United Kingdom, Sept. 11 -- Alicia Vikander created an AI version of Andrew Lincoln to help her rehearse.

The 36-year-old actress appears with the Walking Dead star in The Lady from the Sea in London and because she takes "a while" to learn her lines, she turned to technology for help, creating a digital replica of her co-star to run the scripts with her.

She told the Standard: "There are apps for it now, it's so cool! Because it takes me a while to learn lines, that's why I normally like the prep time, especially if you don't have the other actors there.

"With this app you can choose the character, so you can say British, Aussie, female, middle-aged, whatever, and then they read the lines. I've realised that some AI voices are upgrade...