![]() ![]() And, of course, no one ever took me up on it.ĪLLYN: Drexel professor Susskind says many actors get their start by doing background work. And if you're willing to give me 100% increase in my day rate, I would be open to that. KATRINA SHERWOOD: I always said, well, you know, I'm not going to consent to that because I wasn't hired to do a body scan today. Background actor Katrina Sherwood recently refused to be scanned by a studio. Some say hyper-realistic AI will make them disposable or decimate their earnings. But it's different for background actors who aren't famous. Then maybe they won't hire you again because that's the way the system works.ĪLLYN: Big-name actors stand to make good money by licensing out their digital likeness. You don't know if they're going to, like, call up casting and say, oh, this person was being difficult and maybe not say why. REBECCA SAFIER: Because you don't know what's going to get back to casting. Rebecca Safier is a Los Angeles-based based background actor. He says the rapid development of AI tools has the whole industry on edge.ĪNDREW SUSSKIND: The actors, extras and the writers are right to see this moment as their best chance to set up what the rules would be in the use of AI.ĪLLYN: Five background actors interviewed by NPR all said they were caught off guard in recent months by having to undergo body scans by studios. Andrew Susskind is an associate professor in Drexel University's film department. The Screen Actors Guild says their members should know how AI will be used before they take on an acting gig. The studios say signing up for the job means your AI likeness could be used in the future. RUBALCABA: AI is eventually going to weed out background, and they're not going to have any use for background actors anymore.ĪLLYN: The group representing the studios say that is not their intention. How the latest AI technology will be deployed to make movies is a key issue in the ongoing actors strike with Hollywood studios. If it is used, she won't be getting paid for it. She doesn't know what it will be used for or if it will be ever used at all. Just basically going through different emotions.ĪLLYN: About 15 minutes later, a digital replica of Rubalcaba was created. All the other background actors and extras had to do the same.ĪLEXANDRIA RUBALCABA: They kind of wrangled everybody together, took them into a trailer and, one by one, had us scanned.ĪLLYN: She says her face and body were being scanned by a series of cameras on metal rigs behind glass. NPR tech reporter Bobby Allyn reports.īOBBY ALLYN, BYLINE: Alexandria Rubalcaba (ph) is a full-time background actor in Los Angeles on the set of the Disney+ show "WandaVision" during the pandemic, the production crew told her to report to a tractor trailer on set. It's an issue at the heart of the labor standoff between Hollywood studios and the Screen Actors Guild. Some TV and film background actors worry that they'll be replaced by AI. ![]()
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