{"id":83361,"date":"2024-03-16T16:44:45","date_gmt":"2024-03-16T16:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/16\/billy-porter-on-race-recognition-and-the-middle-east\/"},"modified":"2024-03-16T16:44:45","modified_gmt":"2024-03-16T16:44:45","slug":"billy-porter-on-race-recognition-and-the-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/16\/billy-porter-on-race-recognition-and-the-middle-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Porter on race, recognition and the Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div> <center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2018Those Friends people make $100m a year! I\u2019m getting six-cent cheques! It\u2019s not OK!\u2019: Billy Porter on race, recognition and the Middle East <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HJXIdmeuGv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/HJXIdmeuGv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Guardian (@guardian) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/guardian\/status\/1768548291883434274?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">March 15, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/guardian\/status\/1768548291883434274\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>highly recommend everyone to read the whole interview, it&#8217;s a lot<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Porter is working on a  James Baldwin biopic rn.  James Baldwin was an outspoken advocate for Palestine. Porter doesn&#8217;t know much about Palestine or seems to care:<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cI\u2019ve been getting a lot of bullshit online about it \u2013 I\u2019m like, \u2018I don\u2019t know, y\u2019all!\u2019 The man\u2019s been dead since 1987, please!\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; the interviewer inquired more on this:<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cThere\u2019s nothing to navigate \u2013 I\u2019m not James Baldwin, he\u2019s a character, so I have to be true to the character. I don\u2019t know what he was talking about in the 40s, 50s, 60s \u2013 it\u2019s 2024 now. I don\u2019t have the history to even know what the version of the Israel-Palestine conflict was when he was around. It\u2019s not a part of the script \u2013 his civil rights work in America is what we\u2019re focused on, more than what he thought about the crisis in the Middle East.\u201d&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Porter doesn&#8217;t think it&#8217;s fair the Friends cast makes more in residuals than he does<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Porter doesn&#8217;t think it&#8217;s fair he had to sell his house after getting divorced and the strikes impacted his income<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Porter name drops Viola Davis three times:<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cShe played every crack mother, every mother of a drug addict, every stereotypical dark-skinned Black woman role they threw at her, and she imbued those characters with dignity. I was like, \u2018That\u2019s what I\u2019m gonna do.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p><\/center> <\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/128021129.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Those Friends people make $100m a year! I\u2019m getting six-cent cheques! It\u2019s not OK!\u2019: Billy Porter on race, recognition and the Middle East https:\/\/t.co\/HJXIdmeuGv \u2014 The Guardian (@guardian) March 15, 2024 source highly recommend everyone to read the whole interview, it&#8217;s a lot &#8211; Porter is working on a James Baldwin biopic rn. James Baldwin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83361","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83361","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=83361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}