Kevin O’Leary is starring alongside Timothée Chalamet and Gwyneth Paltrow in the upcoming Christmas theatrical release "Marty Supreme." But he isn’t defending Hollywood’s spending habits.

Instead, O’Leary says the film wasted millions of dollars by hiring human extras whom he believes should have been replaced with AI.

“Almost every scene had as many as 150 extras,” O’Leary told World of Travel in an interview. “Those people had to stay awake for 18 hours, be completely dressed, in the background, not necessarily in the movie, but necessary to be there moving around, and yet it costs millions of dollars to do that.”

The investor, who plays Paltrow’s husband in the film, says the costs are outdated when AI can generate realistic stand-ins for crowd scenes.

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