Glad to see you back!

Truly happy that my favourite human-bovine duo is back and refreshed!

welcome back!! glad to hear ur break was nice :D

good to see you back tara

Happy you got a break!

“She was just the best person for the part!” **shrug**

Lily Rose is such an infuriating case, especially when you compare her to Johnny. Dude really looked all those talented aspiring actors and said "I'm gonna make it even HARDER for you to get where I am".

A lot of the times, for these kinds of things, they only say they’re looking for someone to fit a role, while already having someone specific in mind, if not already chosen, to simply drudge up traffic for whatever film project presented. Or projects in general honestly. Like u get more people talking ab the proj if a portion of these people deceivingly believe they actually have a chance of being a part of it. It’s gross.

Darling, You can't expect the weeknd to rub shoulders with peasants! 🙄

that’s actually so depressing wow

EXACTLY! And she happens to be talented and likeable, so we've got no beef with her!

Yeah! I watched a show on the making of Halloween and the creators were like "idk who this girl is." then someone informed them of her mom and dad and they said "oh we'd be stupid not to use her" Luckily she was really talented and perfect for the part but she doesn't parade around saying who her parents are wasn't a huge reason for her success.

Agreed completely.

Oooh, ‘beef’ … is Cow ok with that?

Carrie Fisher used to also be pretty up front and honest about her famous parents contributing to her getting her roles and her using her star wars cred to get roles when she was over forty. I always really respected that.

Maybe that's why they made a whole show about how even though her father was a country star they gave her a stage name and pretended nobody knew who she really was. Just feeding that nepotism with fiction

Superstar? lol. He had ONE hit in the early 90's.

@@SuperSPatrick that hit was enormous.

@@jackdaniels2905 That hit was all he had an everyone was over it after that year.

@@SuperSPatrick and his achy breaky heart just couldn’t take it

Survivor bias

Some of the best shows I've seen have be in the local theater in my little New Jersey town. I mean pretty damn close to Broadway quality productions. Hell, the high school in my town, Point Pleasant Boro, puts on stellar shows! I strongly recommend everyone support their local theater. Not once have I walked out of a local show and said, "You know, that was really amateurish. I didn't enjoy myself and it was just...bad."

Don’t even talk theatre in this discussion. On stage, these nepotism kids of Hollywood would be laughed off of it.

Yep! Chicago is littered with astronomically talented people who didn’t have enough savings to make friends in Hollywood before they had to come back to rot in small theatre. It makes for great theatre’, but also a shitpile of broken dreams. Then again, they in turn are just as cliquey, so it’s hard to feel bad for them.

Why should an entree for a woman who was born with connections I will never have be welcome to me? Just be honest and ban poor people.

Its like a veil of ignorance, I doubt the rich and powerful can see the truth of their success. Also why would they want to? Human ego can only be undercut by a true effort to see ones own short comings and leg ups.

WOWWWW...ya NAILED IT

this comment should be a show. now, whomst shall we cast!? 🤣

Have a rich family. Can attest that my mother regularly says my uncle had to fight hard and prove himself to become the CEO of the company my great grandfather started. She’ll swear up and down that her brother is the hardest working person she knows. He was up against like 4 of his cousins for the job, lmao. And god forbid he fail and end up as COO or CFO instead. So ridiculous. Meanwhile, his wife raised triplets and put in more hard work in a day than he did over the course of his entire professional career.

@@Katie08822 and this is driving at the crux of the matter. To the rich, life HAS to be a meritocracy to prevent them thinking of the injustice and inequality which has allowed them to get where they are. If it wasn't a meritocracy, why that would mean that poor people are poor through no fault of their own and rich people do not deserve the wealth the have accumulated! If its not a meritocracy then that would imply that the deck was stacked before they started playing the game, and that makes them feel bad. But they're rich! They shouldn't have to feel bad right? RIGHT??? it's the same thing when ghouls like Elon musk (and his posse of bootlicking followers) claim that he built himself up from nothing despite the fact that his father owned a literal emerald mine. Without a meritocracy, the myth of the self made millionaire is laid bare as a falsehood; they start to realise that everyone who got rich did so on the back of the working poor. And that makes them feel bad. So they ignore it and keep on clicking their heels together.

damn, that's fascinating

(that sounds sarcastic but it genuinely isn't)

@@TaraMooknee I didn’t read it sarcastically lol no worries, BTW those puppy cow jammies are adorable!

There is a really interesting “Reasons to be Cheerful” podcast on this ☺️

hey thanks for pointing that out a lot of people sadly don't know when it was first coined it was intended to be represented as dystopian in nature.

