{"id":74458,"date":"2024-02-08T23:01:31","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T23:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/08\/billy-porter-insists-hes-blue-collar-worker-who-never-stops-grafting\/"},"modified":"2024-02-08T23:01:31","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T23:01:31","slug":"billy-porter-insists-hes-blue-collar-worker-who-never-stops-grafting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/08\/billy-porter-insists-hes-blue-collar-worker-who-never-stops-grafting\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Porter insists he&apos;s &apos;blue collar worker&apos; who never stops grafting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2024-02-08\" datetime=\"1707433291\" pubdate=\"\">8 February 2024<\/time>\n<\/p>\n<p>Billy Porter has insisted he is a \u201cblue collar worker\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Billy Porter has insisted he is a \u2018blue collar worker\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The Tony award-winning actor, 54, has an estimated net worth of $10 million, but said the SAG-AFTRA writers\u2019 and actors\u2019 strikes that last year crippled Hollywood made his bank balance so lean he was forced to sell his home.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about how he is delighted to be back at work with a string of projects in the pipeline, Billy told Page Six: \u201cI have a new album out called \u2018Black Mona Lisa\u2019, I have a movie out, \u2018Our Son\u2019, and I have a song with the movie called \u2018Always Be My Man\u2019. I am always working.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust because you are working does not mean you are rich\u2026 I am a blue collar freelance worker, period.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was on strike for 118 days. Ain\u2019t no cheques coming in when that happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nBilly spoke at the 8th Blue Jacket Fashion Show at Moonlight Studios in New York City, and stressed he didn\u2019t want people\u2019s sympathy for his cash woes during the Hollywood walk-outs.<\/p>\n<p>\nJokingly referencing the hit Broadway musical \u2018Evita\u2019, he added: \u201cPlease, I am working. I am blessed. Don\u2019t cry for me Argentina!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cI am not rich by any stretch of the imagination. Please, we are working hard, yes\u2026 that\u2019s it though.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nHe added he had sympathy with his fellow performer \u2018The Color Purple\u2019 actress Taraji P Henson, 53, who recently spoke out about being underpaid in Hollywood.<\/p>\n<p>\nShe welled up as she told journalist Gayle King, 69, in an interview in December: \u201cI\u2019m just tired of working so hard, being gracious at what I do (and) getting paid a fraction of the cost\u2026 I hear people go, \u2018You work a lot.\u2019 Well, I have to. The math ain\u2019t math-ing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nBilly said: \u201cWhen we saw Taraji break down, it was real. It was the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/billy-porter-insists-blue-collar-worker-who-never-stops-grafting-1394259.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>8 February 2024 Billy Porter has insisted he is a \u201cblue collar worker\u201d. Billy Porter has insisted he is a \u2018blue collar worker\u2019 The Tony award-winning actor, 54, has an estimated net worth of $10 million, but said the SAG-AFTRA writers\u2019 and actors\u2019 strikes that last year crippled Hollywood made his bank balance so lean [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1930,399,6417],"class_list":{"0":"post-74458","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-billy-porter","9":"tag-gayle-king","10":"tag-taraj-p-henson"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}