Dakota Johnson is currently promoting Madame Web. There’s been at least one photocall and premiere, although I expect that we’ll get some bigger premieres in the coming days. Dakota recently hosted Saturday Night Live and one of her most successful bits was appearing in a Please Don’t Destroy video where she roasted the three comedians.
The “nepo truce” thing caught on because, oh right, Dakota is absolutely a nepo baby. She’s a second-generation nepo baby! Her grandmother is Tippi Hendron, her mom is Melanie Griffith and her dad is Don Johnson. Her stepfather, for years, was Antonio Banderas too. Dakota is super-close to her mom, dad, grandmother and even her former stepfather. Which sort of gives her some blind spots to her own nepotism. Dakota appeared on the Today Show this week and she was asked about the Please Don’t Destroy video and nepo babies in general. Dakota shared her own story… of being cut off financially when she decided to become an actress.
Dakota Johnson is not a fan of the “nepo baby” conversation. Johnson, 34, said that she finds conversations surrounding celebrities whose parents are also celebrities or otherwise influential in the entertainment industry “incredibly annoying and boring” during an appearance on the Today show Wednesday.
“Like, if you’re a journalist, write about something else,” she told host Hoda Kotb, who asked Johnson — whose parents are actors Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson — about poking fun at her own celebrity status.
“That’s just like, lame. So the opportunity to make fun of it, I jumped at,” she added.
Johnson and her father Don, 74, have been open about his decision to cut her off financially when she decided to pursue acting rather than attend college after she graduated high school. “He said, ‘If you go to college, you’ll still get an allowance,’ ” she recalled on the Today show Wednesday. “And I was like, ‘Well, I’m going to be an actress.’ So he was like, ‘Alright, well you’re on your own.’ ”
Johnson secured her first acting role as an adult in 2010’s The Social Network and has seen significant success since, most notably for her starring role in 2015’s Fifty Shades of Grey and its two sequels.
“I did some little modeling jobs that helped me pay my rent. And then I started auditioning and got some jobs,” she told Kotb of how she survived after her father took her off “the payroll,” as she says he refers to the family’s finances. “I definitely had moments where I couldn’t afford groceries and had to ask my mom to help me. She was the nice one.”
I’m sure in Dakota’s mind, she is mostly self-made, because she was “cut off” and she paid her own bills at an early age. But again, nepotism is about more than “my famous parents made me pay my rent when I was 20!” It’s about more than money. While Don and Melanie didn’t support her financially, they supported her in a million other ways, and as we’ve seen endlessly, Hollywood loves first-gen, second-gen and third-gen nepo babies. Dakota was able to walk into auditions as the daughter of Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith. That gave her an enormous leg up. It’s okay to acknowledge it and your own nepo privilege.
Dakota Johnson speaks to @hodakotb about ‘Madame Web,’ how she feels about the trajectory of her career, how her dad Don Johnson cut her off financially, her thoughts on the ‘nepo baby’ label and more.
And you’re always invited to join us all day, Dakota! pic.twitter.com/yd5grJOdDS
— TODAY (@TODAYshow) February 7, 2024
Photos courtesy of xRWx/Avalon Red, Avalon Red and Cover Images.
-
- Dakota Johnson at Madame Web photocall, London at Claridges in London, UK, on 31st January 2024,Image: 842102509, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Credit line: James Shaw / Avalon
-
- Dakota Johnson at Madame Web photocall, London at Claridges in London, UK, on 31st January 2024,Image: 842102531, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Credit line: James Shaw / Avalon
-
- NEW YORK, NY- FEBRUARY 7: Dakota Johnson seen on NBC s Today Show in New York City on February 07, 2024. Copyright: xRWx,Image: 844582230, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: imago is entitled to issue a simple usage license at the time of provision. Personality and trademark rights as well as copyright laws regarding art-works shown must be observed. Commercial use at your own risk., Model Release: no, Credit line: IMAGO/RW / Avalon
-
- NEW YORK, NY- FEBRUARY 7: Dakota Johnson seen on NBC s Today Show in New York City on February 07, 2024. Copyright: xRWx,Image: 844582252, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: imago is entitled to issue a simple usage license at the time of provision. Personality and trademark rights as well as copyright laws regarding art-works shown must be observed. Commercial use at your own risk., Model Release: no, Credit line: IMAGO/RW / Avalon
-
- Dakota Johnson Exit Downtown Hotel in NYC Featuring: Dakota Johnson Where: New York, New York, United States When: 07 Feb 2024 Credit: Janet Mayer/INSTARimages.com
Of course Peak Nepo Baby thinks it’s lame. *insert eye roll*
I think it was lame when they put Meghan Markle’s name on the list just because, Prince Harry. But, yes, Dakota’s picture should appear next to that word when the OED adopts it.
