When Abdi is in Los Angeles to promote the film, he subsists on a per diem...The town car is available only for official publicity events. His clothes are loaners. 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 Minneapolis, who shuttles him around for free. - New Yorker journalist Dana Goodyear exposes the treatment of BAFTA-winning and Oscar-nominated Somali actor Barkhad Abdi, who was paid below the industry minimum at $65 000 for the $55 million Captain Phillips movie.
Posted on: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 07:05:42 +0000