Ana de la Reguera was the only actor to work with Tig Notaro on 'Army of the Dead' after she replaced Chris D'Elia

• Warning: Spoilers below if you have not seen "Army of the Dead."
• Ana de la Reguera told Insider what it was like to be the only actor to do reshoots with Tig Notaro.
• Notaro replaced Chris D'Elia in the pilot role after sexual misconduct accusations surfaced.

Tig Notaro spent most of her time making Zack Snyder's "Army of the Dead" working by herself and surrounded by green screen. However, there are two scenes where she worked alongside an actual person.

Snyder said he spent "a few million" to digitally replace comic Chris D'Elia's sarcastic helicopter pilot role in his Netflix zombie heist movie with Notaro after D'Elia faced sexual misconduct accusations after filming wrapped.

That meant Notaro had to do every scene D'Elia did, but by herself. CGI magic would then erase D'Elia and place Notaro in the movie as one of the members of a mercenary group going into zombie-infested Las Vegas to take millions from a casino vault.

In other words, in all the shots of Notaro with the team - including her interaction with Dave Bautista at the end of the movie in her helicopter - she was never acting alongside them. It was all movie magic.

Except for two scenes.

Ana de la Reguera, who plays Maria Cruz in the movie, revealed to Insider that she was the only actor who was called in to act alongside Notaro in the reshoots.

"The scene where I drop off the gas canisters on the roof," Reguera explained, "I shot that originally with Chris so we had to reshoot that."

"And the scene where the heist is being explained by the team in a warehouse," she continued, "originally Chris was standing next to me, and he's so tall, and Tig might be shorter than me, so I had to be there for her shooting that scene just to get the eye lines right."

Reguera said she built a quick friendship with Notaro during the reshoots and even got the comic's review of the movie because, at that point, Notaro was the only actor to have seen it.

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"She saw the movie before doing her reshoots so she saw it eight months before any of us had," Reguera said. "So I was like, 'Did you like the movie? Is it good?' And she was like, 'Yes, it's actually very good.' And it gave me relief because Tig seems like someone who wouldn't lie about that. She's going to be honest."

"Army of the Dead" is currently available on Netflix.