Practical + AI workflow help: how to fake opening/closing shutters?

I need some help figuring out the best workflow for a short video I’m recreating.

There’s an old movie clip where an elderly woman opens a pair of painted wooden shutters and leans out of a window. I need to recreate the same camera move, but instead of the old lady, I’ll have an actor who I’m shooting in a studio on green screen.

My plan is to put a table in front of her and cover it with green cloth so it can serve as the window sill in the final composite. But my main question is about the shutters themselves. We can’t film real shutters, and most likely the whole window setup will have to be AI-generated.

So what’s the best approach for creating the opening and closing shutters?
Should I build some cardboard “shutter” stand-ins, cover them in green cloth, and have the actor interact with them on set? Or is it smarter to skip the props entirely and animate the shutters digitally from scratch? Or maybe it is easier to recreate everything with AI and the new masking tools in the latest version of Premiere?

For extra context: the client originally suggested shooting everything in a random hotel room and only gave me one hour with the actor. They thought AI could just “do everything.” I tried explaining that AI is powerful, but it’s not a magic pill—you don’t get a shot like that in a couple of clicks.

Any advice from people who’ve combined practical green screen with AI or CGI elements is appreciated. What would be the cleanest workflow for this?

Thank you