They won’t “enforce” it. If you violate the request and you ever want to work with people in either union, you risk losing that opportunity for life. People will find out the same way we find out that someone made a bunch of ill advised Tweets or wore an inappropriate Halloween costume in the deep dark past or participated in the Jan 6h riot. There will be thousands of pictures on social media or just stored on a hard drive. You will get outed one day and it won’t go well for you.
Ryan George: “Oh myyy God.”
Or, maybe, it will have absolutely no impact on your real life because you have exactly zero intersection with them besides the characters they portray.
Well obviously. It won’t affect my life either because I’ll be over 200 miles away and I’ve never worn a movie character costume in my life. They don’t care what most people do, only what people who wish to work with them in the future do. That’s how it was explicitly described in the like several posts up.
Kinda shows a part of why 89.9 percent of Americans say “no thanks” to unions.
…well, “89.9 percent of Americans say “no thanks” to unions” because many of that 89.9% tend to worship unrestrained capitalism and think unions are socialist and socialism is the work of the devil.
I wouldn’t say the entire 90% (rounding) care that strongly.
Realistically, most of that don’t care as much as they care about having a job, and hoping it’s not too abusive.
…this is getting off-topic: but unions have been the subject of fairly militant propaganda campaigns for decades, and it isn’t any surprise that most Americans don’t understand the value and want no part in them. It isn’t because of things like messy comms.
And SAG really could have been clearer here. The comms from the WGA have been really good: part of the reason for that is that writers are really good at writing. But the other thing here is that apart from a commercial actors strike in 2000, SAG-AFTRA haven’t really taken any substantial industrial action since the 80’s. The WGA have plenty of people that were around during the last WGA strikes in 2007. They have existing systems, smaller group of people to wrangle. SAG-AFTRA simply doesn’t and they are playing a bit of catch-up.
Whereas in video the actors sound on point and concise while the writers appear bitter and unaccustemmed to speaking in public.
Shocking!
…not what I’ve experienced. The writers I’ve seen have been articulating their points on camera very well. Here’s David Simons:
Alex O’Keefe today:
https://twitter.com/cnni/status/1681095462353350657
Can you give me an example of a writer appearing “bitter?”
Because I wasn’t talking about individuals here. I’m talking about comms that are coming from the Guild.
You provided no examples whatsoever.
Not shocking!
It was more of a joke that writers write well and speak poorly and actors vice-versa. Calm down Beavis.
No trouble at all to treat your posts in this thread like a joke, B.
I dunno; what you said in post #69 didn’t come across to me as a joke, but rather, an observation based on actually seeing video of writers versus actors. If you’d actually intended it as a joke, it wasn’t worded well.
I am a cosplayer, and the father of cosplayers, and we all disagree.
Cosplaying as a film character right now is a form of crossing the picket line.
Any? Even public domain ones?
What film character right now is in public domain?
Not here for your pedantry - I very obviously was following on from the earlier more precisely-worded guidelines from the guild. “refrain from promoting struck work, including past productions that would have been struck if produced today”. " avoid cosplaying anything TV or Film"
Although I think my No-Face costume would be OK, I think my PJ LOTR Hobbit villager one is not.
Mickey Mouse as depicted in Steamboat Willie, of course!
But how would you cosplay as that? Hmmmm…