Ryan Reynolds, Your Kid’s No Scab; Turns Out SAG-AFTRA’s Studio Halloween Costume Ban Is Adults Only
deadline.comThere will be peace in Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively’s house after all this Halloween. None of the Green Lantern co-stars’ children will be labeled scabs by their father while they trick or treat, thanks to costume guidance clarification by SAG-AFTRA this evening. “SAG-AFTRA issued Halloween guidance in response to questions from content creators and members about how to support the strike during this festive season,” a Guild spokesperson said Friday as the de facto ban on costumes was widely mocked and derided. “This was meant to help them avoid promoting struck work, and it is the latest in a series of guidelines we have issued.” “It does not apply to anyone’s kids,” SAG-AFTRA is now stating. “We are on strike for important reasons, and have been for nearly 100 days.
Our number one priority remains getting the studios back to the negotiating table so we can get a fair deal for our members, and finally put our industry back to work,” the Guild concluded.
All of which means, as SAG-AFTRA’s 160,000 members enter their fourth month on strike and no new talks are scheduled with the studios since the latter suspended deliberations on October 11, the Deadpool actor’s 8-year-old can dress up as Deadpool or Barbie or any other big screen or small screen character she wants.
Whether or not, there are an abundance of zombie and skeletons on the picket lines next week and at the end of the month, SAG-AFTA member Reynold’s playful jab of his union also saw others take a much sharper approach in reaction to the so-called guidance.
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