Former SAG-AFTRA president slams Halloween costume restrictions 

SAG-AFTRA’s Halloween costume guidelines encourage its members to “celebrate Halloween this year while also staying in solidarity.” This means choosing costumes “inspired by generalized characters and figures” such as “ghost, zombie, spider, etc,” rather than recognizable characters from struck studios. However, members are free to dress up as characters from non-struck content, such as animated TV shows. The guild also suggested that members “don’t post photos of costumes inspired by struck content to social media.“

Melissa Gilbert, who served as SAG president from 2001 to 2005, took to Instagram to comment on the Halloween costume guidelines. “THIS is what you guys come up with?” Gilbert wrote. “Literally no one cares what anyone wears for Halloween. I mean, do you really think this kind of infantile stuff is going to end the strike? We look like a joke. Please tell me you’re going to make this rule go away….and go negotiate!“