👌🏻

Its def comfy living in that state of denial, they are just trying to silence their sense of morality

Glad u cut them off lmao they are insufferable

@@mmgs1148 I don't think it's like that for many. My parents are rich. I remember when someone told me they make 20.000 and I thought: That's not a lot for a month are they ok. Just to be told they make that in a year. It was completely mind blowing for me. But while I objectively understood that there are poor people and that their life is more difficult because I've been told that. I didn't understand it. It was only after I decided to live on my own when I started attending university without noteworthy help of my parents and losing my part time job due to covid that I realized what it means to worry about paying the bills or what it means to be poor. Most teen movies or other types of media don't feature realistic poverty (if they ever feature poverty at all) it's mostly underdog stories or ugly duckling to swan stories and it's not exactly like I've watched well made documentaries as a kid. People born into rich families can relate to being poor like most people in the western world can relate to a starving child in Africa. Objectively you know there are children starving in Afrika or Asia. But that doesn't make you realize how precious food is when you grew up with a stuffed fridge and the ability to buy easily food. The children in Afrika are an abstract concept in your mind and even watching a good documentary is not going to make you understand their situation 100%. I mean just look at the food waste western countries have or the amount of sweets and fast food we eat or how many people donate even just 1 or 2€ a month to organizations meant to help. It's pretty clear there is no real appreciation on a wider scale. Yet you most people wouldn't say that people who can quickly go to the supermarket are silencing their sense of morality because there are children starving at the other end of the world.

It reminds me of people who are extraordinarily talented at something saying that they just worked hard (see Richard Feynman claiming that he was an ordinary person who studied hard, even though if you look at accounts of his youth it’s quite clear to the rest of us that he was always far from ordinary). Like, yes, hard work is important, but it only gets you so far. But because they’ve had their gifts (either murky stuff like talent/intelligence or concrete stuff like connections/money) from the start and have never known any different, outliers often really have no idea of how different their experience is from the average or what it’s like not to have their advantages, and sort of implicitly assume that anyone could do what they can if they just tried.

The thing with hollywood nepotism, it gives us a glimpse of what is happening literally on every level. For example Gates, his kids will inherit the win, and continue to push his poison. Same with politics, the kids of Trump with continue his legacy and probably one of them will run for prez in the future.

Her dad is Eric Roberts (Julia's brother) and he's also a famous actor, so she is like the ultimate nepo baby.

I remember the marketing for her Nick show Unfabulous made it no secret that Julia Roberts was her aunt!

Evan if her family didn't actively did something to help her, her name is roberts, wich had to sound familiar to casting agents and producers

Yeah... She is not that good

i mean... i can't blame her that much. Sure it is simple logic and she should be able to recognize all that but there is always that... who of us knows how these people are risen, how they are taught... I know for myself i always and still live under the fear my mother is what stays behind most of what i see as daily advantage. It reach weird level of paranoia and suspicious I would say. For example how some teachers look on me comparing it to others no matter others just do not and that I do not even live with my mother for years now... And sometimes i just fall in despair and strong need to believe this is not true. What I mean is... we always should doubt others and ourselves The other thing is that... it is not fair but what in society is? We look up on them, we push them to a certain corner which we do not even want to recognize we do, we are the peasants ready to burn down the sick rich people if they were just rich... can't stand the truth what we look for in the face of justice that simply does not exist. We romanticizes the struggle comforting ourselves that this can bring some type of equality in a thing we can't change... Our struggles are too simple for them to fix because of the money so we want to see something they can't overcome that easy. Because no one is ready to make compromise and accept if they do not get everything they want. The celebrities loves their wealth and everything it brings them but are not ready to face the hate of society that comes with it, they want to be the perfect and loved imperators without giving too much and the peasants we are can't live knowing there is someone with better life if we do not see them in regular pain, a price for what we can't have. At the end we both sacrifice more than needed and for good or bad the alternative seems like utopia

That's not another layer, that's literally what Tara explains in the first half of the video.

I think it would be worse if they grabbed one of those jobs that “pay the bills” leaving another person jobless when they don’t need to work at all.

And that applies to wealth generally.

Very true. In any artistic career it helps to have the backing to help you get through the first time before you start earning. I guess many poor/regular people have to spend too much time on their bread job and give up before their (possible) break through.

@@ygt2813 I think he went to a public school

they thing with those models, the parents are paying the designer to hire them.

Yes and although I think she's only admitted to some of her surgeries (which is better than admitting to none), in an interview she said something along the lines of "I look this good at my age because I have money" which is honesty that's really refreshing to hear.

Jane Fonda literally can not be bothered, she’s too busy being real

Love her

I hope you also give money to the "Why lie, I need a beer" bums.

@@hannaheve868 also Jane Fonda should never be mentioned without reminding people of how she posed with starving abused POWs. Not okay, idk who you are, Hanoi Jane.

do you by any chance remember which interview/ video it was?

I've also read an interview where she openly talked about how she got where she was due to nepotism.

@@violetfolgi Hi! It's a piece from The New Yorker. If you search "Jamie Lee Curtis Nepotism" it should be the first result.

@@MsDiMera2 It might have been the same article, but I think she's also verbally talked about it in her Vanity Fair video

@@MsDiMera2 But yeah, I loved the article. It was a refreshing perspective on the "nepotism baby" I always had a prejudice for it but gave me the benefit of the doubt that people can be self-aware and change.

