# Screen Actors Guild

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screen-actors-guild/190257>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 22, 2003, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screen-actors-guild/190257 "2003-07-22T22:52:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screen-actors-guild/190257/1 "2003-07-22T22:52:33Z")

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I was reading Bruce Campbell’s book _If chins could kill_, and at one point, it talks about the making of **The Evil Dead**. One of the things I noticed was that most of the main actors and actressers got in trouble with the Screen Actors Guild afterwards for being in that movie, despite being credited under a different name. Something it about the movie being “non-union” shoot.

Could someone explain to me exactly why it upset the SAG for them to be doing a shoestring movie so much?

_Hides in case he is beaten by some fiercly pro-union people_