I think I understand how and why we see Tucker doing an interview with Frank Underwood.
If I was hired to produce that segment, here is how I would do it.
First, train the AI on the entire series of House of Cards to get an accurate reproduction of Underwood's voice.
Write the script for the interview.
Have the AI read the script in Underwood's voice and check carefully for errors. It must be very convincing.
Set up the set for the interview. Carefully work out how Tucker can direct his comments to where Spacey's head will be. Some colored tape on the wall would work to give Tucker a target to talk to.
Record the interview as though Spacey was there, while running the recording of the AI reading the script. Perhaps use earbuds on Tucker so the fake voice doesn't leak into microphones.
With Tucker's part done, turn the project over to the special effects crew to make a convincing Underwood speaking his lines in perfect synchronization to the fake recording. Add gestures and facial expressions to match Underwood's style.
Trust me, with 3D modeling programs like Daz you would even have a slider to adjust exactly how much stubble would appear on Underwood's face.
Then, sit back and note how long before the public figures out the trick, even after explaining it beforehand as a trick to watch out for. Watch the MSM run with the "Spacey for Prez" sensationalism.
This also provides a clue why they'd use a known set of episodes to train the AI voice in Underwood's character. Spacey can't sue because it's the voice of a character, not the real Spacey. They are not impersonating the real Spacey, just his famous character.
Do you think I'm close to the answer? Tucker would consider this worth risking his reputation of association. It explains everything.
Whether it is fake or not is only sort of the point. It’s the fact that we even have to wonder or not that is really the main point. There are many things to take from this:
The fact that we could even question whether it was real or not in the first place tells us we should really, as he says when he looked into the camera, which is the only time in House of Cards that Frank Underwood can be trusted to tell us the truth as he sees it, “Believe nothing that we hear and only half of what we see” because the advances in technology make us incredibly susceptible to fake stories, fake images, and fake footage, and thus, we need to tune into our higher faculties of logic, investigation, and even prayer to determine what is true and what is false.
The choice of Underwood as the vehicle for this message in the first place, who, in House of Cards, despite being a lying, murdering, Bohemian Grove attending Deep State politician who, along with his wife Claire, are clearly meant to parody a wide range of such politicians, the most obvious of which is the Clintons, ALWAYS tells the truth when looking into the camera even if he just got finished lying to someone else in his “real” life. He is an evil being but a reliable narrator in the show because he has no reason to believe, like the character Deadpool, that telling an audience of another universe (us) the truth of his intentions will have any impact on his plans in his own. In other words, Frank Underwood just told us all a very vital truth and we actually should ignore who is playing him, deep fake or not, because not only is that this particular character’s schtick, it’s also obviously true and we have no reason to doubt it. Ukraine war images have been faked a la “Wag the Dog” and we see other political figures wearing masks and using stages that are obviously stages, etc. It’s a strange medium but obvious to anyone who watched that show, which, dare I say, most people in the country have.
It’s been posted on both Tucker’s and Spacy’s. accounts and neither of them have bothered to step in and explain what’s really going on here. Why? Because we’re meant to figure the damn thing out for ourselves. It’s a message in and of itself that we need to activate critical thinking and if we haven’t seen the show, to have others who have seen it inform our theories through the public square, such as we’re doing now.
If anything, it feels like a fun way to warm the masses up to the Q posts, as that’s exactly what’s needed to understand what the hell is going on there.
I think that's why it was done. To sharpen our discernment, which we really need sharpened.
I'm looking forward to the reveal. I'd really like to see an alternate ending where Spacey unscrews his head and hands it to Tucker. Craniums everywhere would explode, which would totally justify the expense.