Yeah, she and her daughter were the first ones that came to mind for me. Also Jamie Lee Curtis.

She actually said it in her books, she didn’t even want to act, but it was the easiest way to get any work at all

Family of Queens

Related to Ryan Reynolds?

Yes, she even talks about it in her comedy show. It’s funny and very interesting because she explains a lot of stuff behind the scene of Hollywood and about her parents. She is very aware of it which makes her able to take a step back and analyses it. She also talks about other stuff like her alcoholism, bipolar disorder, how George Lucas ruined her life (she says it jokingly in the show but I think there’s some truth to it), etc.

@Rachel Forshee but MOST don’t admit it. 4 famous people admitting it does not mean most actors in the industry credit their nepotism.

@Rachel Forshee The majority don't admit it and play coy when asked about the role nepotism plays in getting auditions and roles. Billie Lourd (Carrie Fisher's daughter) admitted to having a personal meeting with Ryan Murphy prior to booking Scream Queens and we all know how she booked her minor role in the resistance in Star Wars. But many of them aren't open. Nicolas Cage changed his last name and pretended he wasn't a Coppola. And there are loads of others who you don't realize have famous parents until it's mentioned in an interview or you look them up.

lmao I kept scrolling through the comments waiting for someone to mention Bollywood!

so true, everyone in bollywood is practically related to each other in some way

@@maytabangin5349 What about Kartik Aaryan?

​@@yamyam493 what about Srk, Ayushman khurana, Rajkumar rao, Sidharth chaturvedi, Pankaj Tripathi, Nawazuddin siddique

​@@hhhmo7328 it's not about nepotism it's about quality if you compare jawan with mission impossible you can see difference

Because the entrepreneurial spirit and the self-made man are an integral parts of the American dream. And the more sure they are of their own success, the harder they try to server the link to any form of support that would prove otherwise. It's nothing short of a sense of entitlement smdh

What an amazing take, I laughed and I'm nodding internaly

Cute you think they actually drive their own kids. They have servants that do that kind of stuff.

This is such an interesting observation. I think it’s absolutely a defense mechanism. The folks who allowed a relative to help them will never be able to say with perfect certainty that they would’ve made it on their own. They may be truly talented and worthy of their success, but they can’t ever be sure that’s why people love them. It must haunt them.

Nick Cage's uncle is the famous director,Francis Ford Coppola, Nick's father was a literature professor, who was successful in his own right within his field. Though, the whole Coppola family is full of artists, his aunt is Talia Shire, and cousin Jason Schwartzman (all those Wes Anderson movies)

this applies to music too

Well, it's actually a very bad advice. What people mean by that is to NOT WAIT on CHANCE and start doing your own stuff so that people can see your work. You don't HAVE TO DO IT, it's just better than waiting. It will not guarantee anything but still, you are "doing" what you like

Except for veteran actors, they should move on and make space for up and coming actors, like “Dolittle” should not have starred Iron Man and that was just one of the many bad decisions around that movie

This woman is a genius, everything she says is just so succinct and correct.

@@vlogily8043 the greed is insane! Why don’t these uber rich white people help lift up others?

Musicians were also lowly servants going back 150 years

Very interesting thanks

I feel the same way as you.

I wrote a whole album but can’t afford to get it produced. It cost a lot of money from music production to videos to photography and wardrobe aside from the locations I want to be at. I’m just trying to get thru day to day functions so yes I feel it for sure.

And it sucks because women can seemingly only become directors if they're connected to a famous man. Sofia Coppola being the biggest example but more recently the director of the Fear Street trilogy Leigh Janiak married to one of the Duffer brothers and Reminiscence directed by Lisa Joy is married to Christopher Nolan's brother which is even more sexist since it means women's only merits are being connected to men

Just look at charlie's angel😣

No rich woman wants to be a director. Too much work.

well that 4.4% is only for diretoring jobs and doesn't include other positions women got like acting and so on. How this got 1.6k likes surprises me bc the logic doesn't add up. I would say nepotism is doing a great job

The new fashion is each kid of a famous actor is now an actor or model. The series, movies are full of this famous kids. Lily Collins, Maya Hawke, Margaret Qualey, Kristen Stewart, daughter of Cindy Crawford, kids of Arnold, kids of Denzel Washington, kids of Will Smith, kids of Clint Eastwood, Bruce Willis daughter's, NOW Lilly Deep, etc etc etc etc...the list is only grow and grow. Seems that nobody of this rich kids have other interest in other careers and take the easy way to be "an actor" with the help or privilege of their parents. The sadly thing is the majority aren't prepared or have studied something related to acting instead many common people study years in academies to pursuit an acting career and they have work like waistress or something hoping an opportunity.

You got a link?

one of the reasons i adore jane fonda

was gonna comment this! thank u

tbf, Jane Fonda is old and established enough now to be able to say what she wants. Did she say that when she was young and just starting out? That would be bolder, as it might be taken to infer she had no real actual talent...

