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Wilde About Go

Published on 1/11/2011

Tron: Legacy actress Olivia Wilde was apparently the inspiration for the inclusion of go in the holiday hit. “That was my nerdy idea because Go is the one game that humans consistently beat computers at,” Wilde said in a December 16 interview in the Times-Union. Taking on an “excited nerd voice,” Wilde said “We should have something about Go, because people who know about it will know computers can't beat humans and it'll be this cool reference to what humans can do that computers can't. So we had that line where I say, ‘Flynn usually beats me.’ I think that people who know might get a little bit of a chuckle out of that.” Wilde also references Buddhism's "beginner's mind" in describing her character, Quorra. Kudos to EJ reader “ptw” who noted that Wilde “doesn't seem to be an AGA member, but having a spokesperson with her combination of intelligence and notoriety would be quite useful in promoting go in the US.”