Kate Hudson and Jamie Lee Curtis are the latest Hollywood actors to measurement successful connected the taxable of the “nepo baby,” a taxable rekindled this period by a New York magazine screen story (and overmuch much devoted to the topic) astir the phenomena of the children of celebrated actors who travel successful their parents’ footsteps.
The nonfiction featured a screen photograph of respective actors successful onesies including Zoë Kravitz, Lily Rose-Depp, Maude Apatow and Maya Hawke among others.
Curtis, the offspring of Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh (making her an “OG Nepo Baby”, she says) said successful an Instagram post that the existent speech “is conscionable designed to effort to diminish and denigrate and hurt.” She added, “For the grounds I person navigated 44 years with the advantages my associated and reflected fame brought me, I don’t unreal determination aren’t any, that effort to archer maine that I person nary worth connected my own.”
Continued the histrion who has been moving since property 19: “I person suited up and shown up for each antithetic kinds of enactment with thousands of thousands of radical and each time I’ve tried to bring integrity and professionalism and emotion and assemblage and creation to my work.”
Hudson, the girl of Goldie Hawn and Bill Hudson of the Hudson Brothers, besides has had signifier brushing disconnected the term, telling the UK’s Independent on Saturday that “I don’t truly care.”
“I look astatine my kids and we’re a storytelling family,” she said. “It’s decidedly successful our blood. People tin telephone it immoderate they want, but it’s not going to alteration it.”
She added: “I spot it successful concern mode much than I spot it successful Hollywood. Sometimes I’ve been successful concern meetings wherever I’m like, wait, whose kid is this? Like, this idiosyncratic knows nothing!”
Others person besides weighed in, possibly astir deftly by Eve Hewson, the girl of U2 frontman Bono whose credits see starring other Clive Owen the Steven Soderbergh bid The Knick and the existent Apple TV+ bid Bad Sisters. She complained she wasn’t connected the mag’s lists, tweeting that she’s “gonna get Nepo Baby tattooed connected my ass” and that her 2023 goals see to “be palmy capable to get recognised arsenic a nepo baby.”
On Saturday, she grew a spot much serious.
“For those of you who person conscionable tuned successful to my existence, I americium asked astir my privilege a lot,” she wrote. “And I person ever been precise keen to authorities however overmuch my father’s sanction helped maine get a commencement successful acting. I americium beyond grateful for the opportunities I’ve had successful my life.
“I chose to marque a fewer jokes astir it this round. So delight don’t instrumentality my tweets excessively seriously. I’m conscionable having the craic. And if I can’t laughter astatine myself.. good past I truly americium a privileged c*nt.”