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The Cosby Present actor Geoffrey Owens spoke candidly about his struggles to search out work as an actor in a current radio interview.
Six years after he was noticed working at a Dealer Joe’s grocery retailer in New Jersey, actor Geoffrey Owens sat down for an interview to share extra about his difficulties as a “middle-class actor”. Owens was a visitor on “The Massive Tigger Morning Present”, aired on the V-103 radio station in Atlanta, Georgia. The Cosby Present alum revealed that after the photographs of him working on the retailer taken by a consumer have been revealed, he left his place.
“I give up Dealer Joe’s truly earlier than the information hit,” Owens mentioned. “It was unusual as a result of somebody had been within the retailer taking footage. … And I used to be like, effectively now that that is breaking, I’m not going to really feel snug working on this retailer questioning who’s round with a digital camera. It’s gonna be simply too bizarre. I’m a really personal particular person.” The photographs, revealed by the tabloid Each day Mail and by Fox Information, have been considered “job shaming” by observers.
However Owens would additionally obtain heavy help from celebrities, together with director Tyler Perry, who supplied him a task in his OWN drama collection The Have and The Have Nots. Massive Tigger talked about that his residual checks from The Cosby Present should’ve been good, to which the actor replied they weren’t, provided that his function as Elvin Tibideux meant that “I did perhaps 20% of the present.”
“Folks have a false you impression of what the typical, what I name middle-class actor makes and their skill to make a dwelling within the business,” the 63-year-old continued. “In order that’s what drove me to work at Dealer Joe’s to start with. Truthfully, I’m not significantly better off now than I used to be then.” Owens has appeared on the CBS sitcom Poppa’s Home and is at the moment selling the vacation film Mr. Santa: A Christmas Extravaganza, which he stars in with comic Tommy Davidson.
The actor additionally shared how he was gifted $25,000 by rapper Nicki Minaj, which he wound up donating to the Leisure Group Fund (previously the Actors Fund) in honor of the late actor Earle Hyman, who performed Russell Huxtable, Invoice Cosby’s father on the NBC sitcom. When his revelation was met with shock, he replied that
“on the time, it appeared like the best factor to do.”
Watch the interview above.
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