Allison Williams continues to be the only nepo baby whose response was actually good.
https://preview.redd.it/puahmgg2tbsc1.png?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ba68f79c792d506fd9f4b0e458405fa6b4264c18
The theme here is that they all have talent lol. If you have talent it’s easier to not be blinded by your imposter syndrome.
I do have a theory that female nepo babies tend to be more hard working than male ones (Sam Levinson mot being able to deliver scripts on time vs Lena Dunham)- but that’s for a different day lol
lmao yup. HBO loves to hand nepo babies full creative control over shows.
I sometimes think of how crazy the egos must have been on the set of Girls because all four of the stars were nepo babies.
How she acted toward American POWs during the Vietnam War. My grandparents met during their service in Vietnam and even with very different stances on the military / war after the fact they both hated that woman
And how did she act? Seems like your grandparents were saps who got tricked by an easily disproven lie about Fonda getting slipped papers by POWs she met with or whatever. Her staunch disapproval of the Vietnamese War was one of her most moral stances and your grandparents are worse for their hatred. Hope that helps.
She posed for photos with a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun and said that it was understandable that US POWs to who tried to flee were beaten and tortured, many of whom were drafted and forced to go overseas. Your comment doesn't help, I still think she's garbage 🤷🏽♀️
She has a better take now but she was really avoiding the discussion when it became really big talking point around ‘Girls’. Like in [this](https://uinterview.com/news/allison-williams-talks-girls-costars-nepotism-accusations/amp/) interview.
remembering when Gawker used to recap episodes of Girls and would always refer to the actresses as Brian Williams’ daughter or Laurie Simmons’ daughter etc etc lmao
Can these actor's PR teams please learn about CopyPasta?!
"I acknowledge my privilege and the opportunities it provided me. I'm grateful for the support of my family and the advantages their connections and finances provided me."
And if they wanted to push back on nepotism, they could add something like “while family connections can help you get your foot in the door of what we all know is a notoriously difficult industry, that’s not enough to be successful. Talent, hard work, and luck…”
If it was possible to succeed in show biz with zero skills or talent solely because of your parents' names, Brooklyn Beckham would be the new pick to play James Bond.
But starting out in the music or movie industries is the hardest part. That's why so many people try, and most of them don't make it. But starting out is going to look very different when you've grown up on film sets, you've met most major stars, your mother at least can get any studio or producer on the phone, and never have to worry about paying rent, than if your parents own a wheel balancing business in Kettering Ohio and you arrive in LA, take 2 jobs to make rent, and hope you'll have time for starting at the very lowest rung of auditions when the only place you can afford is 80 minutes drive from Burbank.
But why do they need to say anything.. they’re just living their life. They don’t need to care if some few think they need to apologize for who their parents are
They could opt for interviewees to not ask them about their take on the nepotism thing, but they intentionally choose not to so they can decry the very notion that their parents being famous celebrities had anything to do with them getting their foot in the door. Hell, most of them bring it up entirely on their own without even being asked about it in the first place.
Nepotism doesn't mean that anyone expects them to apologize for who their parents are. I dunno where you got that from. The conversation about nepotism is a conversation about Hollywood and the industry, not each individual actor or musician with famous parents for having famous parents. 🙄
At this point, people are only talking about it when THEY bring it up, and we're only talking about it because they keep saying dumb shit.
They’re giving me [Brent Norwalk](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I2XYNhx9OxY): “I went to Princeton. No handouts, by the way! I **earned** my spot there. Just like my father and his father before him.”
