EXCLUSIVE: “We are not going to have the UK used as a backdoor to undermine SAG-AFTRA’s dispute,” the leader of UK actors union Equity has declared. Speaking exclusively to Deadli…

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        1 year ago

        I mean, it depends how “in the loop” you want to be. I was mainly thinking about how shows like “Industry” and “House of the Dragon” are still filming, with British actors who are part of Equity. UK actors have no legal standing to strike in solidarity, so all Equity can do is make the right noises, as the leader appears to be doing in this article.

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    1 year ago

    I worked as an extra in Canada. Scab work is half the jobs, especially for commercials. You sign NDAs to keep it secret from the US unions.