SAG-AFTRA is about to begin a strike effective at midnight Pt on July 14, with actors hitting the picket lines bright and early on Friday morning.
But while they will be making signs, marching, and making their voices heard around Hollywood studios as early as tomorrow, there’s a lot the union is ordering them not to do.Like the WGA before it, SAG-AFTRA ahead of its strike has issued its formal Strike Rules, a memo (obtained by IndieWire) sent to the guild’s over 160,000 members that outlines the dos and don’ts (mainly don’ts) actors should participate in if they want to show solidarity.Beyond any on-camera work, whether principal or even background or as a stand-in, actors will also be barred from doing promotional work for anything that was made — past, present, or future — under the terms of the TV-theatrical agreements.
And as lead negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland reiterated during Thursday’s press conference,…
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