I wasn't suggesting World Trigger is a nonunion dub. Assuming it's Ocean again, the Vancouver actors should be getting their ACTRA rates and benefits. I was simply pointing out that if Toei had issues with Ocean hiring talent outside of their usual scope, they wouldn't promote (potentially even request) Sinclair's involvement. Ocean has history with mixing ACTRA members and non-ACTRA members in their productions. We know Kai did cast some characters out of Calgary. World Trigger did, too. Nonunion U.S. talent shouldn't be any bigger of a barrier beyond remote recording logistics (which is something they've done with Vanguard Overdress).TheBlackPaladin wrote: Thu Dec 02, 2021 8:09 pmAs far as Ian Sinclair being a "non-union actor" is concerned, that doesn't necessarily mean the World Trigger dub is non-union (though it certainly points to that being the case). A quirk of the US's ridiculously convoluted organized labor laws is that there are two kinds of states when it comes to unions: "union security states" and "right-to-work" states. If you join a union, then no matter where in the country you are based, you are technically not allowed to work on non-union projects and you are required to pay union dues in order to retain membership...however, depending on where you live, you may not have to join. In union security states (like California and New York), you have to join a union in order to get union work. In right-to-work states (like Texas), you are not required to join a union at all to get union work. That's how actors who aren't in LA like Colleen Clinkenbeard, Kaitlin Glass, and Mike McFarland have recently been in union dubs for a few Netflix shows.
As for Dai's distribution, well, after Kai you'd think they'd know better than to put the cart in front of the horse again. With World Trigger, they did a 5-episode pilot before being picked up by Primo TV.
