Billy Porter says ‘f**k you’ to Bob Iger as Hollywood strikes force him to sell his home

“The life of an artist, until you make f**k-you money — which I haven’t made yet — is still check-to-check.”

Billy Porter, New York Pride 50 – 2019
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Out actor Billy Porter opened up about the toll the Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) strike is having on his finances, telling the Evening Standard that people don’t realize how many actors must live paycheck-to-paycheck. Porter said the studio executives’ unwillingness to compromise with the actors’ union means he now has to sell his house.

Porter said it hurts his feelings when people critique actors like him as being part of “a bunch of millionaires just trying to get more millions.”

“They think we’re entitled,” he said, “Meanwhile, we’re getting six-cent checks.” He went on to blast Disney CEO Bob Iger, who recently called the union’s demands “unrealistic.”

“To hear Bob Iger say that our demands for a living wage are unrealistic? While he makes $78,000 a day? I don’t have any words for it, but: ‘F**k you.’”

He then explained why he…

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