I fucken LOVE Jane Fonda

I was so confused by that scandal. People were like “omg I can’t believe these rich and powerful people are using their resources to give their children an advantage over the children of people with less power and influence” like that hasn’t been the status quo for the entirety of human history, lol

@@Aristochronic I wasn’t at all surprised that they cheated and that scandal really revealed the amount of people who also didn’t think that just being in a stable family is a huge step up for things like college admissions. They actually thought the playing field was fair as long as your parents aren’t breaking the law to give you an advantage. Things like having a bed, reliable food, not having to work while also in high school, not even including exclusive private schools as tutors, SAT prep cram courses, and expensive hobbies are all completely legal and still stack the deck.

One of the most confusing and obvious "scandals" of all time. A former B-rate actress paid her child's way into school?! No way! :o

The way the US does College applications is totally different from some other countries, you handle your application, cover letter, some academic docs, it's all too subjective. While in some other countries it's through a written entrance exam, with objective questions, in an anonymizable form of test. A subjective form os application, like cover letter, interviews etc, it's easier for you to pick someone's son to be accepted.

@@yesthatsmycat9919 omg I hate that this not the norm

jumping in as an ex art student from melbourne- the amount of classism and racism in the system is insane. black students are held to such a different standard, and rich students get a free pass for pretty much anything. hate this shit man

the school i went to championed itself as being a historically aboriginal school but there is only white people in the staff. racism goes unpunished. as well as the way it pretended to be accessible to those with learning disabilities when it was one of the least understanding enviroments i had ever been in. ended up getting expelled when i became homeless, as i couldnt get there on time all the time. explained this to staff to no sympathy or even acknowledgement. love the arts!

Yeah, it’s the same in the music industry as well.

I just graduated from VCA with a BFA, can confirm. So many kids with successful parents basically get drooled over by professors lmao

Honestly same with most industries unfortunately. I’m a scientist and it happens constantly

it’s her total disregard of the fact that she made it to where she is and was able to make her first short film at 21, it premiered at Tribeca, and then got to pitch an incomplete script to HBO and thought she got all of those opportunities based on her “natural talent” and not her parent’s connections🙃

@@camdenhunt7565 More like Lena Dumbham

@@DreamItCraftIt she should legally change her name to that

@@brib6046 🤣

Literally

that's "girl boss" feminism for you.

The funny thing is, those same women in power will stop at nothing to tear down working class women and make their lives miserable. Female conservative politicians are a prime example.

hilarious

@@decoraqueena6413 Liberation of any kind never serves the interests of the powerful, regardless of gender.

Weirdly enough, woke feminism never makes me feel empowered. It usually makes me pissed off and embarrassed. And, yes, I happen to be a conservative-leaning woman who hates being told I only think the way I do because I'm brainwashed by the patriachy so do what we tell you without question. I'm not stupid people.

Bohemian lifestyle 😂 these people are insane

Thank you elaborating on this!! I was totally ignorant

Yes, and she is also a descendant of Guizot who was a famous French politician during the 19th century. Nepotism in this family is a tradition.

Note; pathe is also the biggest cinema franchise of the netherlands. Which is a whole 'nother country added into their milions

This made me cry 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

And that "bloodline" fetish is eerily reminiscent of fascist ideology...

It's not really weird at all. It's entirely human and normal. That doesn't mean it's good... but bloodlines being important legit just make sense when you think about how human philosophy has shifted over 1000s of years.

Is it that deep?

@@snazzydrew Yeah, centuries ago (and still today, but less so) your family lineage was the most important thing in your life. Even in the medieval ages, the book “Beowulf” has a whole theme about your family IIRC. And Christianity talks about ancestral sin.

I never thought about that…wow

I think the same!!! most of them are middle class who be able to find their own way to get famous! why would people need to gatekeep so bad??? As if hollywood industry is a royal family or something...

yes like what did hailey bieber do to deserve being there?

This right here! I always found it so haterish to not want influencers at met gala

Wait what? Do people who love nepokids not love these influencers? I thought they did for some stupid reason.

A lot of influencers are also children of rich and connected. It’s already become an arm of Hollywood.

This. As someone with very tame creative success, I feel like it's my duty to yell about my luck and tell people to become an electrician just in case. Working your ass off is no sure thing.

I love him

You can so often tell that successful comedians are so much more intelligent than actors or singers.

Real question, does Taylor Swift 's parents are in the entertainment industry??

yes. her parents basically bought the record company she signed with if I remember correctly. The woman is a legend, no doubt, but she had A LOT of help at the beginning

the 4 hazard brothers all play soccer at least 2 of them are a part of the Belgium national team.

