Oscar Nominee Barkhad Abdi Is Broke

[GeoSeven]

By Joseph Kapsch
6 hours ago

Barkhad Abdi is in the running for Oscar gold Sunday, but actual wealth eludes him.

Abdi has been widely praised for his role in “Captain Phillips” as the desperate pirate Muse, and even ad-libbed the film’s signature line: “I’m the captain now.” But a New Yorker story reveals that he is now struggling to support himself.

“When Abdi is in Los Angeles to promote the film, he subsists on a per diem, good at the Beverly Hilton, where the studio likes to put him up. The town car is available only for official publicity events. His clothes are loaners,” reads the article. “Recently Abdi requested that he be allowed to stay at a commuter hotel near LAX to be closer to his friend, a Somali cabdriver from Miinneapolis, who shuttles him around for free.”

Abdi earned $65,000 for his performance in the $55 million film, but that was more than two years ago. And even with an Oscar nomination, there’s no guarantee of his future earning potential as an actor. Abdi already won a BAFTA for best supporting actor, and is now reading scripts in search of his next role.

After the Oscars, Abdi plans to move to L.A. and live with fellow “Captain Phillips” actor Faysal Ahmed.

Still, his life is better than it might have been. The 28-year-old was six when war broke out in Somalia, and rape and killing suddenly became common. His mother evacuated the family, first to be with Abdi’s father in Yemen, where he was teaching math. Eventually they settled in Minneapolis in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood, home to many Somalis.

He was working for the limo company when he saw an announcement that a film was looking for actors to play Somali pirates.

After filming “Captain Phillips,” he went to work at his brother’s mobile phone store in Minneapolis. But he decided to quit when the film premiered.

“How I thought about it was, like, When the movie came out, reviews either gonna be good or bad,” he told the New Yorker’s Dana Goodyear. “Either way, I cannot be working here.”

[Lillaahiya]

The film emerged as a box office success with earnings of over $217 million against a budget of $55 million.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Phillips_(film)

Only 65k? That's chump change. Hopefully he gets a better paying role next time

[watchmenow]

Hilary Swank
Boy's Don't Cry

Oscar win Golden Globe Win

Made - $3,000 DOLLARS

Grossed

11 Million


http://www.therichest.com/expensive-lif ... -speech/5/

http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=boysdontcry.htm

DUMB SOMALIANS


Hilary Swank IS A SEASONED ACTRESS PRIOR TO BOYS DONT CRY.

HANDICAPS

[HusseinHassan]

i think an error was made. barkhad was probably paid 650,000 and not 65,000.
still i think he got paid few million.

[AbdiJohnson]

I'm surprised he wasn't paid lower. Tom Hanks probably got more than $10 million before the movie even started production. Barkhad Abdi is a new actor and that was his first and only movie he starred in. He can't demand anything and they will take advantage of people like him. He's not box office. He has no name. All celebrities went through the same thing.

However, Barkhad has put his foot in the door. He'll go places

I am,

Abdi "I wish well for the dude" Johnson

[Basra-]

He can earn more now. Now he has a name, awards and also he has learnt a lesson of negotiations. HE will never be paid under million going forward. His stock went up.

[Warabaha]

Crazy guy, didn't even spend one Penny on beautification

[Hodan94]

WOW Hollywood is corrupt man, the movie went huge all over yet the producers ended up taking all the cash.

well at least he can pay his bills for time being.

[LobsterUnit]

65000 must have seemed like a lot of money for a broke ass farax. He should get a part time job while he is waiting to star in another film.

[GeoSeven]

Apparently, he's secured the role of a South African marathon legend in a new movie. He should manage his finances wisely and avoid pomp his wallet cannot expend.

[Typhoon]

i pry the little moryaan doesn`t win
he is the poster child for what ever is wrong with the somali male

the motherfoker is going to win am 1000 % sure I know how the liberal hollywood works, they always love rags to riches story
he gets the oscar not for his average performance but for his life narrative from the bushes to hollywood boulavard

we are still dealing with the effect of black hawk down now every somali child will be stereotyped as this skinny horse-mouth abdi barkhad...lord have mercy

[Estarix]

Barkhad Abdi wins best supporting actor.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01sd2z8

[FAH1223]

Don't they get bonuses or something with how much the film has profited?

[Marques]

Barkhad rolling with the P, call him big B

[InoCabdi]

i pry the little moryaan doesn`t win
he is the poster child for what ever is wrong with the somali male

the motherfoker is going to win am 1000 % sure I know how the liberal hollywood works, they always love rags to riches story
he gets the oscar not for his average performance but for his life narrative from the bushes to hollywood boulavard

we are still dealing with the effect of black hawk down now every somali child will be stereotyped as this skinny horse-mouth abdi barkhad...lord have mercy

very true. notthing good happened apart from a new stereotype on somalis