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'I fear that AI is eventually going to weed out background actors. 'What if I don't want to be on MarioVision, or SarahVision?' she said, rattling off made-up future productions. Rubalcaba, who makes the SAG-AFTRA union rate of $187 a day as a background actor, said she did not give permission for her digital replica to ever be used in the background of any scenes. No matter what happens with it, she'll never see any payment for it.ĭisney did not return a request for comment.

Then their digital replicas were created.īut here's the rub: She was never told how or if this digital avatar of herself would ever be used on screen.

Rubalcaba said the actors had their faces and bodies scanned for about 15 minutes each. Let us see your surprised face,' Rubalcaba, 47, recalls of the instructions she was given.

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After four weeks of working as a background actor on the Disney+ series WandaVision during the pandemic, Alexandria Rubalcaba was told by the production crew to report to a tractor trailer.ĭozens of other background actors were wrangled to the same site, where, one by one, they were told to step in front of a series of cameras on metal rigs behind glass.

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