Oct 19, 2026 · 49 min · 10 segments
Madison West, vertical drama's go-to villain (Honey Trapped, Virgin Astronaut Bucket List), on how AI wiped out a summer of work for real actors. Madison grew up outside Oxford, 20 minutes from…
like two, three day villain roles, maybe a couple just to start and warm up because there was quite a stigma against, as everyone has said, verticals when we started.
And they were, you know, at the beginning, I believe like pretty heavy in, intimacy and nudity potentially not nudity, but like light nudity.
And so I was like, you know what? I am going to ignore all of that noise and I'm just going to do it because I need to find work.
I just want to meet, I just wanted to meet people and have the set experience and Cause I got a little taste of a set and I wanted more.
like two, three day villain roles, maybe a couple just to start and warm up because there was quite a stigma against, as everyone has said, verticals when we started.
And they were, you know, at the beginning, I believe like pretty heavy in, intimacy and nudity potentially not nudity, but like light nudity.
And so I was like, you know what? I am going to ignore all of that noise and I'm just going to do it because I need to find work.
I just want to meet, I just wanted to meet people and have the set experience and Cause I got a little taste of a set and I wanted more.
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