Netflix will require that its actors and their close contacts be vaccinated against Covid-19 on all of its U.S.-based productions, TheWrap has learned.
The streaming giant becomes the first Hollywood company to broadly mandate any kind of vaccination. For now, the mandate only covers those considered “Zone A,” which includes the cast and everyone who comes in close contact with them. The mandates are part of the new changes to Hollywood’s Return to Work agreement, which was renewed earlier this month.
Netflix declined to comment.
The streaming service would not be the only one to implement this mandate. Universal Content Productions’ Watergate TV series “Gaslit” for Starz currently requires those in Zone A to be vaccinated — though its star Sean Penn wants them to go even further and make vaccinations mandatory for the entire crew.
It took industry guilds and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television...
The streaming giant becomes the first Hollywood company to broadly mandate any kind of vaccination. For now, the mandate only covers those considered “Zone A,” which includes the cast and everyone who comes in close contact with them. The mandates are part of the new changes to Hollywood’s Return to Work agreement, which was renewed earlier this month.
Netflix declined to comment.
The streaming service would not be the only one to implement this mandate. Universal Content Productions’ Watergate TV series “Gaslit” for Starz currently requires those in Zone A to be vaccinated — though its star Sean Penn wants them to go even further and make vaccinations mandatory for the entire crew.
It took industry guilds and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television...
- 7/28/2021
- by Tim Baysinger
- The Wrap
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