During the 2023 actors’ strike, the SAG-AFTRA union issued some guidelines regarding Halloween costumes that its members should avoid wearing. “Choose costumes inspired by generalized characters and figures (ghost, zombie, spider, etc.),” read an infographic on the organization’s website. The goal was to avoid promoting content belonging to the studios and streaming platforms that the union was on strike against. However, Megan Fox ignored that request.
On her Instagram page, Fox shared photos of her Halloween costume inspired by the Japanese assassin Gogo Yubari from the Quentin Tarantino movie, “Kill Bill.” The look consisted of a schoolgirl uniform, white platform Mary Janes, and bloody tears dripping down her face. Machine Gun Kelly made it a couple’s costume by dressing up as the film’s protagonist, Beatrix Kiddo, in a bloodstained yellow ensemble. Fox’s caption (via Pop Crave) was a pointed one: she simply tagged SAG-AFTRA.
On X, formerly known as Twitter, some people called Fox out for disrespecting an organization that was trying to help performers like her. “She thought she ate but technically biting the hand that feeds her,” one person tweeted. Her critics included “Abbott Elementary” star Lisa Ann Walter, who addressed Fox in a tweet that read, “What a rebel. Keep posturing for stupid s***, pretty lady. Meanwhile we’ll be working 10 hours a day – unpaid – to get basic contract earners a fair deal.”
