You make a glib attempt at a parallel that's not relevant to the topic in the article. The point of this article isn't that we now have a "mechanical" process to make faking easier. That's been known for awhile. The headline specifically calls out acting for the purpose of deepfakes, but the article goes on to discuss the troubles deepfakes can cause.
It's certainly arguable that doppelgangers made "deepfakes" easier in the past, but only easier to those who could hire the actor. And that this technology makes it so that hiring the doppelganger is unnecessary, but it's by no means easier like the printing press made copying books easier.
The real actor in a deepfake doesn't have to look much like the target person. The pool of usable actors thus explodes by many many orders of magnitude. Hence my comparison.
It's certainly arguable that doppelgangers made "deepfakes" easier in the past, but only easier to those who could hire the actor. And that this technology makes it so that hiring the doppelganger is unnecessary, but it's by no means easier like the printing press made copying books easier.