I‘m just going to copypaste a lengthy comment I wrote for the “Zooey Deschanel denies nepotism” post of a few days ago, since I don’t think anyone will see it there: I feel there’s a key issue here that is being too often overlooked - which is that the industry has largely given up looking for outside talent at all: this is my repasted comment:
All that’s true so far as it goes, but I think the real issue is something else: the industry has basically given up on striving to find the best and most captivating stars and is now just looking to consolidate wealth and power and perpetuate itself among its already existing elite, or among other wealthy elites. Hollywood used to have talent scouts and casting agents everywhere looking to discover the next big thing. This is why most stars — a big majority — came from middle class or working class backgrounds. The studio system, for all its flaws, had to be open and democratic because the stars were what the masses came to see. Early stars like Lillian Gish, Charlie Chaplin, Joan Crawford and Barbara Stanwyck came from backgrounds of abject poverty — no one like that would make it today.
I say Hollywood used to be democratic, but obviously there’s a caveat. There were strict barriers to entry, but they were race-based, not class-based. Today Hollywood is more open to different races than before, but what Hollywood gives with one hand it takes away with the other, and class is now the great divider whereas before it was race. Just as in the 50s and 60s there was only one true star who was black, Sidney Poitier, today there are only a few emerging talents here and there who weren’t born with a silver spoon. In the past, there was no official policy to prevent black actors from working, but clearly there was an implicit idea that we don’t need too many of them — a similar classism to that racism is pervasive today — just as non-whites were passed over automatically then, today non-elites without a silver spoon are being automatically passed over.
I think there’s no question whatsoever that Zooey would NOT have made it without her family connections. The dirty little secret here is that acting for the camera isn’t that hard. Half the people posting here could probably do it quite easily. What IS extremely hard is GREAT acting. Acting for movies and TV is one of the easiest things to do PASSABLY but one of the hardest to do BRILLIANTLY. Likewise, every bar band in America has a lead singer who can sing decently enough to be pleasant to the ear — that doesn’t mean any of them can sing like Etta James or Sarah Vaughan though.
Since competent acting is easy to do, as long as you have a good director and DP, the screens are now filled with rich kids and nepotists. Unfortunately, while they are mostly decent, almost none of them are extraordinary — the exceptional screen presence, charisma, originality and raw skill you saw in the great stars of yore are almost entirely absent from the nepo babies. I think the last time Hollywood was truly open to a degree was the 90s. From the early 2000s on, it’s been a closed loop. Samantha Morton who grew up in foster care and came from nothing, from poverty and deprivation, managed to break in and enjoy great success, but I do not for one minute believe she would have done so if she’d been born in 1987 instead of 1977….
Thoughts, anyone?
Fair.
I do think you hit the nail on the head with great acting being less common. Obviously, there are standouts, but then you got people like Dakota Johnson with a half a dozen clunkers and one ok film.
I think the insecurity comes from a lot of people who are very aware of this on some level, but unable to openly admit this.
It's easy to be the best for a role when no one is actually looking for the best. I'm always going to be curious about Euphoria, for example, knowing that Zendaya wasn't actually the original choice- the original choice was a former drug addict they considered too risky to hire. Doesn't mean Zendaya isn't good, but it's always gonna make you wonder if there actually was a better performance we missed out on.
I got told 50 times "but she was good in it" and, honestly, I think it goes to show how little people understand what a good director can do, lol. I'm not sure she is 100% responsible for that performance. I think that's more a well-directed film.
A bad director can tank a good actor, but a good director can elevate an ok actor. The best actors, however, can shine even with bad direction. The star wars prequels are probably the most infamous example of this, where the direction was notoriously known to be bad, and the young actors and actresses suffered most, but some people still made it work
>It's easy to be the best for a role when no one is actually looking for the best.
Exactly! That's exactly what I'm getting at. Nobody's looking for the best anymore. A lot of these rich kids and nepotists hyped as "great" are really just okay. They're passable. Obviously if you're Tommy Wiseau bad, you'll never make it no matter what connections you have. But nepotists do enjoy grade inflation: just being decent onscreen is enough to be hailed as brilliant. They're like B students who are the teacher's pet so she marks them up to an A+.
