Oscar Winner Dianne Wiest: I'm Struggling to Pay My Rent

[big dog cowboy]

Oscar Winner Dianne Wiest: I'm Struggling to Pay My Rent
Ryan Gajewski
The Hollywood Reporter

© Walter McBride/Getty Images Dianne Wiest attending a photo call for the New Group production of 'Rasheeda Speaking' at the New 42nd studios on January 14, 2015 in New York City.


Despite bringing new opportunities in the short-term, the sheen of an Oscar victory can sometimes only go so far. Just ask two-time winner Dianne Wiest.

The 66-year-old actress, who begins previews Tuesday for off-Broadway production Rasheeda Speaking, told the New York Times she is facing money issues due to a lack of high-paying work.

"I have to move out of my apartment soon," Wiest said of her struggle to cover her rent.

She earned Oscars for best supporting actress for 1986's Hannah and Her Sisters and 1994's Bullets Over Broadway, both directed by Woody Allen. But after that, she found she was only getting offered roles to play "a nice mom, and that's it. That's all that ever came, except in theater."

Read more: http://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/new...wiest-im-struggling-to-pay-my-rent/ar-AA8zGfN.

 

[JohnnyTheFox]

How much is the rent in her Apt? Maybe downsizing to something cheaper would be appropriate.

 

[Aikmaniac]

That's what happens when you make the Blacklist.

 

[Sasquatch]

I saw that story and was wondering if she is really destitute or living in a hellaciously expensive apartment that is no longer appropriate to her earnings.

 

[BigStar]

Leaving Manhattan may help...

"No amount of therapy has been able to fix “In Treatment” actress Dianne Wiest’s apartment troubles.
The stage and screen star — who most recently played a psychologist in the HBO series — claims her longtime Upper West Side landlord has been illegally charging her market rate for her West 78th Street pad for decades — currently $7,290 per month.
"She claims in a lawsuit that the landlord was getting a tax break from the city, which meant it had to follow rent-stabilization rules and not charge market rents."
Wiest is part of a tenant group suing the owners of 229 West 78th Street to lower their rent and to recoup the money they claim West 79th LLC was illegally charging.
The 13-story, 100-unit building was getting a J-51 tax abatement from the city from 1993 to 2004. Yet the landlord told tenants their apartments could be deregulated anyway, the suit alleges."

The kick? This was pulled from a 2011 article associated with Weist and the same problems? Girl doesn't want to let go http://nypost.com/2011/04/24/tv-shrink-im-rentally-challenged/
alright , enough TMZ for the day.

 

[speedkilz88]

With all the movies she's done she should be well off if she invested/kept it. Probably just venting over that rent situation.

 

[MichaelWinicki]

Yeah, the folks that point out the "living in Manhattan" thing have a point.

But the crux of the issue is right here, in the article itself:

"Wiest, who was the focus of one of the vignettes in 2007's David Wain-directed comedy The Ten, added that she doesn't plan to try writing her own roles. "I think that if it's meant to happen, it will happen,” she said. “Which is I guess a real sign of stupidity."

That's it right there.

She's like 99% of the folks out there that leave their career or future to fate and don't grab the bull by the horns to help insure they're headed in the right direction.

To simply take what life gives you... Well, you get what you get.

 

[Seven]

Seven grand!?!

A month!?!

What else does it do?

 

[CyberB0b]

Seven grand!?!

A month!?!

What else does it do?

No kidding. I could buy a mansion here in Texas for that much.

 

[BoysFan4ever]

I'm sure she has a ton of very wealthy friends willing to help her out.

 

[LittleBoyBlue]

Seven grand!?!

A month!?!

What else does it do?

What could she own after 5 years of rent +utilities +other expenses?

That's close to a half million dollars pissed away.

 

[Idgit]

Seven grand!?!

A month!?!

What else does it do?

We've got modest 2 bedroom apartments on the rail line outside the city going for $3,500 here in the SF Bay Area. ~$8k is probably a nice, but not ridiculous place for Manhattan, I would assume. Still, it's surprising she can't make ends meet as accomplished as she is in her field.

 

[MichaelWinicki]

We've got modest 2 bedroom apartments on the rail line outside the city going for $3,500 here in the SF Bay Area. ~$8k is probably a nice, but not ridiculous place for Manhattan, I would assume. Still, it's surprising she can't make ends meet as accomplished as she is in her field.

It's because she isn't marketing herself.

She has the same attitude that many (many as in many representing all sorts of income levels and lifestyles) do, and that's the "fame will find me" mindset.

She won two Oscars and thought just because she built a better mouse-trap that the world would beat down her door– and it's as much a cold, hard slap in the face for a two-time Oscar winner as it is for the 30 year old guy who just wrote his first novel, thinks it's great and is waiting for a publisher to call.

 

[BoysFan4ever]

Just move to a cheaper place!

 

[big dog cowboy]

Just move to a cheaper place!

What a novel concept.

 

[jrumann59]

I'm sure she has a ton of very wealthy friends willing to help her out.

Many of her friends in in F...SAG are for wealth re-distribution I am sure they will help.....

 

[Future]

We've got modest 2 bedroom apartments on the rail line outside the city going for $3,500 here in the SF Bay Area. ~$8k is probably a nice, but not ridiculous place for Manhattan, I would assume. Still, it's surprising she can't make ends meet as accomplished as she is in her field.

She's spending $85k a year on RENT! I don't think "ends meat" is exactly what she's struggling with lol

As mentioned above, it's silly to not be investing that in owning a property. Renting for that much is just silly unless you've got the money to just throw away as a luxury.

Besides, you can find a decent place in Manhattan for half that. No sympathy here.

 

[StarBoyz83]

most single people struggle to pay their rent unless they make $24 plus and hour. But that would be really bad at that age.

 

[jimmy40]

she could move back to Santa Carla.

 

[jrumann59]

most single people struggle to pay their rent unless they make $24 plus and hour. But that would be really bad at that age.

Not in NYC. Unless you live in neighborhood that requires dead bolts and locks fromt he top to the bottom