“People will always have preconceived ideas about how you got to where you are, but I can confidently say that nothing gets you a role more than being right for it.” Among others, this is what 23-year-old Lily-Rose Depp, daughter of Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis, said a while ago, regarding the not-so-silent suspicions that her career is mainly due to her famous parents. But Lily-Rose is just an example, and the reactions caused by the convenient misrecognition of her privilege are indicative. Nepo babies are numerous and are the most blatant manifestation of a generalized phenomenon that is finally being boldly articulated: that of relentless, ubiquitous nepotism. Success and recognition are neither accidents nor solely products of talent and hard work; they are mainly a matter of family inheritance. The “preconceived idea” that Lily-Rose mentions is nothing more than a law of historical continuity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An endless list<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 33-year-old Dakota Johnson, daughter of Melanie Griffith, established herself in the cinema thanks to her leading role in “Fifty Shades of Grey”. 24-year-old Maya Hawke, daughter of Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman, emerged as one of the most sought-after stars of today through the television blockbuster “Stranger Things.” Zoe Kravitz, daughter of Lenny Kravitz and Lisa Bonet, is 34 after more than ten years of successful participation in major film, television and commercial productions. The list of wildly successful offspring is endless and includes great, mediocre or even non-existent talents. But the issue is not in the, anyway, subjective and abstract question of personal worth. The bottom line lies in the right to opportunity: what distinguishes the privileged from the underprivileged is not some otherworldly gift, but access to the right circles and then favor in the field of choice; extraordinary talents may shine on their own, but how much do such exist? In a casting, the person in charge is not necessarily asked to find the Oscar-winning element among mediocrity, but the right one among many, equally good candidates. This is where family background plays a key role (if it hasn’t already). When the choice is difficult, that’s when dating makes it easier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Beyond Hollywood<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The debate that has now opened up about nepotism in Hollywood may seem like a first-world problem, but it is interesting bordering on fascinating, precisely because it obliquely brings to light a pathology that plagues the market and the workplace in general. The concept of the “plug”, a taboo that to this day is mostly discussed privately and guiltily in the form of gossip (don’t call us mean-spirited or jealous), takes on its proper dimensions and the masks finally fall: no, it’s not the divine skills or your unspeakable toil of being restored and established when your parents are famous, rich and networked. It’s your parents who do the work, no matter how capable and hardworking you are. Acquired power precedes individual talent and illuminates the latter appropriately so that it overshadows the talent of those without acquired power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Beneficiary debt<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Reasonably and somewhat provocatively, the question arises: “So the children of celebrities do not have a right to success?” Because it comes easier to them, do they have to renounce it?” The answer is that they have every right to enjoy their privilege. However, for moral reasons, they must recognize it and stop whining; they must compensate for the asymmetry generated by their luck by helping the less fortunate. If they don’t want to, they don’t have to do anything. But it would be good if they didn’t overthink it so much. They’re not fooling anyone anymore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “People will always have preconceived ideas about how you got to where you are, but I can confidently say that nothing gets you a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[390,819],"tags":[4019,4018,4020],"class_list":["post-12026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-usa","tag-hollywood","tag-nepo-babies","tag-nepotism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12028,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12026\/revisions\/12028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}