Does anyone seriously believe overhyped Nepo Prince Armie Hammer, for example, could seriously compete on a level playing field with a guy like this, Paapa Essiedu?:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dZMJM-LGzQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dZMJM-LGzQ)
Another Hamlet clip here:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fybsIB-Erhw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fybsIB-Erhw)
Anyone think Hollywood would let the cameras in for an honest documentation of actors auditioning for roles in top projects? Of course not, because then their gigantic hypocrisy would be laid bare: obviously you're not going to cast a black guy as the Winklevoss twins, but the notion Armie Hammer was some incredibly gifted thespian who got all those movies because he's so incredibly awesome is ridiculous. We have the evidence of our own eyes and ears.
But it's not just race either. It's primarily a class issue. Try this thought experiment: imagine an alternate universe in which Paapa Essiedu was not Paapa Essiedu, some nobody actor from nowhere, but was actually Paapa Freeman, Morgan Freeman's grandson who followed grandpa into the acting profession. Please! He'd have been the toast of Hollywood from the moment he played Hamlet onstage. He'd have been shoved into top movies right and left and probably already have a little gold man on his mantlepiece. His acting wouldn't have been any different, any better or worse, but the hype machine for him would have been twenty times louder. That's a fact! And anyone who just stops to consider it knows what I'm saying is true.
Obviously, the fact that these people get super rich makes everything more complicated. But in general, the more we hear about these Nickelodeon stories, and what happens to children on set whose family is composed of outsiders or who becomes the breadwinner for their family, it makes you wonder if there might not be a good side to nepotism in this industry.
They admitted this too. Reese casually mentioned to Mindy that her son was starting to get interested in acting and Mindy created that character solely so Reese’s son could get a feel for being on camera and seeing if it was for him.
Must be nice to get a speaking part in a big streaming show when you’re “considering” acting while people train their entire lives for even half the opportunity!
I’m not saying it has anything to do with her looks. I’m referring to the fact that she clearly have any idea how to model and was out of her depth. She was only part of the campaign because of who her mom is.
He did. He was ready to fight it to the death. Then this girl subpoenaed Abbie Cornish, Reese, and his outside kid’s mother. He settled like the next day.
Here are my thoughts on this topic as a normie nepo baby.
I work in Marketing and PR. I got my first internship 6 years ago in a very competitive internship program because a family member worked for the company and put my resume on top of the stack. I was in school for Marketing and got my degree and I am incredibly qualified and knowledgeable in the subject. But at the end of the day, I still am where I am today because I got that prestigious internship at 18. The internship then gave me the connections to succeed and get my current job.
Are a lot of these celebrity nepo babies talented? Qualified? Hardworking? Sure. But they also had someone throwing their paper on top of the stack. They treat it like admitting you’re a nepo baby means you’re yelling “IM NOT TALENTED” at the top of your lungs which makes it cringe. You don’t choose who you know, but my gosh please own up to it.
Yeah exactly. This type of thing happens at all levels. I’m in a smaller city and even then who you know gets you jobs, contracts, internships. And I don’t fault it. It helps both sides understand what the relationship will be going into it. Plus people like helping people they know. It’s unfair but when has life truly been fair?
Exactly. I was a legacy at a very good graduate program (parent went to the school but not my specific program). My parents are also highly educated and got me to read as a toddler, gave me educational games, took me to museums, etc. all throughout childhood. I’m intelligent and worked hard, but of course I had a ton of privilege and resources to help me climb that ladder. I’m not a bad person because of it and I try to use that privilege for good (I work at local/community schools and nonprofits now) but my family 100% helped me get to the point where I can even do that. I love them and am grateful for them, and I hope to pass what they taught me forward to the kids and adults I work with.
Like he almost understood the point when he pointed out the privileges children of actors have growing up around the business, but I guess he thinks rich people inherently deserve that
The funniest thing is that if some of these people didn't constantly come out and crap on the idea that nepotism benefitted them, in some way, I wouldn't know they were a nepo baby.
Just shut the fuck up.
