, Zoë Kravitz echoed the sentiment: “It’s completely normal for people to be in the family business,” Kravitz says. “It’s literally where last names came from. You were a blacksmith if your family was, like, the Black family.”close. Of course, someone has to go to medical school to be a doctor, but if someone has a parent who is a doctor, thata massive part of why and how they became a doctor. They knew they could be a doctor and then had the resources to pursue it.
Apatow dealt with the question with slightly more self-awareness — but despite having famous parents, she wasn’t sitting on Scary Spice’s lap at the VMAs like Kravitz, and her dad directs movies starring Seth Rogan; he’s not Johnny Depp., saying she felt she being judged by something other than her talent. “I try not to let it get to me because I obviously understand that I’m in such a lucky position,” she continued.
“I’ve acted in so many of my parents’ movies, and people are going to say it’s nepotism. I mean, it’s not even an insult — well, it is an insult, but it is what it is,” she also told“I’m gonna spend my whole life trying to prove myself as an individual, and that’s a chip on my shoulder. It’s really important to me to show that I work really hard, because I do.”A Star Is Born. We want so badly to believe in the lie of the American Dream because it’s romantic and hopeful.
But saying someone is benefitting from nepotism isn’t an insult. Capitalizing on connections is how the world works, and happens in virtually every industry. It’s a fact, and one that we can acknowledge and move on from, instead of deflect and defend. Doing so only furthers the gap these celebrities so badly want to close in the first place.