No, that’s stupid. Nobody cares about the likeness of nobody actors. They are completely fungible. And if the actors guild thinks this is the hill to die on the

No, that’s stupid. Nobody cares about the likeness of nobody actors. They are completely fungible. And if the actors guild thinks this is the hill to die on then they may win the battle and lose the war by an enormous margin. the obvious near term future is that they don’t even get the single episode. Your example is silly. Hire someone who is funny looking to be a bartender and then have someone cheaper do them later on? My dude, the funny looking bartender is already going to be as cheap as it gets because they’re a nobody actor. And the barrier to face swapping a generated face that is just as good as the funny looking dude’s onto a different nobody from the beginning is very small.