Note: This story contains spoilers from “Black Mirror” Season 7, Episode 3, “Hotel Reverie.”
In “Black Mirror’s” “Hotel Reverie,” Hollywood A-list actress Brandy Friday (Issa Rae) is thrust into a classic romance movie, kickstarting a love story between her and one of the film’s AI-generated characters, played by a star from the 1940s (Emma Corrin).
With creator Charlie Brooker drawing inspiration from “Brief Encouter” and “Casablanca,” Corrin re-watched both as they prepared to play ’40s movie star Dorothy Chambers, whose rendition of Clara in “Hotel Reverie” is revitalized with an immersive technology that places Brandy into the lead role of Dr.