In this completion, GPT-3 imagines a conversation between popular (and deceased) chef Julia Child and Jimmy Fallon. I ran this prompt twice, producing the following 2-part interview. Bon appetit!
—Ryan
A transcript of Jimmy Fallon interviewing Julia Child, who has gone vegan and stars in the new Mad Max movie.
[part 1]
Jimmy Fallon: Welcome to the show, Julia Child.
Julia Child: Thank you.
JF: I just wanted to ask you a few questions about your vegan lifestyle. First off, what made you go vegan?
JC: Well, it was just time for me to try something new.
JF: And what's the hardest part about being vegan?
JC: I can't eat anything that's living.
JF: But you're in a movie called Mad Max, so how do you survive in the desert?
JC: Well, I'm not vegan in the movie.
JF: And what do you eat in the movie?
JC: Mostly human flesh.
[part 2]
FALLON: You were in the movie “The Road Warrior,” but I heard you were originally supposed to be in “Mad Max.” Is that true?
CHILD: Yes, it is true. It was the third Mad Max film. Mel Gibson had just made “Lethal Weapon” and I was asked if I would like to play a character named Aunt Entity who is the leader of this post-apocalyptic tribe of women who ride around on motorcycles with machine guns shooting people. And I said, “Well, this sounds like fun!” But then when they sent me the script, there wasn’t one woman in it! It was just men wandering around in the desert fighting each other for two hours! So my agent called up and said, “This isn’t what we talked about at all! We can’t send her out on this!” And they said, “Well, we’ll make her a lesbian.” And I said, “I don’t think so! I like men too much!” So that was the end of that.
FALLON: You know what you should have done? You should have played Aunt Entity and then made out with Mel Gibson at the end of the movie.
CHILD: Well, I would have liked to have done that!
FALLON: So what are you doing in the new Mad Max movie?
CHILD: I’m a nine-foot tall warrior woman. They gave me some armor and a helmet, but I didn’t really have to act much. All I had to do was run around screaming. It was very easy!
FALLON: Do you think there’s any chance that they’ll ask you to be in the next Mad Max movie?
CHILD: I don’t know. I hope so! I would like to be in the next Mad Max movie. I hope they ask me!
FALLON: Well, if you do get asked, will you say yes?
CHILD: Yes! I’ll do it!
FALLON: That’s good. Because you’re the only person who can make me like a movie called “Mad Max.”
CHILD: [laughs] I know! I’m very excited about it.
FALLON: So, Julia, you were in the movie “Saving Private Ryan.” What was that like?
CHILD: Well, that was great fun. That was my first Hollywood film and I really enjoyed it. I played a nun who is standing on the beach with Tom Hanks and he comes up to me and says, “Sister, we need your help! We need your help to save Private Ryan!” And I say, “Well… okay!” And then they cut to the next scene where all of us are running across the beach towards the boat as German soldiers are shooting at us. But as we run along I realize that this is actually Tom Hanks’ character and not a real soldier at all. He just looks like one because he has a helmet on his head. And so I stop and turn around and yell out to him, “Tom Hanks!” And he says, “What?” And I say, “I thought you were a real soldier!” And he says, “Well… I am.” And then we all jump into the boat and go off to save Private Ryan.
FALLON: Did you ever think that when you were doing that scene that maybe Tom Hanks was thinking, “I don’t know if I can trust this nun. She might not be on my side. She might turn around and shoot me in the back of the head with her machine gun. Maybe she’s an undercover Nazi who is trying to get us killed. What if she turns out to be a traitor? What if she betrays us?”
CHILD: [laughs] Well, I think that probably did cross his mind at some point! But it was fun being in that movie. It was fun being on the beach in Normandy shooting at Germans.