@@potato5602 Yeah, and nobody would suggest that you can maintain that level without working really hard and being naturally talented. I don't know too much about the Hazards outside of Eden, but the people I was thinking about in the English game (your Lampards, your Rednapps) benefitted from getting into the best acadamies and junior teams at 4 or 5 years of age (there's a similar problem with drama schools mentioned briefly in the video too), the educational advantages start really young in some cases, and those just aren't options avalable to most people. To say nothing of just growing up ensconced in the industry (certainly not always a good thing for the individual child, in terms of mental health and wellbeing, etc.). But it's complicated and morally fraught, in general people like to emulate their parents: kids of doctors become doctors, the children of carpenters are more likely to become carpenters, Parents will generally encourage their kids to develop the skills that will make them proficent in those fields and not others. Conciously in some cases subconciously in others. As the video points out it's important to acknowedlge that phenomena exists, even if there's not anything obvious to do about that fact, just simply acknowledging a bias exists makes you less suspeptable to it. I guess it doesn't always work out that way though 'cos on the other hand you can get an Alan Carr from time to time.

And weirdly enough the medical field too

I don't know much about sport but I'm sure many there are people who have a lot of natural talent for sport can't pursue it because they can't afford training etc. also things like sports/acting see very few people succeed so many talented people may not want to pursue those careers because they need a safer option to support them and their family. unfortunately pursuing the arts/sports is a luxury

This made me think about F1, where it is absolutely impossible to get into racing at all, let alone make your way into F1 if your family isn't eyewateringly rich

Interesting fact

this makes me wanna learn german lol

It is more Like "Cousin Business"

You know that nepos means cousin or grandson??

@@Mukkki Nephew/niece/granson/granddaughter.

Shit, Phoebe is rich??? I didn’t know that 🤦🏽‍♀️

@@caraboo6812 a lot of British actors come from wealthy families that are lords, politicians attending private schools…….

@@caraboo6812 James McAvoy spoke about it in an interview once, that actors in the UK like him (who did not come from money), are REALLY rare.

@@caraboo6812 She's still a fantastic writer/actor. But essentially...yeah lol.

"the daughter of Michael Cyprian Waller-Bridge, founder of the electronic trading platform Tradepoint, and Theresa Mary, daughter of Sir John Edward Longueville Clerke, 12th Baronet" -Wikipedia

hiiiiii 🥰

😍

yes indeedy!!

Thank. Goodness.

legends supporting legends

Maybe you should express yourself more respectful about the article

@@Ryan-pg1tw ?? What do you mean

The article read like it was written by someone who got their job through nepotism and they are grappling with privileged guilt that we live in a socio-economic hellscape where meritocracy is only a lie the rich tell themselves so they can sleep at night.

@@Ryan-pg1tw how about no.

reminds me of people who don't think white privilege exists..

HUGE facts.

also a reason why i wouldn't watch the netflix show "maids" ,margaret qualley the super nepo baby trying to emulate what's in like to be lower class is unbearable to watch, it's the whole point of acting i know, but still unwatchable knowing in between two days of shooting that she attended the met gala dressed by chanel it's so cynical lol

They have this sense of entitlement that drives me crazy

Someone who didn’t have the same opportunities or connections as her would have to work just as hard if not more to get the auditions and roles that are handed out quite freely to her. What she’s really saying is she has to work just as hard as someone who started out from nothing to prove that she deserves it, or else she really wouldn’t deserve it, and we’d have the right to talk trash about her.

It is so sad that there is someone out there that can bring diversity and novel creative ideas to Hollywood, but that spot is being taken by an actor's relative who is bland af

AMEN 🥰🥰

so i googled her, and wtf her mom was in coranation street!!

And Lena's excuse seemed to be that because her mom is an artist, rather than someone in the entertainment industry, she didn't benefit at all from her connections. Like, anyone in the art world knows that if you achieve the level of success of someone like Laurie Simmons, you are regularly making connections/networking with power players in other fields, including (probably especially) the entertainment industry. She likely has major collectors in entertainment.

No wonder I thought throughout all Bridgeton serie that Daphne's actress was the weakest in the cast, very bland acting. And though the character wasn't that interesting to begin with, some actresses are able to put more personality to their roles, but not her in this case.

Honestly at this point I would be surprised if I heard Lena Dunham say something insightful. She's peak white feminist.

Yup!! Also that Emma Roberts impression is exactly how I expect her to sound 😭😭 I used to like her well enough but with her past actions & words she seems to be ... a bad person

I think you're talking about Sylvia Young's school, which is about 9k a term. The BRIT also has many famous alumni and is free. Most stage schools are expensive though. Speaking of Boyega, he attended an acting school (identity acting school) designed to improve opportunities for minority actors so some people in the industry are working to address inequality in education for actors (though this school is still expensive).

@@MadameCorgi yeah I have friends who went to Brit, but most don’t make it as far as the rich kids, and I saw a list, it’s not just the acting schools, it’s their primary and secondary education that’s expensive too (from 10 to 50k or so)

Yep. Just like how the schools in the hood are rated D or F. Studies have shown if the lower income/poor had more access to higher rates middle schools, high schools, etc. there's less mental health issues, higher graduation numbers, better grades, and so on. Yet it hasn't changed. It frustrates me because I see so much potential in my children & others in my neighborhood, but they're not able to show their talent because of the lack of extracurriculars, lack of money to get into stuff like that, and generally being held back by society because you're disability, poor or both. Black, White, Hispanic deserve the same rights as middle class, upper middle class and up. Obviously, you have to work hard for something as well, but I think many understand the gibberish I just wrote lol Much love to everyone ✨💛✨

@@BeyondBrii all the way from Kindergarten. see that is why i admire Kaluya and Boyega , its so few of them in there . they started super super small and got the smallest opportunity .