Beyond how “boring” Dakota’s “talking about nepotism is boring” stance is, who still says “lame”? I thought as a society we’ve been moving away from such ableist language and I’m disappointed to hear her use that derogatory term.
Of course she does – she would never have had a career if it wasn’t for her name and parents. She really is a bland person and even blander actress.
yes! “bland” is exactly the way to describe her acting. She is where she is because of her family connections, full stop.
And even this story – she had to ask her rich mom to help her out when her rich dad cut off her allowance? oh the horrors!!!
If she was a woman I knew at work or around I’d think she was attractive, but within hollyweird I find her odd/basic looking and acting. Like a fish out of water who’s only in the water b/c her parents/stepparents were swimming in the hollyweird pond. I feel mean but I think it when I see her.
Right! And the problem with nepo babies is that a lot of them don’t actually realize how basic they are. Most of have a desperate need to believe that they got to where they are based on merit and talent alone and not because of the inherent industry connections established by their rich and famous parents.
“Mom even had to help me buy groceries once!!”
Nepo babies: They’re Just Like Us (!!!)
Thank you I couldn’t figure out the word to describe her acting. I would say ‘wooden’ but ‘bland’ is so much better.
And just based on the trailer, Madame Web looks like it is going to be another MCU flop. Whatever charisma her parents and grandmother have. She did not inherit at all. She’s forgetable to me. And if her name was Dakota Smith she never would have gotten her foot in the Hollywood door.
I’ve only seen her in “The Lost Daughter” (and maybe the first 20min of 50 shades, because that’s how long I lasted). She was very natural and convincing in that, but the character was very “her”—subdued, languid and stilted. She did well there, IMHO.
She doesn’t seem like the deepest and most introspective person. If she were an animal it would be the “sloth”…perpetually deadpanning, unbothered and high.
Exactly this. She has no depth to her acting – it’s all the same no matter what the role. From Persuasion to 50 Shades.
Thank you for the “bland” descriptor @Mimi. She’s just so forgettable. Actually her performance in these appearances helped to cement her and her work in my mind. Dakota Johnson = boring lame(brain), also “incredibly annoying” whenever she opens her mouth.
I wish more people were just own it. “Yes my parents gave me a foot in the door, I’m very fortunate, but I’ve worked hard to keep those opportunities coming for myself.”
Because that’s the reality, they get a head start with name recognition and connections, but if they want to keep going they have to do the work and have some talent.
Allison Williams has the best quotes on the nepo baby topic. These quotes are from Popsugar:
“All that people are looking for is an acknowledgment that it’s not a level playing field,” she said. “It’s just unfair. Period, end of the story, and no one’s really working that hard to make it fair. To not acknowledge that me getting started as an actress versus someone with zero connections isn’t the same — it’s ludicrous. It doesn’t take anything away from the work that I’ve done. It just means that it’s not as fun to root for me.”
Williams continued the discourse during a Town & Country interview the same month, acknowledging that all of the main stars of her breakout show, “Girls” were well-connected in the industry. “[We weren’t] random, like from towns where there’s no one else that has ever broken through, she said. “For someone with no connections to our business to get to the place where I was able to start, skill aside — that’s what people mean. And that’s legitimate.”
Absolutely love that quote from Williams and yes, THAT is how it’s done, folks.
Yes – she gets it! And she didn’t even have 2 movie star parents, her parents are in TV/news. Still beneficial connections for sure, but not the same.
Very much this. Nobody is saying all nepo babies are bad at their craft or don’t work hard. We’re just saying that the literal hardest part of modeling, acting etc is getting that first break, getting your foot in the door. Nepo babies don’t have to work as hard for that piece.
That is the thing that is really annoying – it seemed like she got it when she did the Please Don’t Destroy short, and then had to go out of her way to show that she didn’t understand at all. She somehow thought that was showing how lame the conversation around nepo babies is? She didn’t see the truth behind “a foot in the door and so much more”? What a fool.
