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Monday, 3 March 2014

Captain Phillips’ Oscar Nominee Barkhad Abdi Is Broke

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If you watched the movie Captain Philps, you would be enthralled by his performance especially his opening scene with Tom Hanks where he formed the classic line "Look at me,I'm the captain now"..But sadly,Barkhad Abdi who lost the best supporting actor Oscar is broke..Read report by the Newyorker

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 Minneapolis, 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.

17 comments:

  1. Why didn't he invest the 65k dolls he was paid?

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  2. CHINEKE..TRUTH BE TOLD, IT WILL BE HARD FOR HIM TO GET ANOTHER ROLE UNLESS A PIRATE OR BOKO HARAM MEMBER.HE NEEDS TO CLEAN HIS TEETH TOO .GOODLUCK

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    1. Lolz!pirate or bokoharam!Hiannn

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    2. hahahahh Boko Hram you are wicked

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    3. You are so direct and funny. He needs to actually create a niche for himself in similar roles.

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  3. BEST MOVIE EVER!!....

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  4. Why did'nt he shine instead of dat man kalled lupita

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    1. 'That man called lupita' helloooo if u don't know the nyongo's don't bother to feel like u do..lupita is girl and not a man darrrrr

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  6. Its his PR. They failed to market and hype him like lupita

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    1. That's if he even has one.He looks really haggard.I pray they give him some money for making their movie so famous

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  7. I dey pity for the dude though.....
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    ***CURRENTLY IN JUPITER***

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  8. "I'll call you Irish"....awesome movie



    *currently in your room*

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  9. His face nd teeth! *no comment*

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  10. Endtime phillips

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  11. He kinda looks like the black version of ronaldhino

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  12. he looks like a starved ostrich

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