Gemma Arterton also talked about it in regards to having a "middle class" accent and stuff, also Kaya Scodelario

True, mind you there is a plant called The Grass Tree which is neither grass nor a tree. (Native to Western Australia, properly known as the balga and quite a fascinating plant).

@@Etsba_ Australia is really the best country. I wanna visit so badly.

their realism often feels like cosplaying

yes!!! theres something about thw specific examples of those two actors from that after movie tara mentioned -both of them feel like they look like a dozen other actors. they have such bland CW-pretty faces that i wonder how anyone manages to recognize them

Wow, that last sentence, i might have to steal that for an essay, phenomenal take!

@@eggo9543 feel free to quote, although you may want to check if someone else has come up with the term "cultural endogamy*

@@sandras.papallona1730 definitely will!!

Whoaaa

As much as I love Maya and can't imagine Robin as anyone else, to this day I still have the feeling that the role should go to someone else

I'm so sorry... This was such a big chance for your friend... If she's still looking for roles or ever does, I hope this doesn't happen...

this is so sad :(

And I think Mayas brother will be playing in the new season this is so crazy

Big yikes.

Yeah, I think by the last show of series Beverly Hills 90210, Tori Spelling could sorta, kinda act ........ a little.

Parasite (korean movie)

Hmm... Sia's movie where she cast a family friend as a disabled person cz the disabled actor "couldn't handle it"?

It's not laziness in casting. It's about not wanting to spend time indoctrinating a newbie to the expectations and silence implicit in the industry. Kids that grow up being taught to comply know better than to know better. *skipped a word

@@maebandy this is a good point

This is a thing in a ton of industries, for instance in alot of bars, the managers/owners inherited their roles or the bars themselves, the supervisors r their friends and the minimum wage staff do all the duties and have alot of responsibilities and can work 10-20 years in a place and never be considered for a supervisory role because the manager and/or owner always knows someone who needs a favor.

It's easy to have positive thoughts if you don't have to worry about money, and especially if failure isn't going to ruin you.

Wow 😭🤣👌

It’s *the secret* … The (brainwashing)power of the “law” of attraction.

EXACTLY!! Some people don't realize how privileged they truly are.

Oh yeah, I hate this ''positive thoughts'' BS.... Nauseating

People like that don’t even *think* about those people as people. They see them as “the help.” :(

@Elluminals Amy Shumer is a perfect example. A very poor comedian but still has a career, even after she stole jokes from other people.

@@loverrlee Don't think we can generalize like that though.

The thing about Lily is....she's so boring. I can't talk shit about Laura Dern, Jeff Bridges or Jamie Lee Curtis. But nepo babies like Lily? Yawn.

Who is her connection, Chuck Schumer?

I can’t even imagine myself defending the billions of taxpayer dollars going into his sorry ass every day. He recently wrote a sinister tweet about Bernie Sanders because Bernie wanted him to pay his taxes. He is a walking, talking jerk.

@@charisma-hornum-fries you mean the "I keep forgetting you're still alive" tweet?

Or Bezos's parents giving him a couple hundred thousand, clearly you have money if you can invest that much in your kid's endeavor. You need money to make money a lot of the time, and we like to ignore that a lot of successful people come from money. Then people scream, "but they took risks!", yea, because they could. If Amazon didn't work out, Bezos could have gone back to making good money doing what he was doing before, he could have lived with his parents who clearly have money, etc. Someone of limited means taking a risk means they could end up homeless or unable to feed themselves. People will just bend over backwards making excuses for these people because they want to believe that could be them when it can't be, not without the money and connections.

The Elon musk thing blows my mind every time I hear it 🤦🏻‍♀️

Thank you. Every politicans kids for example. Look at Hunter Biden?! He's a literal woman abusing crackhead who destroys everything he touches with receipts to prove it all. He still is handed huge companies to run and make money off when he should be in jail!

Literally everything under capitalism is nepotism. Before capitalism it also was reality, but the difference was that they never claimed it wasn't, it was "gods will". Now, it's a worldwide schizophrenia, a delusion everyone has that such things don't exist anymore, when it's the same but with everyone being deluded about it

It annoys me that all high school based movies/shows are based on high schools of 50 years ago because that's the last generation that went to a regular school.

