Ella Stiller On Tackling AI In ‘Cupertino’ And Why She Knew The Part Was For Her Instantly

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Ella Stiller knew Cupertino was made for her far before she got the part.

In Cupertino, Ella Stiller not only gets the opportunity of a lifetime for any working actor, but for any artist in the 21st century.

The CBS series, created by Elsbeth and The Good Wife creators Robert and Michelle King, follows attorneys at a firm in Silicon Valley, fighting the good fight every day against tech and big corporations seemingly operating outside of the law. Stiller — who hails from the famed Hollywood family with her last name and boasts Christine Taylor and Ben Stiller as her mom and dad — plays Christy in the show, the plucky secretary to Michael Price (Mike Colter) and Olivia Siffre (Rachel Keller), who is often tasked with the dirty work during their cases.

For a myriad of reasons, Stiller tells DECIDER in a sit-down over Zoom that she felt in her core this would be a part she would get, even if she had nothing but a hope and a dream to go off of before being cast.

“The second I read the script, I was like ‘This is kind of a match made in heaven; I just felt very connected to it and I had a real gut feeling that I was gonna work out. I would say 98 percent of the time, I do not feel that way. Sometimes it’s like, yeah, it would be great, but I don’t get whatever that like magical feeling is. And with this, I felt it immediately,” she explains, adding that she even hid it from her family and friends during the holidays so as not to jinx anything.

So what made her connect to the script and the concept in the first place? According to the young actress, it has everything to do with the show taking on one of the hottest conversations in the industry in 2026: AI. Spoiler alert: the second episode of the show ends with Christy connecting a potential client, Bo (Rob McClure) to Michael and Olivia, only for this man to admit that he is artificial general intelligence.

“Oh, it means so much. And I feel so connected to it. I’m just passionate that humanity will overcome,” she says, adding that she sees AI as “the downfall of creativity.” Given that, she calls…

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