Resumen
The article focuses on the impact of digital revolution on actors and acting. According to the author, digital simulation will not replace acting, nor therefore actors, in any known way in any known timeframe. But one may well replace the appearance of actors. The author has in mind a parallel to the goal he and his colleagues once had, started about 1974, to realize the first completely digital feature film. That took 20 years, far longer than originally guessed, and the result, Toy Story was a cartoon film. The author now predict it will take an additional 20 years to produce the first completely digital "live-action" motion picture, including by definition fully realized human beings. Explicitly, this will be demonstrated by the complete replacement of the appearance of a lead actor in a feature length motion picture, including comparable amounts of screentime and spoken dialogue and comparable numbers of close-up arid medium shots. Moreover, the author predicts that the screen representation including voice, will be "driven" by at least one accomplished human actor.