Actor Billy Porter forced to sell his home due to Hollywood strike: ‘This is the life of an artist’ | celebrities

Due to the Hollywood strike, many actors have to make difficult financial decisions. Billy Porter knows this better than anyone now that he’s been forced to sell his house. This was revealed to the London Evening Standard newspaper. “The life of an artist, until you make the money I still don’t, is still ‘check to check,'” Bailey says.

The actor bought the home in Long Island, New York, in October 2020 with his ex-husband Adam Smith for $1.4 million (about €1.3 million). It’s 4,500 square feet, has four bedrooms and five bathrooms, and was built in 1970. It’s the first house Bailey ever bought, he told Condé Nast Traveler in 2021. Before that, he lived for years in an apartment in New York.

With Hollywood now on lockdown, two of Bailey’s upcoming projects have also been cancelled. I was supposed to be in a new movie and a new TV show starting in September. None of that happens.” “So for the person who said ‘we’re going to starve them until they have to sell their apartments,’ you really starved me.”

Both writers in Hollywood have been on strike for two months for better pay and working conditions and for more protection against the impact of artificial intelligence on their work. About a month ago, actors also joined the strike and the financial consequences were very tangible. To support the out-of-work actors, many top actors like George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Matt Damon and Nicole Kidman have contributed to an emergency fund that has now raised over $15 million. There is currently no such emergency fund for writers on strike.

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