’s encouraging response to such a falsehood: “It’s just not true, but I wonder whether they’re talking about young Macbeth being a role within Macbeth, which they’ve also got wrong, or just that I’m Macbeth at age 8, which would make him a young Macbeth. I guess I played Romeo at around the same age, so it’s not too far off. It was still Shakespeare.“

His conclusion was equally encouraging, recalling the recent trend of gentle parenting.

Dude, you were spot on with some things, you were pretty good. In some others, you were pretty poetic. And in a couple, there’s one or two, you’re not even slightly off. You’re just so confidently in the wrong universe. But you’re young, aren’t you? I have faith. You might get some more right later.

Through all the discussion of his projects, Mylchreest didn’t hesitate to pull out his Liverpool FC banner the second he was given an opening. “They can take the boy out of Liverpool, but they cannot take the Liverpool out of the boy!” Watch the full interview for an in-depth breakdown of his favorite team!

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