I’m really curious what “cut off financially” means to someone with well to do and famous parents… as if they would ever let her live on the streets or even an unsafe neighborhood, please. I have a lot of trouble believing when these nepo kids claim to be in the struggle, that their rich famous parents would ever actually not help them. It’s a little silly to give these interviews where they try to make it sound like they’re a regular person who had to work double time or triple time, just to scrape by and go to school in their 20s/at the start of their careers, give me a break. Sure, Jan…
Her parents made sure she had lucrative job and then told her that she has to use this money to support herself… Is she stupid or does she really not understand?
Exactly. And even then, I’m sure they were still making sure she had her basic living expenses, a phone, maybe a car and insurance covered, before they got her the job. I think it’s a little bit of both that nepo kids/rich kids in general are ignorant to what financial autonomy actually means and they also don’t understand what it’s like to have to work overtime just to keep your lights on and your cell phone covered, *while* you’re looking for other work or going to school… they should just either avoid these conversations or politely acknowledge their considerable privilege and the advantages they had.
Exactly it was more than who paid her rent when she was starting out.
There’s the contacts, the industry knowledge of how things are done, the extra interest in someone simply because they are related to so and so
Plus there’s the security of having come from a background of means, maybe having some savings, resources, just starting out stuff from all those years of having rich parents and getting monthly allowances.
And the awareness that there’s a safety net there … she was never going to wind up destitute or homeless, so she could take risks her peers might not, knowing one of her many parental figures would likely take her in if needed or she could call up Don and say “you’re right Dad, college it is” and likely be back in a heartbeat.
It’s a privilege to have the luxury of taking risks with a safety net.
It’s like learning to ride a bike with training wheels vs without… sure you *might* have great balance, figure out how to pedal without tipping , practice a ton and be lucky enough to not hit pot holes. But it’s easier to do it knowing if you do wobble or tip or stop unexpectedly you’re not going to fall off or crash over out of control.
yes, most nepo babies define it so narrowly and miss so much of why they had a leg up. the industry knowledge, knowing people with agents, etc is such a big deal. it doesnt matter if your parents were in a position to hire you themselves or not.
100% I work in corporate america and Nepo Babies are everywhere. Convesations are taken place behind the scenes. They have the job and the interview is just the formaility to complete the process.
But the kids don’t know that and they think they earned it just like the kid next to them with no connections. When the reality is it was handed to them and and a more deserving person lost out. To give a client’s kid a leg up. And create goodwill to create more lucrative business.
And then said nepo baby gets pouty because they only want to do the ‘fun work’. Also, want a promotion in months of minimal effort. It’s so laughable in my company what happens with these kids. And these will be our future leaders and will drive companies into the ground not knowing what they are doing.
*old lady rant over*
The safety net is the key word. I’m a product of a first-generation middle class family. Meaning that I had a firm path toward upper middle class success set before me, and the knowledge that I would have help if I ever did stumble. Just knowing for a fact that if you called your parents and needed 10,000 dollars in the middle of the night to help you out of a jam, you would have it, is a major statement of privilege. My father was very aware that he did not have a safety net of any kind under him, and he had to act accordingly. That’s a lack of privilege (and I’m sure he resented what looked like a blase attitude of me and my brothers about our privilege–it probably looked selish and entitled to him).
But even being in Hollywood without an allowance, DJ knew that help was just a phone call away no matter what. And if she didn’t make it as an actress, she could turn around and pursue another path without any problems. That was her safety net, just as much as her parents big names. Nepo kids need to acknowledge that it’s not just their parents names that open doors, but their family privilege which cushions any fall. Any failure in hollywood only amounts to embarrassment, not any kind of harm.
Journalists don’t work you, Dakota. And if you lived in the real world, you would be very interested in the narrowing hallways of privilege that determine who is, and who is not allowed to make thier living in art. And you would be mad.
I guess the nepos want some recognition for their efforts and accomplishments. But nepos talking about nepo favoritism didnt apply to them is like white rich old man living in a white neighborhood commenting on how some situation wasnt racism.
My advice to actors/actresses about the nepotism conversation is: just own it. Just say “I know I’m lucky, I know having the parents that I have has given me a leg up. I’m grateful for it and I’m trying my damnedest every day to show people that I don’t take it for granted while also proving myself as an artist”.
Tbh this should basically be the template for any nepo kid, including bankers or models or IT bros or whatever. Just say I see it, I’m grateful, and I’m still working hard. Like… this is not that challenging?