Jim carrey lived in a caravan

@@lord_xylozdoomsday959 ditto

How is it offensive? It’s called acting. Do you think actors who have or have had cancer are the only ones who should play cancer patients? Only people who are descended from royalty can play royalty? I understand being frustrated with nepotism but being offended by literally the whole point of acting is laughable.

its literally their job

When I tried to be a filmmaker (sci-fi, horror and mythological films was what I wanted to do) a producer's daughter told me straight up "You're a young black guy with lots of great ideas, you'll be lucky if you get a small black comedy sitcom to help write" when I was 19 my senior year, told me all I needed to know

Unrelated but u look fine asf, king 👑

@@thepubknight6144 self-fulfilling prophesy though, right? They're trying to keep you out by telling you straight-up "you don't have a place here".

@@jaimes6152 Yes if they can stop you from even trying or getting in and possibly learning any industry secrets you can learn to start your own thing like Tyler Perry they will resort to it as the first line of defense/gatekeeping.

@@thepubknight6144 This breaks my heart honestly. I always wonder how art would be if these "industries" allowed talented people to use their creativity to the fullest extent

So much this.

Rich people who pretend they were ever working class (which is ALOT of them) is my pet peev. Its insulting

Ah yes, the "I got my life together by building an at home gym and having daily sessions with a personal trainer". Yes, yes. Easyyyy.. /s

YAAAASSS! I saw they are making Station Eleven series on HBO. The book was terribly written IMO and it recieved awards. Like wtf I could've written that.

Find a rich husband.

Sounds like a chip on the shoulder.

@@bluepanther1013 she's certainly the most natural of the bunch but has absolutely had slight alterations. Her jaw, nose and cheeks are all different, more refined. I'm not against plastic surgery, & all of them look great. But there is literally a quote from some thinkswhotheyare designer that says "I don't appreciate models who have that face that literally anyone could buy." And then puts Bella right in his runway 💀 like, y'all ain't even slick anymore, you're just tacky.

@@bluepanther1013 makeup doesn't make the bulbous tip of your nose magically disappear. I'm sorry that you believe the PR 💀

sensei aishitemasu talks about it all the time. She had a live discussion talking about how a lot of actors come from wealthy families who recommended them for roles and even paid for their careers. Like Benedict Cumberbatch being super crazy wealthy and his family historically owning a bunch of land and enslaved people. Which is why so many Black people with roots in the Caribbean having the last name Cumberbatch. Or Emma Stone’s wealthy dad. Also there’s been a big discussion about Billie and Fineas Eilish and their established parents.

every famous model in the past 40 years has had at least some plastic surgery. Though your point still stands that bella, gigi and Kendall are all nepotism babies.

Gigi has never had any plastic surgery lmao

Or even if they DID audition. Like she said in the vid, the hardest part is getting into the audition. I love when people say that some crappy actor was the best one for the part, when they’re not even the right race. Meanwhile, someone I was in my BFA program would have killed in that part. But my classmate couldn’t get an audition

This. I think their worldview would crumble if they figured out who got them where.

Look genius, stabilished actors don't make castings at all.

@@jeyneo.8924 look genius, there are more than “stablished” actors involved in projects. And how do you think people get “stablished” in the first place? They have access to auditions earlier in their career.

@@rachelmdiamond Of course genius and once they do it and get a important part you have projects without auditioning. Maybe because you are a director's fetish actor, maybe because someome saw you in a project... Saying you are not fitted because you didn't audition is stupid. They cast you because of that exactly.

Not really but nice try lib

ace trainer_zack not a lib but nice try edgelord

i’m so sorry you don’t deserve that. i hope one day i will see your name on the big screen if there’s a twist of fate.

I get what you feel. It’s absolutely soul crushing. There’s not one celeb today that doesn’t have some form of a connection

I’m so sorry! Please continue to perfect your craft…I hope your time comes!

I’m sorry and I wish you the best

if moneys tight: most big theatres will have a free/pay what you can evening for their shows. and try to get an agent. think about joining the union later down the road.

Wait didn't Rosamund attend badminton and the tuition per semester is five thousand pounds - seven thousand pounds??? (Imo that's cheap and not really an "elite" school)

@@ailsa7471 Most ordinary people couldn't afford to spend £15,000-£21,000 on their child's school fees.

"boils my piss" I love that 🤣 I'm American but I'm going to adopt that phrase

@@hannahwebster5606 no, what I meant is, is that I don't think badminton is an "elite" school bc for that tuition fee it's kinda too cheap to be one. The average tuition for an "elite" school is around 20 thousand pounds a minimal and that's before dormitory which is around five thousand pounds, which is way overpriced (and no hate to badminton and the students attending, it's a rlly good school)

Made me think of when Adele was on Graham Norton and asked the other actors, who were talking about who they went to school with, if those were all private schools :D

do you know what her connections were?

@@kaylamolkner4253 she was the daughter of a famous exhibition shooter and armorer. She had only done one armor job before this movie but was the head of this one.

@@VictoriaWhitlock that’s so horrible ew

what the FUCK? that makes the case ten times worse somehow

??? I hope she goes to prison for gross negligence???

I’m sorry. I bet you are extremely talented and I hope you all the best in the future!

I hope you get a better chance to do what you love someday. In the meantime, what are the names of your movies? I’d be interested in watching them.

