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Nobody's saying your dipshit child doesn't work hard. They're saying he has access and opportunities few others do.
Is the only reason he's in a position to be cast for roles that you're his parent? Probably not. Is a reason he's in a position to be cast for roles that you're his parent? You're stupid if you don't think so.
Plenty of struggling actors have a good work ethic but don’t have powerful/successful mommies and daddies giving them a foot in the door, Meg.
It's not dismissive to call him a nepo baby. It's just a reflection of reality. It doesn't make him a bad actor, it's just acknowledging he's privileged by being the son of two very famous actors. Besides, [puts on Jeff Foxworthy mustache] If the biggest hardship you face in your life is being called a "nepo baby" then you just might be a nepo baby
There is nothing wrong with parents using their influence to help their child. And there is nothing wrong with people pointing it out.
If the child doesn’t want those easy comparisons they could have done something different than their parents. That’s what most children do who have to brave their own way.
I admire the Hollywood nepo babies who changed their last names to distinguish themselves as an individual rather than linked to their famous parents.
This Quaid kid obviously did not change his last name.
That only distinguishes them in the public sphere. The people who would help them based on their parentage still know who they are. Imo it's more about PR than actually shedding their leg up
There is nothing wrong with parents using their influence to help their child.
I'm gonna disagree with you on that one, Hoss. It's definitely a problem.
Any system one imagines that necessitates that parents won't do whatever they can to give their kids the best shot, is a fundamentally flawed system.
Fuck that nonsense. This is the same mindset as every poor person who thinks of themselves as a "temporarily embarrassed millionaire." You say it with the assumption that you're somewhere in that equation and don't give a shit about any kind of equality. That's selfish as shit. You phrase it like they should be stopped from helping to make sure their kids are still fed while off at college or some shit, but we're talking about millionaires helping their millionaire children also maintain their millionaire lifestyle by leveraging their brand to possibly get a role someone without famous parents could use to fucking survive. I don't care how able he is to do a good job, it's bullshit to pretend he actually deserves it because his parents really feel like he should.
I think you responded to the wrong post.
I did not! I definitely intended to respond to you implying there's nothing wrong with parents using their influence to help their child.
As in, they didn't write the original comment you responded to.
Ah, I understand the confusion. I didn't write that, or imply that.
Isn't Harvard being investigated for this very thing?
Yeah.
I'm not vying for a pure meritocracy, but the system we currently have to work and live in, as established, expects merit to be the thing that enables success and advancement in living conditions. As long as that's the system were in, those that already exist with a certain level of privilege of already achieving acceptable, if not ample living conditions, shouldn't be given an additional lead on those that don't. This guy was never going to be poor or struggling to eat because he couldn't find a job.
When speaking about privilege, I like to use the race analogy. Some people are given bikes while some are given cars, and others even just have to walk. This guy was born with a sports car already, then his parents started him a mile ahead from the starting line.
Bradward/Hewey is awesome on screen. Please don't let him be a douche in real life!!
Fortunately, I haven't seen anything that'd suggest he is. And being a nepo baby doesn't suggest it in and of itself either. Meg's just pissy because "the little people" are pointing out that her son had access and opportunities that 99.9% of us don't. He had a leg up on everyone by the circumstances of his birth, it's just silly to try and handwave it away and pretend he got there purely on merit.. It is what it is.
To what end are we bringing it up though?
Is there a point, or is the only point to degrade the actor in some way?
I feel this is one of those situations where I can say 'You aren't wrong, but you're an asshole' if you are bringing it up without a greater reason.
I don't think the dude would be ragged on for taking advantage of the opportunity afforded to him.
He seemed really cool in one of RedLetterMedia's Plinketto episodes.
I'll take your word for it. (I couldn't stand more than a minute of that host.) Relieved!
He's amazing on the comedy podcast Comedy Bang Bang.
Mummy thinks her son is a handsome boy.
Ahh yes the ol' "Billionaires work 100,000 times harder then fast food employees" defense.
Unpopular opinion - sure, it's fair to point out the privileges that offsprings of Hollywood elites enjoy, but let's not pretend the term "nepo baby" is not a backhanded sound bite to demean this particular group and devalue them in some way.
Personally if I'm a Hollywood elite, I'd be less offended if my kid is called "privileged" rather than "nepo baby", but people choose the latter for this exact reason.
It's a sub-classification of privilege. "Privileged" could mean any number of things.