SAG-AFTRA has issued a press release, certainly a clarification, on it’s Halloween costume guidelines for hanging actors, which has been a lot mentioned on-line since The Hollywood Reporter first posted about the quite strict-sounding pointers Wednesday.
No, the guild isn’t backing off its guidelines, which state that card-carrying actors ought to persist with generic costume concepts (comparable to “ghost, zombie, or spider”), quite than particular characters which could inadvertently promote a struck studio’s content material (e.g. most of filmic popular culture).
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Late Friday, the guild despatched the next rationalization/clarification: “SAG-AFTRA issued Halloween steerage in response to questions from content material creators and members about the way to assist the strike throughout this festive season. This was meant to assist them keep away from selling struck work, and it’s the newest in a sequence of pointers we have now issued. It doesn’t apply to anybody’s children. We’re on strike for essential causes, and have been for practically 100 days. Our primary precedence stays getting the studios again to the negotiating desk so we will get a good deal for our members, and at last put our trade again to work.”
The assertion follows some celebrities mocking the principles, comparable to this Ryan Reynolds tweet, which particularly referred to as out the children angle: “I sit up for screaming ‘scab’ at my 8 12 months previous all night time. She’s not within the union however she must study.”
Whereas Mandy Moore wrote on her Instagram Tales: “Is that this a joke? Come on @sagaftra. That is what’s essential? We’re asking you to barter in good religion on our behalf. So many people throughout each facet of this trade have been sacrificing mightily for months. Get again to the desk and get a good deal so everybody can get again to work.”
The SAG-AFTRA strike is nearing its 100th day after talks broke off with studios on Saturday with out a deal.
The unique spookily restrictive-about-your-personal-time-with-your-friends-and-family pointers are embedded beneath. “Let’s use our collective energy to ship a loud and clear message to our struck employers that we are going to not promote their content material with out a truthful contract,” the guild acknowledged.
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