- Billy Porter said that he has to sell his house because he can't work amid the Hollywood strikes.
- Porter also revealed that he lives paycheck to paycheck.
Emmy-winning actor Billy Porter said he has to sell his house because of the ongoing Hollywood strikes and he is giving a resounding "fuck you" to Disney CEO Bob Iger as a result.
Porter, well known for his role on FX's "Pose," told the Evening Standard that he is putting his house up for sale.
"Because we're on strike. And I don't know when we're gonna go back," Porter told the Evening Standard. "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."
Porter also referenced a July report in Deadline, where an anonymous studio executive told the publication that studios' "endgame" would be to let the strikes drag on until "union members start losing their apartments and losing their houses."
"So to the person who said 'we're going to starve them out until they have to sell their apartments': you've already starved me out," Porter said.
The Writer's Guild of America has been on strike since May, and the Screen Actors Guild has been on strike since July with no end in sight. Both Hollywood unions are demanding better wages in the age of streaming and protections against AI, and they are attempting to reach a contract agreement with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers.
NBC News reported that as the strikes continue, Hollywood writers and actors are becoming financially strained.
Porter also called out Iger in the interview. Iger drew criticism and scrutiny after telling CNBC that the actor's strike is "very disturbing" and said that the strikers' expectations are "not realistic."
"To hear Bob Iger say that our demands for a living wage are unrealistic? While he makes $78,000 a day?" Porter told the Evening Standard. "I don't have any words for it, but: fuck you."
Representatives for Porter and Iger did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.