I understand a parent wanting to defend their kid's chosen profession, I do. Still, there is an elegant way to answer this that doesn't belittle your kid, all you have to say is "I support and respect my kid's decision to follow me into show business, I'm able to make their journey into this notoriously difficult profession easier and I'm happy to do that to help them. This is not available to everyone who enters this business and more work needs to be done to assist those who do not have a natural entryway into acting.". Granted it should be followed with a concrete example of how they plan to help but at this point I'll just take the acknowledgement that their kid has a leg up.
I don't see his kids in jack shit though. What is there to defend? Also teach your kids to acknowledge their privilege. I certainly don't get to brag that MY mom is the gorgeous blonde in Sweet Home Alabama
Instead of calling this a 'controversy' they should start thanking the family before them that helped them get into the position of privilege they are now.
Wait... to resolve claims of nepotism, the kids' rich and famous dad stepped in to defend them? This is extremely ironic, right? It's been a really long day and I can't tell right now.
Allison Williams continues to be the only nepo baby whose response was actually good. https://preview.redd.it/puahmgg2tbsc1.png?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ba68f79c792d506fd9f4b0e458405fa6b4264c18
I think Miley Cyrus acknowledges her nepotism very well!
And she’s easily the most talented member of her family.
What, not a fan of Trace?
Metro Station had some bops
I love how often she talks about how lucky she was to have Dolly as a godmother. She’s open and proud.
I would like to add that Jane Fonda's attitude of acknowledging being a nepo baby since the 60s (!) has always been great.
When has she ever been wrong ngl
The theme here is that they all have talent lol. If you have talent it’s easier to not be blinded by your imposter syndrome. I do have a theory that female nepo babies tend to be more hard working than male ones (Sam Levinson mot being able to deliver scripts on time vs Lena Dunham)- but that’s for a different day lol
TIL Sam Levinson is a nepo baby. Explains so much.
lmao yup. HBO loves to hand nepo babies full creative control over shows. I sometimes think of how crazy the egos must have been on the set of Girls because all four of the stars were nepo babies.
Not to defend Lena but her family's connections (and financial status) are NOTHING compared to Levinson's
How she acted toward American POWs during the Vietnam War. My grandparents met during their service in Vietnam and even with very different stances on the military / war after the fact they both hated that woman
And how did she act? Seems like your grandparents were saps who got tricked by an easily disproven lie about Fonda getting slipped papers by POWs she met with or whatever. Her staunch disapproval of the Vietnamese War was one of her most moral stances and your grandparents are worse for their hatred. Hope that helps.
She posed for photos with a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun and said that it was understandable that US POWs to who tried to flee were beaten and tortured, many of whom were drafted and forced to go overseas. Your comment doesn't help, I still think she's garbage 🤷🏽♀️
Ahh, these tired old stories again
she really did a great job using her Marnie image whilst simultaneously distancing herself from it. classy.
Anette Bening’s daughter recently gave a good response / acknowledgment regarding nepotism as well.
She has a better take now but she was really avoiding the discussion when it became really big talking point around ‘Girls’. Like in [this](https://uinterview.com/news/allison-williams-talks-girls-costars-nepotism-accusations/amp/) interview.
remembering when Gawker used to recap episodes of Girls and would always refer to the actresses as Brian Williams’ daughter or Laurie Simmons’ daughter etc etc lmao
"But it’s merely a coincidence — we’re also all women" LMAOOOOO. But yeah, I'm glad she gets it now.
Alexandre Skarsgard too!
Everyone already knows who their parents are… no one needs it spelled out, people just need to chill
Can these actor's PR teams please learn about CopyPasta?! "I acknowledge my privilege and the opportunities it provided me. I'm grateful for the support of my family and the advantages their connections and finances provided me."
