There's no need to use the likeness of current actors. Actors need a unique combination of assets: they need to have the right looks, the right voice and the r

There's no need to use the likeness of current actors. Actors need a unique combination of assets: they need to have the right looks, the right voice and the right skills. That makes them expensive. But with AI, we can combine one person's likeness with another person's voice and another person's acting, and use this to create new virtual actors. Finding someone who merely looks good and is willing to sell their likeness will not be hard. Even that might not be necessary, since AI will soon be able to generate photorealistic human models that aren't based on anyone in particular.