{"id":1995349,"date":"2023-08-09T12:44:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T16:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/billy-porter-claims-he-has-to-sell-his-house-due-to-hollywood-strike-already-starved-me-out\/"},"modified":"2023-08-09T12:45:56","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T16:45:56","slug":"billy-porter-claims-he-has-to-sell-his-house-due-to-hollywood-strike-already-starved-me-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/billy-porter-claims-he-has-to-sell-his-house-due-to-hollywood-strike-already-starved-me-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Porter forced to sell house amid Hollywood strike, claims it has left him destitute."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbilly-porter-claims-he-has-to-sell-his-house-due-to-hollywood-strike-already-starved-me-out%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1995349&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><blockquote>\n<h2>Actor Billy \u2063Porter Claims He Must Sell \u200dHis Home Amidst Hollywood Strike<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Renowned \u200cactor <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/celebrities\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Billy Porter<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/just-in-floyd-county-georgia-terminates-election-director-after-statewide-audit-discovers-uncounted-votes\/\" title=\"JUST IN: Floyd County, Georgia Terminates Election Director After Statewide Audit Discovers Uncounted Votes\">revealed<\/a> that \u200che is forced to sell his\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/no-spike-in-florida-coronavirus-cases-despite-no-mask-mandate\/\" title=\"No Spike in Florida Coronavirus Cases Despite No Mask Mandate\">home<\/a> \u2063as \u2063the ongoing writers&#8217; and actors&#8217; <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/strike\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">strike<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  in Hollywood continues\u200c to \u200ddrag on.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Struggling Artists and\u200d the Impact of the Strike<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">During an \u200binterview with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/insider\/billy-porter-interview-actor-writers-strike-strange-loop-b1098710.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The \u2064Evening Standard<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the \u2063star of\u200c &#8220;Pose&#8221; discussed the \u2064detrimental\u2063 effects of the strike. Porter\u200c expressed his frustration, stating,\u2063 &#8220;I have to sell my house because we&#8217;re on strike. And I don&#8217;t know when we&#8217;re \u200cgonna go back. The life \u2063of an artist,\u200b until you make f***-you money \u2014 which I haven&#8217;t made yet \u2014 is still check-to-check.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Porter further\u200d revealed, &#8220;I was supposed \u200bto be in a new <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/hollywood\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">movie<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  \u200dand on a new television show starting in September.\u2064 None of\u200b that is happening. So\u2062 to the person\u2063 who said, &#8216;We&#8217;re going to starve them out until they have to sell their apartments&#8217; \u2014 you&#8217;ve already starved me out.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Anonymous \u200cExecutives and Delayed\u2064 Negotiations<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Porter&#8217;s reference to an anonymous Hollywood \u200bexecutive stems from a statement made to <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2023\/07\/writers-strike-hollywood-studios-deal-fight-wga-actors-1235434335\/\">Deadline<\/a>. \u2062The executive\u200d claimed that \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/billy-porter-claims-he-has-to-sell-his-house-due-to-hollywood-strike-already-starved-me-out\/\" title=\"Billy Porter forced to sell house amid Hollywood strike, claims it has left him destitute.\">studios \u2063intentionally\u200c delayed negotiations<\/a> with the Writer&#8217;s Guild of America \u200b(WGA) until\u2062 members ran out \u200bof \u2063money.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>The Need \u200cfor Contract Evolution<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Discussing the changing\u200c landscape of the entertainment industry,\u200b Porter emphasized the necessity for contract evolution.\u2063 He explained,\u200b &#8220;In the late \u2063&#8217;50s, early &#8217;60s, when they \u200bstructured a way for \u200cartists to \u200bbe compensated properly through residual [payments], it allowed for the two percent of\u200c working actors \u2064\u2014 and there\u2063 are 150,000 people in our union \u2014 \u2063who work consistently&#8230; Then streaming came\u200d in.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Porter continued, &#8220;There&#8217;s no contract for it&#8230;\u2063 And they don&#8217;t have to be transparent \u2062with \u2063the\u200c numbers \u2014 it&#8217;s not \u200dNielsen ratings\u2064 anymore. The streaming companies are notoriously \u200copaque \u200dwith \u2064their viewership figures. The business has evolved. So the \u2064contract\u200c has to \u200cevolve\u2064 and change,\u200d period.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Calling Out Disney \u2063CEO Bob Iger<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Porter also\u200d directed his criticism \u200dtowards Disney \u200cCEO Bob Iger. In\u2063 response\u2062 to \u200dIger&#8217;s \u200ddismissal of the union&#8217;s demands \u200das\u2062 &#8220;unrealistic&#8221; and &#8220;disturbing,&#8221;\u2063 Porter exclaimed, &#8220;To hear \u2063Bob Iger say that our\u200c demands for a living wage are unrealistic?\u2064 While he makes\u200c $78,000 \u2064a day? I don&#8217;t have any words for \u2063it, \u200bbut: f*** \u2062you.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Porter added, &#8220;That&#8217;s not useful, so I&#8217;ve\u200b kept my mouth shut. I haven&#8217;t engaged because\u2062 I&#8217;m so\u200d enraged&#8230; When I go back, I will join the picket\u200d lines.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>The Misconceptions and Hesitations<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">During \u200dthe interview, \u200dPorter expressed his\u2063 reluctance to complain about his pay due to the misconceptions held \u2063by some.\u200c He shared, &#8220;One of the reasons I can&#8217;t talk about the\u200b strike\u200d is because \u2062of \u2064the s*** that I&#8217;ve \u200bseen some lay people\u200d write about us: &#8216;Just a \u200bbunch of millionaires trying to get\u200c more millions.'&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Billy Porter plans to sell his home due to the ongoing writers&#8217; and actors&#8217; strike in Hollywood. In an interview with The Evening Standard, the &#8220;Pose&#8221; star revealed the impact of the strike, stating, &#8220;I have to sell my house&#8230; I don&#8217;t know when we&#8217;re gonna end this.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":1995350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1995349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1995349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1995350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1995349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1995349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1995349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}