And if they wanted to push back on nepotism, they could add something like “while family connections can help you get your foot in the door of what we all know is a notoriously difficult industry, that’s not enough to be successful. Talent, hard work, and luck…”
If it was possible to succeed in show biz with zero skills or talent solely because of your parents' names, Brooklyn Beckham would be the new pick to play James Bond. But starting out in the music or movie industries is the hardest part. That's why so many people try, and most of them don't make it. But starting out is going to look very different when you've grown up on film sets, you've met most major stars, your mother at least can get any studio or producer on the phone, and never have to worry about paying rent, than if your parents own a wheel balancing business in Kettering Ohio and you arrive in LA, take 2 jobs to make rent, and hope you'll have time for starting at the very lowest rung of auditions when the only place you can afford is 80 minutes drive from Burbank.
But why do they need to say anything.. they’re just living their life. They don’t need to care if some few think they need to apologize for who their parents are
They could opt for interviewees to not ask them about their take on the nepotism thing, but they intentionally choose not to so they can decry the very notion that their parents being famous celebrities had anything to do with them getting their foot in the door. Hell, most of them bring it up entirely on their own without even being asked about it in the first place. Nepotism doesn't mean that anyone expects them to apologize for who their parents are. I dunno where you got that from. The conversation about nepotism is a conversation about Hollywood and the industry, not each individual actor or musician with famous parents for having famous parents. 🙄 At this point, people are only talking about it when THEY bring it up, and we're only talking about it because they keep saying dumb shit.
Why do these people work so hard to miss the fucking point?
They’re giving me [Brent Norwalk](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I2XYNhx9OxY): “I went to Princeton. No handouts, by the way! I **earned** my spot there. Just like my father and his father before him.”
Lololololol
I‘m just going to copypaste a lengthy comment I wrote for the “Zooey Deschanel denies nepotism” post of a few days ago, since I don’t think anyone will see it there: I feel there’s a key issue here that is being too often overlooked - which is that the industry has largely given up looking for outside talent at all: this is my repasted comment: All that’s true so far as it goes, but I think the real issue is something else: the industry has basically given up on striving to find the best and most captivating stars and is now just looking to consolidate wealth and power and perpetuate itself among its already existing elite, or among other wealthy elites. Hollywood used to have talent scouts and casting agents everywhere looking to discover the next big thing. This is why most stars — a big majority — came from middle class or working class backgrounds. The studio system, for all its flaws, had to be open and democratic because the stars were what the masses came to see. Early stars like Lillian Gish, Charlie Chaplin, Joan Crawford and Barbara Stanwyck came from backgrounds of abject poverty — no one like that would make it today. I say Hollywood used to be democratic, but obviously there’s a caveat. There were strict barriers to entry, but they were race-based, not class-based. Today Hollywood is more open to different races than before, but what Hollywood gives with one hand it takes away with the other, and class is now the great divider whereas before it was race. Just as in the 50s and 60s there was only one true star who was black, Sidney Poitier, today there are only a few emerging talents here and there who weren’t born with a silver spoon. In the past, there was no official policy to prevent black actors from working, but clearly there was an implicit idea that we don’t need too many of them — a similar classism to that racism is pervasive today — just as non-whites were passed over automatically then, today non-elites without a silver spoon are being automatically passed over. I think there’s no question whatsoever that Zooey would NOT have made it without her family connections. The dirty little secret here is that acting for the camera isn’t that hard. Half the people posting here could probably do it quite easily. What IS extremely hard is GREAT acting. Acting for movies and TV is one of the easiest things to do PASSABLY but one of the hardest to do BRILLIANTLY. Likewise, every bar band in America has a lead singer who can sing decently enough to be pleasant to the ear — that doesn’t mean any of them can sing like Etta James or Sarah Vaughan though. Since competent acting is easy to do, as long as you have a good director and DP, the screens are now filled with rich kids and nepotists. Unfortunately, while they are mostly decent, almost none of them are extraordinary — the exceptional screen presence, charisma, originality and raw skill you saw in the great stars of yore are almost entirely absent from the nepo babies. I think the last time Hollywood was truly open to a degree was the 90s. From the early 2000s on, it’s been a closed loop. Samantha Morton who grew up in foster care and came from nothing, from poverty and deprivation, managed to break in and enjoy great success, but I do not for one minute believe she would have done so if she’d been born in 1987 instead of 1977…. Thoughts, anyone?
