Jenna Ortega says she hopes 'Clara and the Sun' will encourage people to 'put away the computers and the phones' at the dystopian film's world premiere in London

Jenna Ortega hopes her new dystopian sci-fi film "Klara and the Sun" can remind people to live in an age of artificial intelligence and ubiquitous technology. The star told Variety on the red carpet, “I think we need to focus on each other and put the computers and phones away.

Jenna Ortega hopes her new dystopian sci-fi film "Klara and the Sun" can remind people to live in an age of artificial intelligence and ubiquitous technology.

"I think we need to focus on each other and put the computers and phones away," the star told Variety on the red carpet at the film's world premiere at the London Film Festival on Thursday night.

"Remember to be there and appreciate the people while they're standing right in front of you," added Ortega, wearing a lace dress and dazzling yellow hair. RELATED STORIES Warner Bros. Television Group Chairman Chuning Dungy confirms Skydance's role in memo to staff, adding oversight of Paramount's media networks, blocking merger coalition asking court to overturn Paramount's settlement with states over Warner Bros. contract.

Based on Kazuo Ishiguro's best-selling 2021 novel of the same name, "Clara and the Sun" takes place in a future where advances in genetic engineering have divided humans into rigid social classes. Ortega plays Clara, an artificial android companion bought for a sick girl named Josie (Mia Taria). Klara and the Sun is directed by "Thor" director Taika Waititi and also stars Amy Adams as Josie's mother, Arran Murphy (son of Cillian Murphy), Natasha Lyonne, Steve Buscemi and more. Popular in Variety

Waititi, Adams, Murphy and Lyons all walked the red carpet at the London Film Festival on Thursday night alongside Waititi's wife Rita Ora and a surprise appearance by Florence Pugh, who stunned in a blue floral gown with formal sleeves. Pugh enthusiastically greeted Ortega and Adams before they all posed for a photo with producer Rachel Foreman.

Adams, standing next to Ortega, added that everyone he spoke with took "something different" away from the film. "For me, it's a really successful film that conveys something different to every viewer. So I'd love to hear what people get from it," he said.

Ortega clarified that although Clara is an "artificial friend", it does not work like artificial intelligence as we know it today.

"I guess the AI gets all this information from the internet and Clara gets all her information from the real world," he said. "So it's a little bit different. She's kind of like a toddler. It was really interesting to play her particular role in this movie because Taika wanted a more human approach, so she didn't want to do things that were too robotic, maybe more clumsy and clueless."

"Klara and the Sun" is set to hit theaters on October 23 via Sony Pictures.