Earlier this month, SAG-AFTRA leadership released an oddly anti-fun statement asking its members not to dress up in any Halloween costumes “inspired by struck content”—as in, characters from movies and TV shows owned by the studios they’re currently striking against—and to instead dress as “generalized characters and figures” like “ghost, zombie, [and] spider.” The guidelines weren’t received particularly well, and after a little backlash that involved Ryan Reynolds saying he would call his daughter a “scab,” the union released a second statement confirming that the children of SAG-AFTRA members could still wear whatever costumes they wanted to.
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Well, it is now Halloween weekend, and—shocker—a lot of famous people ignored the whole “dress up as a generic ghost and not a famous fictional ghost” thing. One of those people is Megan Fox, who attended a Casamigos-sponsored Halloween party this weekend while dressed as Gogo Yubari from Kill Bill, alongside Machine Gun Kelly as The Bride herself (not a bad concept, even if Machine Gun Kelly’s execution wasn’t particularly inspired), in conscious violation of the guidelines. And just to make it a little clearer how Fox felt about being told to dress as a generic ghost, she uploaded a bunch of photos of the costumes on Instagram and cheekily tagged SAG-AFTRA.
Of course, other famouses this weekend—including at this same Casamigos party—wore illegal costumes. For example, Chord Overstreet and Glen Powell went as Ricky Bobby and Cal Naughton Jr., but they just look like a couple of bros who wanted to say “If you don’t chew Big Red, the fuck you” all night rather than stick it to any wet blankets out there.
But there were also celebrities who followed the rules, like Kyle MachLachlan and Desiree Gruber, who went as… Pickleball zombie and carnivorous squirrel trainer? If those are licensed characters, then we want to know where we can watch whatever thing they’re in.
