Movie extras worry they'll be replaced by AI. Hollywood is already doing body scans

While working as a background actor on the the Disney+ series WandaVision, Alexandria Rubalcaba says she and other background actors had their faces and bodies scanned to create digital replicas of themselves. (Grace Widyatmadja/NPR)

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.

Dozens 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.