SAG-AFTRA’s strict rules for actors: What is and isn’t allowed during Hollywood’s biggest strike in decades

On July 14, Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) formally declared a strike towards studios and streamers. The actors’ union, which reportedly represents round 160,000 performers, together with movie and tv actors, worldwide, additionally issued an order laying out the principles its members should comply with. During the strike, SAG-AFTRA members can not take part in a variety of actions – movie excursions and promotions to festivals, premieres and award exhibits. Also learn: Hollywood actors unite with screenwriters in historic strike towards wages, AI menace

According to the strike order, all SAG-AFTRA members have been instructed to not take part in any manufacturing lined by theatrical contracts. This means not solely no on-camera work for movie and TV, but additionally prohibition from doing background work and any promotion for initiatives made underneath the contract, together with interviews, crimson carpets, promotional social media, premieres and fan conventions. Pre-production work, together with auditions, are additionally not allowed.

Things actors can not do throughout SAG-AFTRA strike

As per a report by Variety, all lined providers and performing work underneath the TV/ theatrical contracts have to be withheld, together with however not restricted to on-camera work corresponding to appearing, singing, dancing, performing stunts and puppeteering, amongst others.

Off-camera work, corresponding to, TV trailers (promos) and theatrical trailers, voice appearing, singing, narration, stunt coordinating and associated providers are additionally not allowed. Moreover, background work, corresponding to fittings, wardrobe exams, and make-up exams, in addition to rehearsals and digital camera exams, interviews and auditions (together with through self-tape) are prohibited.

Actors should not promote initiatives on social media

Perhaps most probably damaging to imminent occasions involving SAG-AFTRA actors, the strike order additionally forbids promotion and publicity work lined underneath the contracts. The actors should not promote their initiatives through social media, excursions, private appearances, interviews, conventions, fan expos, festivals, panels, premieres/screenings, award exhibits, junkets and podcast appearances.

The order additional stated that negotiating or getting into into or consenting to an settlement to carry out lined providers sooner or later or any new settlement associated to merchandising linked to a lined undertaking and the creation and use of digital replicas, together with by means of the reuse of prior work weren’t allowed.

About SAG-AFTRA strike

Last month, SAG-AFTRA had postponed their preliminary strike deadline, within the hope of constructing a take care of the likes of Netflix and Disney over calls for for higher pay and extra safety towards synthetic intelligence (AI). That extension did not yield any progress in talks, which collapsed on Thursday. In what has now change into the most important Hollywood labour struggle in many years, the SAG-AFTRA declared a strike, efficient simply after midnight on July 14.

SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher throughout Thursday’s press convention slammed Hollywood executives. She stated, “They plead poverty, that they’re losing money left and right, when giving hundreds of millions of dollars to their CEOs. It is disgusting – shame on them.” She added, “We are being victimised by a really grasping enterprise… At some level you need to say, ‘No, we’re not going to take this anymore.’”