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I know it's not always viable, but there are a lot of really shitty actors who have stunt doubles, and I always wondered why they didn't just replace the actor with the stunt double.
Stunt doubles are sometimes just ordinary folks who are not necessarily trained actors.
Yeah, a lot of the time a double isn't even necessarily a stunt double it's just that they need a body of approximately the same build and maybe with the same hair colour and cut so that the actor who is on camera appears to be talking to another actor who is mostly out of frame (e.g. the angle shows the double from behind because the focus is on the actor who is speaking to them.)
It all seems a bit convoluted but as actor pay rates go up as you climb the production ladder, it becomes a matter of efficiency. That can be efficiency in the sense of paying the actors, or it can be in stuff like makeup and prosthetics (imagine if you had an actor who had to sit in a chair for 6 hours just so you could mostly film them from behind or the side - that's a huge waste of everyone's time and effort), and it can be about timeframes (depending on the set you might have Actor A with Actor B's double doing recording, thus freeing up Actor B to rehearse on a different stage or to be in the makeup chair for however many hours needed so that they're ready to start recording as soon as Actor A is done with their bit).