Chloe Melas
The best way to scare the studios this Halloween? Avoid dressing up as characters from struck series and movies. As striking actors enter spooky season, SAG-AFTRA issued a statement over the weekend clarifying its guidelines released to members looking to “celebrate Halloween this year while also staying in solidarity” with the strike. “Choose costumes inspired by generalized characters and figures ,” the actors union recommended in a statement Oct. 18.
Former SAG-AFTRA president Melissa Gilbert responded with a post on Instagram, writing, “THIS is what you guys come up with? Literally no one cares what anyone wears for Halloween.” Ryan Reynolds also quipped in a tweet posted on X: “I look forward to screaming ‘scab’ at my 8 year old all night. She’s not in the union but she needs to learn.” In response, SAG-AFTRA clarified to NBC News that its rules were “meant to help avoid promoting struck work. ... It does not apply to anyone’s kids.
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