'To the person who said ‘we’re going to starve them out until they have to sell their apartments,’” Porter said in a new interview “you’ve already starved me out.”
Porter, who's won awards for his roles in "Kinky Boots," and FX's "Pose," is in London now co-producing and starring in the musical "A Strange Loop." In the interview he said he has had to make a number of cost-cutting moves in the wake of the Hollywood strikes, and has avoided talking about the strike because of what he called "lay people" calling striking workers "'Just a bunch of millionaires trying to get more millions.
"They discard us so quickly. Because they think we’re entitled," Porter said. "Meanwhile, we’re getting six cent [checks]. It hurts my feelings."But, Porter said, the strike has cost him to lose work, including a new upcoming television show and movie. Those cuts, he said, have forced him to sell his house.
"Because we’re on strike. And I don’t know when we’re gonna go back [to work]," Porter said. "The life of an artist, until you make f***-you money — which I haven’t made yet — is still [check-to-check].", in which an anonymous studio executive told the publication that the studios planned to continue the strike "until union members start losing their apartments and losing their houses.
Writers with WGA have been on strike since May 2. Actors with SAG-AFTRA joined in starting on July 14. Both groups have said they're fighting for improved wages, better residuals on streaming shows, and more.
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