And actually I do sort of agree that the conversation is a little bit boring. But probably not for the reason Dakota thinks. I think it’s a little boring because…. so what? What is coming out of this? Are we changing hiring policies to make things more fair? Or are we just using these anecdotes to make nepotism kids feel shitty for a few days and then moving on? I guess what I’m saying is – are these conversations actually leading to actual change or is it just another piece of rage bait added to the daily gossip chum?
I think the reason it gets so much coverage as a topic is that its sort of fascinating to see these rich people just refuse to acknowledge their privilege, over and over again. Like very very few have good responses when this topic comes up. I feel like they need to get on their nepo babies WhatsApp group chat and come up with something better that they can all use as their go to response.
A year ago, maybe longer, one of these nepo kids DID have a good response for this but I can’t remember who it was. I actually thought it was Dakota but I went back and read some of her old posts on here and I don’t think it was. But the person acknowledged how much their name got them in the door, which was refreshing to hear someone say.
I am the horticulturist at a pretty nice golf course and most of the “self made” men there were handed companies from their fathers. So I think all nepo babies (regardless of their field) deny their privilege.
I can understand gradually getting bored and offended at having to answer the exact same questions about nepotism in every single interview you do. She thinks the journalists are being a bit lazy for not generating new questions. That doesn’t mean the issue isn’t important, though, so her not making that distinction better is where she loses me.
Sounds more like the journalists aren’t interested in anything else about her because she’s a bland actress…
Ha. She’s calling OTHER people “incredibly annoying and boring”?
Gwyneth Paltrow made this same argument a long time ago, how she had to financially support herself when she moved to L.A.. But IIRC she did admit that her parents paid her rent but she was responsible for everything else. Anyway, so many of these family-connected celebrities (I’m sick to death of hearing the tern “nepo baby”) seem to think it’s about money and not name recognition that instantly opens doors for them. I get wanting credit for your work based on its own merits but is it really that hard to acknowledge that you started out with a built-in advantage over others that weren’t born into the industry regardless of your rich & famous parents not paying the bills?
Others have admitted connections got them an agent or auditions that they maybe hadn’t earned otherwise, but they made the most of their opportunities by nailing the auditions and being a good collaborator on set. It isn’t that difficult.
Yeah I think showing some humility and a healthy dose of self-deprecation goes a long way to disarm people. “I am so grateful for the doors that undoubtedly opened because of my parents’ fame, but I’d like to think I wouldn’t have lasted this long in the industry if I didn’t have a decent work ethic and at least a bit of talent.”
Rent is absolutely the biggest expense and my guess would be she had a pretty nice apartment. She didn’t have to wait tables and Dakota didn’t either.
Chris Martin certainly has a type
That just made me cackle 🙂
Well he’s know for the elevator music…
lol imagine being an elevator music muse and believing it makes you more interesting and edgy
That’s too funny – reading this I thought “huh, she must have been talking to Gwenyth about all this.”
I do have a small sliver of sympathy for her because this movie looks DOA (and that’s coming from a Marvel fan) and she’s still plugging away and being asked how her family connections helped get her cast in that garbage fire of a movie. But other nepo babies have demonstrated there’s a skillful way to navigate that discussion and her response ain’t it.
I’ve enjoyed a lot of Marvel movies, but I’m starting to think that someone there is sabotaging all the female-led ones. Captain Marvel’s editing and structure did it no favors, The Eternals was boring, The Marvels got little promotion and bad reviews, and now they’ve hired an extremely uncharismatic nepo baby for Madame Web, which sounds like an interesting premise otherwise.
Not on nepo baby topic, but answering a question you’re sick of. Timothee Chamolet was asked (likely for the 1000th time) what is the proper pronunciation of his name. And he responded something like “Call me whatever you want. I’ll answer to ‘Doug’ if you want me to. Next question.” LOL He was so charming about it, too. Anyhoo, Dakota needs to come up with some version of an answer that will move the conversation along without sounding like an entitled twit.
I agree with this. She gets asked the question a million times and I get not wanting to talk about it, but then find a way of not talking about it.
Maybe she should have gone to college because she is the least articulate interviewee I’ve seen in a long time. How many “like, if…” and “I was like…” did she use. Not to mention using “lame” as the descriptor when there are myriad other words she could have used to get the point across. Nobody uses lame in conversation. I’d say she should spend some of her hard earned money on media training.
I remember in a past interview she said she didn’t do well in school because she travelled around with her parents on set, barely did her homework and hardly passed high school. Her lack of education shows.
Always interesting to see the nepobaes who rode on their parents’ coattails to a successful career suddenly get shy when questioned about their famous parents.
