# Where do SAG-AFTRA (US), ACTRA Toronto (Canada), MEAA Equity (Australia) and Bectu (UK) agree and differ on auditions, rider timing, body doubles, third-party support, and retention of intimate footage?

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Corrected 2026-10-24 - see C3-B1078-01; the original statements below are kept for history and are superseded where the correction says so. Four union or union-branch documents set a 48-hour advance-notice convention in different places: before call time (SAG-AFTRA Quick Guide, Bectu), before signing or rendering services (ACTRA Toronto), and before the audition for the audition script (MEAA). They differ sharply on nudity at auditions: SAG-AFTRA permits one final modesty-garment audition, ACTRA permits a closed callback for viewing the body with at most five producer-side people, MEAA says nudity or semi-nudity should never be required, proposed or agreed to in an audition. MEAA adds a retention limit (destroy non-final-cut intimate recordings within five years); ACTRA gives performers approval over 50 percent of proposed body doubles.

Four union or union-branch documents set a 48-hour advance-notice convention in different places: before call time (SAG-AFTRA Quick Guide, Bectu), before signing or rendering services (ACTRA Toronto), and before the audition for the audition script (MEAA). They differ sharply on nudity at auditions: SAG-AFTRA permits one final modesty-garment audition, ACTRA permits a closed callback for viewing the body with at most five producer-side people, MEAA says nudity or semi-nudity should never be required, proposed or agreed to in an audition. MEAA adds a retention limit (destroy non-final-cut intimate recordings within five years); ACTRA gives performers approval over 50 percent of proposed body doubles.

Curator correction 2026-10-24 (discovery audit record C3-B1078-01, curator-reviewed C3R-0688; excerpts re-located by independent curator GET 2026-10-24): Correction. C3-B100-G36-03 states that MEAA adds a retention limit (destroy non-final-cut intimate recordings within five years). The MEAA Equity guidelines (November 2020) say two narrower and softer things: the producer shall ensure 'to the best of their ability' that all recordings except the final cut are destroyed (no time limit given), and shall use 'best endeavours' that recordings held for alternative versions or another legitimate purpose are destroyed when no longer required or within five years, whichever is sooner. The five-year bound therefore covers only alternative-version holdings and both duties are best-efforts, not fixed limits. The text was the same when the record was written (the same Wayback payload digest appears in archive snapshots from July 2021 to September 2025; the copy read is the 2026-05-19 snapshot), so the original wording was inaccurate as written, not stale. The live meaa.org PDF address redirected to the home page on 2026-10-24; the archived copy was read.

Curator qualifications: All excerpts located; 48-hour convention placed differently; audition nudity rules differ (SAG-AFTRA modesty garment vs ACTRA closed callback vs MEAA never) - genuine jurisdictional differences kept.

Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

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  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.actratoronto.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/17-Nudity-Simulated-Sexual-Activity-and-Intimacy_v4.pdf",
      "note": "candidate evidence excerpts"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.meaa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/MEAA-Intimacy-Guidelines-for-Stage-and-Screen.pdf",
      "note": "candidate evidence excerpts"
    },
    {
      "url": "http://www.thecdg.co.uk/Secure/bectu-guidance-for-shooting-intimacy-october-2022.pdf",
      "note": "candidate evidence excerpts"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://deadline.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/SAG-AFTRA_quickguide_intimscenes.pdf",
      "note": "candidate evidence excerpts"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.actratoronto.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Best_Practices_030520_web.pdf",
      "note": "candidate evidence excerpts"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://fia-actors.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/EQUITY4.pdf",
      "note": "candidate evidence excerpts"
    }
  ]
}
```

Evidence claims:
- [sourced_fact] Curator correction 2026-10-24 (discovery audit record C3-B1078-01, curator-reviewed C3R-0688; excerpts re-located by independent curator GET 2026-10-24): Correction. C3-B100-G36-03 states that MEAA adds a retention limit (destroy non-final-cut intimate recordings within five years). The MEAA Equity guidelines (November 2020) say two narrower and softer things: the producer shall ensure 'to the best of their ability' that all recordings except the final cut are destroyed (no time limit given), and shall use 'best endeavours' that recordings held for alternative versions or another legitimate purpose are destroyed when no longer required or within five years, whichever is sooner. The five-year bound therefore covers only alternative-version holdings and both duties are best-efforts, not fixed limits. The text was the same when the record was written (the same Wayback payload digest appears in archive snapshots from July 2021 to September 2025; the copy read is the 2026-05-19 snapshot), so the original wording was inaccurate as written, not stale. The live meaa.org PDF address redirected to the home page on 2026-10-24; the archived copy was read. · locator: curator correction paragraph in this record body (C3-B1078-01) · source: https://www.actratoronto.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/17-Nudity-Simulated-Sexual-Activity-and-Intimacy_v4.pdf
- [sourced_fact] SUPERSEDED IN PART 2026-10-24 by curator correction C3-B1078-01 (see the correction claim above); original kept for history: Four union or union-branch documents set a 48-hour advance-notice convention in different places: before call time (SAG-AFTRA Quick Guide, Bectu), before signing or rendering services (ACTRA Toronto), and before the audition for the audition script (MEAA). They differ sharply on nudity at auditions: SAG-AFTRA permits one final modesty-garment audition, ACTRA permits a closed callback for viewing the body with at most five producer-side people, MEAA says nudity or semi-nudity should never be required, proposed or agreed to in an audition. MEAA adds a retention limit (destroy non-final-cut intimate recordings within five years); ACTRA gives performers approval over 50 percent of proposed body doubles. · locator: candidate evidence excerpts · source: https://www.actratoronto.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/17-Nudity-Simulated-Sexual-Activity-and-Intimacy_v4.pdf

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