Tyler Perry Studios Implements Covid Vaccine Mandate For Casts & Crews

deadline.com:

EXCLUSIVE: Once again, Tyler Perry is not waiting for the entertainment industry to adopt a uniform policy and has introduced a mandate requiring vaccinations for casts and crews in Zone A of shows at his Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta.The return-to-work protocols agreed upon by the Hollywood unions and major studios in June 2021 — and since extended — stopped short of mandating vaccinations.

Instead, they gave producers “the option to implement mandatory vaccination policies for casts and crew in Zone A on a production-by-production basis.”Since then, Netflix and Disney adopted a blanket policy for their U.S.

productions, requiring vaccinations for everyone working in Zone A, which consists of the actors and those who come in close proximity to them.

The other studios have done it on a show-by-show basis.Tyler Perry Studios this week notified casts and crews that all actors and crew members who interact with them have to be fully vaccinated (that includes a booster if the person is eligible.)I hear the decision was made after Perry attempted to start production on a soon-to-be-officially-greenlighted second season of his BET+ series All the Queen’s Men.