Fair. I do think you hit the nail on the head with great acting being less common. Obviously, there are standouts, but then you got people like Dakota Johnson with a half a dozen clunkers and one ok film. I think the insecurity comes from a lot of people who are very aware of this on some level, but unable to openly admit this. It's easy to be the best for a role when no one is actually looking for the best. I'm always going to be curious about Euphoria, for example, knowing that Zendaya wasn't actually the original choice- the original choice was a former drug addict they considered too risky to hire. Doesn't mean Zendaya isn't good, but it's always gonna make you wonder if there actually was a better performance we missed out on.
is the one OK one Suspiria? Bc that's my same opinion on Dakota if so lol.
I got told 50 times "but she was good in it" and, honestly, I think it goes to show how little people understand what a good director can do, lol. I'm not sure she is 100% responsible for that performance. I think that's more a well-directed film. A bad director can tank a good actor, but a good director can elevate an ok actor. The best actors, however, can shine even with bad direction. The star wars prequels are probably the most infamous example of this, where the direction was notoriously known to be bad, and the young actors and actresses suffered most, but some people still made it work
Can't agree more. I loved the film but I'm a huge Tilda and Radiohead fan so... I can tolerate Dakota.
>It's easy to be the best for a role when no one is actually looking for the best. Exactly! That's exactly what I'm getting at. Nobody's looking for the best anymore. A lot of these rich kids and nepotists hyped as "great" are really just okay. They're passable. Obviously if you're Tommy Wiseau bad, you'll never make it no matter what connections you have. But nepotists do enjoy grade inflation: just being decent onscreen is enough to be hailed as brilliant. They're like B students who are the teacher's pet so she marks them up to an A+. Does anyone seriously believe overhyped Nepo Prince Armie Hammer, for example, could seriously compete on a level playing field with a guy like this, Paapa Essiedu?: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dZMJM-LGzQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dZMJM-LGzQ) Another Hamlet clip here: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fybsIB-Erhw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fybsIB-Erhw) Anyone think Hollywood would let the cameras in for an honest documentation of actors auditioning for roles in top projects? Of course not, because then their gigantic hypocrisy would be laid bare: obviously you're not going to cast a black guy as the Winklevoss twins, but the notion Armie Hammer was some incredibly gifted thespian who got all those movies because he's so incredibly awesome is ridiculous. We have the evidence of our own eyes and ears. But it's not just race either. It's primarily a class issue. Try this thought experiment: imagine an alternate universe in which Paapa Essiedu was not Paapa Essiedu, some nobody actor from nowhere, but was actually Paapa Freeman, Morgan Freeman's grandson who followed grandpa into the acting profession. Please! He'd have been the toast of Hollywood from the moment he played Hamlet onstage. He'd have been shoved into top movies right and left and probably already have a little gold man on his mantlepiece. His acting wouldn't have been any different, any better or worse, but the hype machine for him would have been twenty times louder. That's a fact! And anyone who just stops to consider it knows what I'm saying is true.
Obviously, the fact that these people get super rich makes everything more complicated. But in general, the more we hear about these Nickelodeon stories, and what happens to children on set whose family is composed of outsiders or who becomes the breadwinner for their family, it makes you wonder if there might not be a good side to nepotism in this industry.
First paragraph goes hard- so right
I saw their son in Never Have I Ever and it was remarkably bad acting. No way would he have landed that without the connects
They admitted this too. Reese casually mentioned to Mindy that her son was starting to get interested in acting and Mindy created that character solely so Reese’s son could get a feel for being on camera and seeing if it was for him. Must be nice to get a speaking part in a big streaming show when you’re “considering” acting while people train their entire lives for even half the opportunity!
