AI is going to replace most Hollywood jobs anyway.
That’s going to be interesting to watch, though I don’t think I’ll live long enough to see the technology get good enough.
Cartoon movies and anime do have a following, but for AI to replace real people in other films will require a considerably greater suspension of disbelief than audiences have ever been asked to attempt. Yes, we know that those are actors onscreen, and the actors are not the characters they play. But they’re still flesh and blood people, and the film wants us to identify with them. (Which is why they should keep their messy private lives private.)
I’m not sure most of us will be able to do that if we know that the character was never anything more than pixels and programming. I’m not one to cry in movies (or to cry elsewhere, for that matter), but I will confess that, on occasion, it has been necessary to man up and maintain a stiff upper lip. I’ve never gotten emotional in that way over a character in a book.