We hate the term “nepo baby” and the way that it is used in the context of Hollywood. We’ve been around long enough to know that you need someone to know someone to get you in the door in Hollywood. It shouldn’t be held against you that the person that helps you out is a family member.
The reality is that even if someone gets you in the door, you’re going too have to do the job to hold the job. It doesn’t matter if you are a nepo baby or not.
Emma Roberts comes from a very famous family – her father being Eric Roberts and her aunt being Julia Roberts. But has the fact that she comes from a famous family helped her?
Well, she answered that question while doing an interview with Flaunt, saying that being a “nepo baby” has hurt her more than helped her at times.
“It was a cheap shot to put all the celebrity kids on the cover of a magazine on babies’ bodies. It’s like maybe the ‘Nepo Baby’ conversation would’ve been a more interesting article written intelligently in Vanity Fair with nuance, but instead, it was kind of this viral hating-on-people thing.”
She went on to address the issue of being a nepo baby head on, she talked about if having the last name Roberts was something that gotten her jobs.
“I’ve lost more jobs than I’ve gained from being in the business,” Roberts told the outlet. “People have opinions and sometimes maybe they’re not good opinions of people in your family. I’ve never gotten a job because of it, I know I definitely have lost a couple of jobs because of it.”
“I think there’s two sides of the coin, you know. People like to say, ‘You have a leg up because you have family in the industry,’ but then the other side to that is, you know, you have to prove yourself more. Also, if people don’t have [a] good experience maybe with other people in your family, then you’ll never get the chance,” Emma also said.
“I think there’s something to be said where everybody loves the kind of overnight success story. And so if you’re kind of not the girl from the middle of nowhere that broke into Hollywood, you know there’s kind of an eye roll of like, ‘Well, your dad was this.'”
She went on to say that she did get jobs through “determination” (which is something that we admire).
She said, “You kind of have [that tenacity] or you don’t. And I think that that’s kind of what makes certain people sustain. That’s just what I’ve seen, I’m open to other suggestions.”
We have no suggestions. Just keep doing what you’re doing, Emma.
