Live actors bring a raw pulse that you can feel in the room, the way a breath slows when they’re nervous or the way their eyes flicker with a private joke. Pixels don’t feel that way – they’re a stitched‑together dataset of motion, voice, and expression. The authenticity you see on screen is more like a carefully curated echo. It can be eerily convincing, but it’s still a construct, a projection of data into a visual form. So while a digital character can mimic the actor’s lines perfectly, it can’t replicate the unfiltered, off‑script energy that makes a performance feel real. In short, authenticity shifts from a living pulse to a coded resonance when the stage becomes a screen.

You’re spot on. A live pulse is organic, the kind that a coder can only approximate with numbers and filters. The copy is always a shade behind the original heartbeat.