Honestly, so few people even acknowledge their privilege.

Excuse me, but what exactly do you suggest they do "next"? Not to sound antagonistic, but you can't expect every famous actor to, like, found a charity for social connections or something do you?

@@irismentor7985 You're thinking in extremes. No one expects every actor to each make their own charity, but it would be nice if they promoted actors who didn't already have connections, give roles to minorities, create opportunities for nobodies to get noticed, etc.

@@guy-sl3kr Sure, I would give my roles up for someone more unfortunate as well :D Love that everyone is a hero on the internet.

@@esikazemese Who said anything about giving up roles? This isn't a zero sum game lol you don't have to fire someone for every minority you hire.

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 Especially the part about creative jobs vs "real" jobs (namely doctor, lawyer, HR employee, etc.)

Even if parents/direct relatives believe it's a valid career choice, doesn't necessarily guarantee success - my parents have always been supportive of my creative pursuits (music and writing specifically). The kicker is that both of them don't actively work in the creative field and so there are very few connections to lean on - the people who can rely on nepotism start at least a mile ahead of everyone else, and the rest of us are damn lucky if we can catch up.

Yup. I made a similar point in another comment. Creative fields are kind of a bubble.

Money also plays a big role. Having a parent who can cover your rent while you focus on your art is invaluable. Many talented people have to step away from creative pursuits because they can’t afford to keep taking time away from their day job for auditions. I don’t judge anyone for accepting help but it’s sad see average people beat themselves up for “not making it” when the successful people they compare themselves to are actually being fully supported by rich families.

@@khloeknievel3874 So true - I live with my parents which I know is a financial help, but I still work 30-40 hours/week to pay nearly other bill except rent (food, gas, insurance etc.). Also, while I'm incredibly grateful my parents are willing to support me in this way, we have a better relationship when I don't have to see them every day and I have a little space from them. I've crunched the numbers so many times and I come up with the same answer: the stars would have to align 10 times over for me to find a job that paid enough and had a flexible schedule so I could move out and fully support myself, let alone leave time for my creative pursuits 🤯🤬😤

That is because modeling is basically sexual exploitation and westerners are aware of this and do not play the game. I was scouted twice to be a model and I just said “no” and walked away. Yeah I’m pretty, I’m not impressed that someone thinks I could model and I have no interest. Eastern Europeans are very poor and will be impressed and do prostitution for opportunities. Westerners are smarter and no hard up for money- so the people who are protected from the creeps will work in the industry. It is only fair.

@@ThingsILikke My point was that people from famous families get these big campaigns very quickly and do not go through the hardships that other people do. They have an advantage. And let’s be honest, if they didn’t have the famous connections many of them would not be models.

@@NIKKI.KO99 yes I know- with modeling in particular though no one should be doing it. It’s all sexual exploitation.

I think most of those people you mentioned didn’t get plastic surgery, but were blessed with good looks and good industry connections

@@sunbeam42 Kendal Jenner and Bella Hadid have a 100% had plastic surgery.

Great example. Also, the iconic eyebrows are fooling no one.

YES. That show fits perfectly with the example she named. Also it's genuinely good comedy.It's one of my faves of all time.

I think that’s a great example. I can respect the Levy’s for three reasons. First, they used the family vibes to create a show for themselves that reflects natural familial chemistry, and they never tried to pretend like it wasn’t a fun family project. Second, they also did a great job hiring genuinely talented but unconnected actors for the main and secondary cast who probably wouldn’t have gotten a big break otherwise. Third, they made good use of a well established actress Catherine O’Hara by giving her a juicy role she could really shine in, despite the huge lack of good roles for women of a certain age. While Catherine wasn’t a nobody and was probably getting some steady work, she certainly wasn’t given a ton of opportunities to both pay the bills and flex her incredible chops. So if going to leverage the privileges you were born into for your own benefit, at least be like Dan Levy and make sure to use your success and privilege to lift up others, improve diversity, tell unique stories, and be honest about your journey.

@@Updog89 yes! I was gonna add that Dan Levy and his father really helped Annie Murphy (who played Alexis) get her big break as she was on the verge of quitting the industry.

@@solitaireseries I’d heard something similar! So grateful that they introduced her to the world, she is such a gem.

Oh, I think there are things we can do. Investigate. Report. Satirize. Make our own movies. To start with.

They are still humans who can empathize though, in fact acting requires more empathy than usual.

@@EvaSofie you'd be surprised how many actors outside of acting don't put in the effort to empathize with others at all. Acting as a bare necessity for these kinds of folks is just knowing how to "pretend" feeling emotions and to then time them well.

@@thatsdisco The best actors do.

clint eastwood and jonah hill can direct they ass of. Mid 90s is fire.

When they said "put your stuff on the internet, get it out there", I thought, well, creating content is a very different job (yes, a job) than acting. How are you going to ask an actor to learn the ropes of social media, BESIDES writing, filming, editing, etc?. People need to realize that those two activities don't go hand in hand.

And it's why music really sucks these days.