She was so lacking on SNL. Some people are just great performers…she is not.
I always wondered what happened between her and Danny Masterson’s youngest brother. They dated for a couple of years but he was dropped I believe before Grey came out. I wonder how roped into the Scientology she was.
Eh – live acting and film acting are two VERY different skill sets. There are some actors who are great at both but if you don’t do theater it can be hard to transition to anything live. I think she is a good actress – but that doesn’t magically translate to being able to do live work.
Oh I agree but I think truly talented actors can do both think Anne Hathaway, Pedro Pascal, Adam Driver etc…
I think she’s an ok actress but I doubt she’d be where she is without the connections.
This is such an awful take. She seems chill and down to earth but yep, just as blindly privileged as the rest of them. She may have been ‘cut off’ but she must realise that she wouldn’t have been left on the streets if her acting career hadn’t worked out. A huge part of privilege is being able to take risks because your wealthy family would *never* leave you destitute no matter what happened. And I’m sorry but – having your allowance cut off? Not everyone has an allowance….. ???
It is the ego that prevents them from saying it out loud. Otherwise, I am sure they have already been given a safe script they can repeat. We are talking about the auditions, but before that, they get an agent. Then, the agent will find them auditions and you bet, they are gonna tell the productions who your father/mother is to get you the role. In that famous nepo article, I think Dakota was on the cover. There is no doubt she is extra sensitive about that.
I’ll never understand why nepo babies get so offended when you point out that they are in fact nepo babies.
You can’t understand why? You don’t think the whole point of the nepo baby label isn’t to undercut her and say “ we’ll, that’s all well and good but you wouldn’t have made it this far without your parents” it is undercutting.
Dakota, along with Zoe Kravitz, are two of the more boring nepo babies in Hollywood. How these ladies sprung from the likes of Melanie Griffith/Don Johnson and Lisa Bonet/Lenny Kravitz and manage to be so yawn-inducing boggles my mind.
Her acting and appearance are bland as hell but I thought at least she was funny and had a good head on her shoulder. Now this comment really pissed me off so I’ll just ignore the things she’s in from now on.
Nepo babies telling people the nepobaby talk is “like, lame”, from the pov of their own massive privilege, pisses tf out of me. You had better shut up Dakota.
You tell her Serena. How dare that nepo baby NOT grovel for our approval and absolution of her audacity to live her life without apologizing for what she cannot control. (Sarcasm)
She doesn’t need to grovel just acknowledge her privilege instead of acting tired people ask her about how easy her start was thanks to her famous family. Or at least ignore it instead of sounding like an absolute airhead.
I think she is a cute person, but if she wasn’t a nepo baby, she wouldn’t have a career. Not even a little one. Just my opinion. But she is just not that compelling on the screen.
Forget her weak acting skills; she is not pretty, nor is she beautiful. There is nothing remarkable about her looks that would garner her attention or make her stand out amongst millions of much more attractive actresses. She is a very, very fortunate woman to have had famous parents.
Lol of course she’s pretty. Sheesh.
Dear Dakota, if mommy is buying your groceries, you haven’t been cut off
While I understand how this could feel dismissive of hard work, I don’t understand why so many of the Nepobabies struggle to answer this and why publicists don’t have a stock answer ready for them to say to avoid making it a bigger story. Because all this did was make her look worse.
Compare this to Allison Williams’ answer and it is night and day.
My two cents. I find the whole topic tedious. It’s one thing to mention a person’s famous parents but to say that they are sole reason that a Dakota Johnson or a Zoe Kravitz has sustained a career is unfair to the actor. I seriously doubt that Melanie Griffith or Don Johnson put in a call to have Dakota cast in 50 Shades. If they did, then they are bad parents because that movie was terrible! And I don’t think anyone is obligated to provide their ancestry every time they are interviewed.
Nobody is accusing Dakota’s parents of literally “putting in a call” to get her cast in a movie.
The point is that if you have famous parents, you automatically enjoy the connections that come with their fame. It’s naïve to think that Hollywood isn’t one big circle jerk. Famous actors hang with famous directors who hang with famous talent agents who hang with famous casting directors who hang with famous screenwriters etc. Many celebuspawn grow up surrounded by these people who they know mostly as their parents’ friends. Those are the connections we are talking about: the organic ones that are formed within a tightknit, downright incestuous industry that is undergirded by networking, connections, and yes, favors. The industry rewards it’s own–it always has–and that’s where the term “Hollywood Royalty” comes from: pass the crown.
