{"id":82975,"date":"2024-03-15T11:01:34","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T11:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/15\/billy-porters-financial-woes-are-unacceptable\/"},"modified":"2024-03-15T11:01:34","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T11:01:34","slug":"billy-porters-financial-woes-are-unacceptable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/15\/billy-porters-financial-woes-are-unacceptable\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Porter’s financial woes are ‘unacceptable’"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Billy Porter says the financial hardships he’s suffered as an actor are “unacceptable”.<\/p>\n

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Billy Porter says actors shouldn’t be earning such low wages<\/p>\n

The 54-year-old ’80 for Brady’ star was forced to sell his house during the 2023 actors strike when members of the SAG-AFTRA union walked out as part of a dispute with studios and streaming giants partly over pay issues – and Billy is adamant it’s not fair for big name stars like the cast of ‘Friends’ to be making millions while actors lower down the ladder struggle to make ends meet.<\/p>\n

He told the Guardian newspaper: “Those ‘Friends’ people are making $100 million a year! I\u2019m getting six-cent cheques! It\u2019s not OK!”<\/p>\n

Billy went on to insist his pay from 2021 movie ‘Cinderella’ was only enough to cover his mortgage for four months. <\/p>\n

He added: “People have this perception that we\u2019re millionaires. You know how much I made on ‘Cinderella’? Only enough to cover my mortgage for four months, maybe. <\/p>\n

\n“It\u2019s unacceptable that I\u2019m one award away from an Egot [an Emmy, Grammy, a Tony and an Oscar] and one strike puts me out of my house.”<\/p>\n

\nHe went on to say of the issues in Hollywood: “Our deals are going away, our jobs are going away, everyone\u2019s downsizing, but the people in the C-suite [senior business executives] are still making [money].<\/p>\n

\n“Whose fault is it that the business can\u2019t sustain itself and is going to implode? Streaming destroyed the artist\u2019s ability to make money, our ability to participate in capitalism. Being an artist, we\u2019re always freelance, and very often blue collar.”<\/p>\n

\nBilly previously opened up about his financial troubles during the strike in an interview with the Evening Standard newspaper, admitting he was putting his house on the market because he wasn’t bringing in any money.<\/p>\n

\nHe explained: “I have to sell my house. The life of an artist, until you make [big] money – which I haven\u2019t made yet – is still cheque-to-cheque.<\/p>\n

\n“I was supposed to be in a new movie, and on a new television show starting in September. None of that is happening. So to the [unnamed Hollywood executive] person who said \u2018We\u2019re going to starve them out until they have to sell their apartments’ – you\u2019ve already starved me out”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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