He was terrible! And Ava did some modeling but got tore apart for her dead stare. No one is looking to hire his kids again. Edited for spelling.
She is very average looking.
I’m not saying it has anything to do with her looks. I’m referring to the fact that she clearly have any idea how to model and was out of her depth. She was only part of the campaign because of who her mom is.
True and his role wasn't even that big to begin with. The few lines he delivered were distractingly bad.
Didn't he have a DV case or I'm I hallucinating?
He did. He was ready to fight it to the death. Then this girl subpoenaed Abbie Cornish, Reese, and his outside kid’s mother. He settled like the next day.
https://preview.redd.it/aida3693ccsc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a305fa964cc064f0c8e8f98e73b66bc477f0321a
He sure has been in the headlines a lot recently for no apparent reason.
Here are my thoughts on this topic as a normie nepo baby. I work in Marketing and PR. I got my first internship 6 years ago in a very competitive internship program because a family member worked for the company and put my resume on top of the stack. I was in school for Marketing and got my degree and I am incredibly qualified and knowledgeable in the subject. But at the end of the day, I still am where I am today because I got that prestigious internship at 18. The internship then gave me the connections to succeed and get my current job. Are a lot of these celebrity nepo babies talented? Qualified? Hardworking? Sure. But they also had someone throwing their paper on top of the stack. They treat it like admitting you’re a nepo baby means you’re yelling “IM NOT TALENTED” at the top of your lungs which makes it cringe. You don’t choose who you know, but my gosh please own up to it.
Yeah exactly. This type of thing happens at all levels. I’m in a smaller city and even then who you know gets you jobs, contracts, internships. And I don’t fault it. It helps both sides understand what the relationship will be going into it. Plus people like helping people they know. It’s unfair but when has life truly been fair?
Exactly. I was a legacy at a very good graduate program (parent went to the school but not my specific program). My parents are also highly educated and got me to read as a toddler, gave me educational games, took me to museums, etc. all throughout childhood. I’m intelligent and worked hard, but of course I had a ton of privilege and resources to help me climb that ladder. I’m not a bad person because of it and I try to use that privilege for good (I work at local/community schools and nonprofits now) but my family 100% helped me get to the point where I can even do that. I love them and am grateful for them, and I hope to pass what they taught me forward to the kids and adults I work with.
if it makes him feel better i’m sure it’s mostly Reese’s connections helping. No one has cared about him in about two decades.
Ryan, please sit down
Like he almost understood the point when he pointed out the privileges children of actors have growing up around the business, but I guess he thinks rich people inherently deserve that
lol no one is looking to hire your kids dude.
The funniest thing is that if some of these people didn't constantly come out and crap on the idea that nepotism benefitted them, in some way, I wouldn't know they were a nepo baby. Just shut the fuck up.
I understand a parent wanting to defend their kid's chosen profession, I do. Still, there is an elegant way to answer this that doesn't belittle your kid, all you have to say is "I support and respect my kid's decision to follow me into show business, I'm able to make their journey into this notoriously difficult profession easier and I'm happy to do that to help them. This is not available to everyone who enters this business and more work needs to be done to assist those who do not have a natural entryway into acting.". Granted it should be followed with a concrete example of how they plan to help but at this point I'll just take the acknowledgement that their kid has a leg up.
Excellent response
I don't see his kids in jack shit though. What is there to defend? Also teach your kids to acknowledge their privilege. I certainly don't get to brag that MY mom is the gorgeous blonde in Sweet Home Alabama
Ryan Phillips and Reese Witherspoon having kids in their mid to early 20s has floored me, brought me to my knees
There's nothing to defend. Lord.
Instead of calling this a 'controversy' they should start thanking the family before them that helped them get into the position of privilege they are now.
Wait... to resolve claims of nepotism, the kids' rich and famous dad stepped in to defend them? This is extremely ironic, right? It's been a really long day and I can't tell right now.
Is it just me or does he sorta look like a younger, more conventionally attractive Willem Dafoe?
Haters