LOS ANGELES—In Hollywood, cleaning soap opera characters portrayed by vaccine skeptics are being killed off or shipped away, set crews for Walt Disney Co. ’s “Black Panther” sequel and different tasks are being reprimanded or reassigned, and a few A-list stars received’t work with colleagues who haven’t gotten a jab.
As movie and TV manufacturing ramps up within the wake of crippling Covid-19 shutdowns, life on set is totally different. Studios and streaming companies, wanting to get the circulate of programming again to an everyday tempo, are shouldering new prices and chopping ties with unvaccinated forged and crew.
