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What if José Luis Martínez-Almeida had been the star that brought Austin Powers to life? The mayor of Madrid has become the protagonist of a viral parody of the aforementioned film saga thanks to a 'deepfake', that is, a fake video and digitally manipulated with very realistic results. Using artificial intelligence techniques you can see the politician embodying the character of the Mike Myers movie .

The piece is titled Austin Pollers - Gold Single . It is a reference to the third title of the trilogy, Austin Powers in Gold Member , which parodied James Bond's Goldfinger feature. It already exceeds 400,000 views between Twitter and YouTube in just over a day.

Martínez-Almeida is not the only member of the Popular Party that appears in the video, since José María Aznar makes an appearance a few seconds later. The former president's face appears on the body of a woman who shares a bathroom with the protagonist. Also participating in these fun images are Esperanza Aguirre, Mariano Rajoy or Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón .

The architects of the video are United Unknown , which are defined as "creators of videos and images of humor and political satire". They are regular collaborators of television spaces such as Late Motiv and LocoMundo in Movistar + .

They have released this work shortly after the publication of an interview with the mayor of Madrid with LOC. In it, she said that Begoña Villacís is too busy as vice mayor to look for a girlfriend and that she doesn't use applications to flirt: "I have success for myself."

Network reactions

The parody of Austin Powers with Martínez-Almeida and Aznar has been highly applauded in social networks. A tweet asked those responsible to organize a 'crowdfunding' to "double the entire movie" at the request of the public. "It makes you want to see the trilogy in full , spectacular," wrote another. "Coffee has leaked from my nose. Masterpiece," said one user.

There were those who indicated sarcastically that the video does not have much merit, due to the physical resemblance between the mayor of the capital and the character of Austin Powers . "This time the editing work was almost done," said one user on Twitter . Another acknowledged: "Until the second 38 I thought it was a 'best scenes' of Austin Powers ." On the other hand, a tweeter talked about other politicians who could have left: " Pedro Sánchez is missing as Doctor Maligno and Pablo Iglesias from Mini Yo ".

Other 'deepfakes' with politicians

Last November another 'deepfake' went viral with politicians. This is the parody of Team A with Pablo Casado, Pedro Sánchez, Pablo Iglesias, Albert Rivera and Santiago Abascal as protagonists. Those responsible were the owners of the FaceToFake account and named it Team E, with E from Spain .

United Unknown are experts in this type of assembly. Recently they prepared for Late Motiv a video in which the leader of the PSOE becomes Tom Cruise in the sequel to Top Gun , with the participation of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Pablo Iglesias, Gabriel Rufián, Irene Montero or Alberto Garzón .

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