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Ex Machina's Domhnall Gleeson: "This is a film about ideas"

What separates the "organic machine" you call a brain from advanced artificial intelligence? It's a question that hit Irish actor Domhnall Gleeson hard.
Domhnall Gleeson examines human-like faces in a scene from "Ex Machina." (The Associated Press)

What separates the "organic machine" you call a brain from advanced artificial intelligence? It's a question that hit Irish actor Domhnall Gleeson hard as he took in the script for Ex Machina

Today the former Harry Potter actor joins Friday guest host Tom Power to discuss his role in new Sci-Fi flick. which he describes as a film about ideas. 

"Reading the film made me question things that are not to do with the character or the world of the film," says Gleeson, adding that he found himself re-thinking the very notion of soul.  

"I just don't know what it means anymore."

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