National | Globalnews.ca: Halloween in Hollywood may look a little different this year as actors have been instructed not to wear costumes inspired by famous movies and TV series amid the ongoing Screen Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA) strike. If A-list couples were hoping on being Barbie and Ken this year, looks like they’ll have to change their plans.
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I was really interested to read this article because everyone on Twitter just assumed that the guidelines were for fans as well as guild members. That scared me a lot because I have been making a mandalorian costume for 8 months and I am really excited to wear it for halloween but since Disney is a company that SAG is negotiating with, if the guidelines were for fans I wouldn’t be able to wear the costume I’ve been working very hard on. Lucky for me I’m used to the internet over reacting so I just googled what was happening and realized it was only for SAG members. I liked that this article also touched on some gray areas regarding this policy. Technically wednesday addams and barbie aren’t originally from movies/shows however because they both had movies and tv shows recently is dressing up as them considered a violation. I also loved Ryan Renold’s tweet about how he looks forward to screaming scab at his daughter (he meant that as a joke of course).
I thought it was interesting to read this article because I had heard about having limited costume options on Instagram, but it was unclear what the rules were. It made more sense to learn that actors themselves could not dress up in these costumes, because they could not promote the people who they are striking against. This information somehow trickled down to my Instagram explore page, I wonder if this will influence mass audiences to do the same. I'm not sure if this would be beneficial to the strike or productive in any way though. Since pop culture is a large part of Halloween costume influence, I sure this did make it harder to find a costume that people enjoyed. I do find it a bit confusing, the way that the lines are drawn. The article says that you are allowed to dress up as animated characters, but not live action ones. I wonder what the reasoning behind this is.
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