Oh, honey, you really ARE the personification of nepotism. Have several seats while I tune up the world’s tiniest violin…
No mention of 2/3 of the Please Destroy boys are nepo babies too ( thus the point of the joke in the skit)?
I agree with Dakota – I’m over it.
Plus she is gracious and funny about her privilege – she was hilarious on SNL when they did a whole nepo baby skit w her in on the joke.
What’s more, I feel that our current culture demands apologies for any and all advantages and it needs to stop. I am exhausted seeing it at all levels. Basically everyone who has sour grapes is dragging the rest down into the tank with them.
Agreed. And this does happen in every industry-and always has.
Goes beyond sour grapes to continuing a conversation, as repetitive it might be now, to ensure greater equality whether that’s possible or not. Their industry is mostly luck – and having famous parents/relatives is a huge dose of luck.
Dakota has earned millions from the Grey movies.
Nepo or not, I’d cash those checks too.
I can take her or leave her. She was good in some adaption of a Jane Austin book on Netflix.
See how bland I find her? Can’t remember the name, too lazy to look it up.
Nepo offspring-wise, Felecity Huffman and Aunt Becky bribing their kids way into a good college offends me more than a HW kid getting into movies. Just me I guess.
And Nepotism runs wild everywhere. The Owners kid is not going to be unloading trucks at the warehouse, never happen IRL. If you are The Owners kid or married to the Owners kid = Sitting pretty. Welcome to the real world.
I guess the problem is nepotism in show business? Or, is it they don’t talk about it more? Our pediatrician, plumber, accountant and dentist are the children of parents with the exact same careers. 3 of our favorite restaurants are family run & will be left to the kids. The star players on my son’s high school soccer team have parents who played professionally or in college. I like all of them.
Kennedy, Bush, Clinton
Dylan, Judd, Cash, Presley
It’s everywhere
It’s just that these nepo babies don’t become “everyday actors” – Los Angeles is full of solid ordinary actors – it’s that they are practically handed a Movie Star Status. If they were just random actors in a barn theater in a small town nobody would have an issue. You cannot compare Hollywood stardom and being a dentist/lawyer/plumber, it’s not that difficult to become a dentist/lawyer/plumber. But becoming a movie star is like winning the Wonka factory golden ticket, and you should just admit that yeah you got handed the golden ticket. Even if you win the Oscar or Emmy or Grammy or whatever later, just admit you didn’t have to go through the massive obstacle course other people do, in the beginning.
Dakota looks more like Don Johnson than her Mum to me.
Most of Don Johnsons sons truly favor him. Handsome man, where are they working?
Old Hollywood Nepo babies:
Robert Mitchum, had a son Christopher Mitchum who tried acting. He looked like a blonde clone of his famous Dad. Terrible, wooden actor, IIRC. Mostly had small parts in his Dads movies.
Gregory Peck, had one of his sons and a grandson, I think both tried acting or modeling. Stunningly handsome men.
Patrick Wayne, son of John Wayne, was in McClintok with his Dad, handsome young man who was an OK actor.
IIRC, John Wayne had his own production company and several of his sons had small parts in his movies.
Btw, Jamie Lee Curtis and Carrie Fischer are in a category of their own. Both would have made it, without nepotism, IMO.
Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell should start a production company, hire all their nepo kids and then all kinds of crew/non related actors. Create more jobs for everybody. Between them, I think 3/4 of their kids are actors. LOL
45% of HW is related to each other.
Ugh I really liked her but this statement put a sour taste in my mouth. I still think she is gorgeous.
Persuasion was so bad! That’s all I got. She wasn’t the problem; the adaptation was offensive to the spirit of Jane Austen and to the era.
She’s an okay actress, and she’s pretty and quite funny in interviews (her honesty about the limes was hilarious). I haven’t seen that much of her work. She wouldn’t have stood out when she was just starting out except for her famous parents.
I enjoyed persuasion! It was refreshing to see a different take on the hundred existing Austen adaptations.
What has Angelina Jolie said about being a nepo baby?
Never been a fan of Angie but she would have been a huge star anyway, without the reflected fame from her father. She was always a huge personality if not the most versatile actress. Also PR savvy and an expert at generating clicks/coverage.
I look at it this way – If the child of two gifted writers, musicians, athletes, academics, scientists, etc., grew up to embody the same talents and decided to embrace a similar career, it would be viewed as an obvious choice. So why not with actors or models? They’re just using the DNA they were born with.