Actor Billy Porter has been facing financial constraints due to the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike in Hollywood. Thousands of actors and entertainers are striking in Hollywood and around the country with the Writers Guild of America (WGA) as they demand a rise in pay and residuals in the streaming era. The strike has impacted Porter financially.
Speaking to Evening Standard, he admitted that he has had to make some cutbacks after some of his upcoming projects were put on pause when writers and actors took to the picket lines, The Hollywood Reporter reported. “I have to sell my house,” he told the outlet. “Because we’re on strike. And I don’t know when we’re gonna go back [to work]. The life of an artist, until you make fuck-you money — which I haven’t made yet — is still check-to-check. I was supposed to be in a new movie, and on a new television show starting in September. None of that is happening.”
