Emma Roberts Says ‘Fame’ Isn’t ‘My Goal’ After Watching Aunt Julia Roberts and Nepo Baby Critics Are Harder on Women: ‘Why Is No One Calling Out George Clooney?’
variety.comZack Sharf Digital News Director Emma Roberts appeared on the “Table for Two” podcast (via Vanity Fair) and was asked whether becoming a “massive movie star” was a priority for her when she decided to follow in the career footsteps of her father, Eric Roberts, and her aunt, Julia Roberts, and become an actor.
Not quite. Emma said that watching aunt Julia become an A-list superstar as a kid showed her how scary that level of fame can be. “I saw very up close what that really looks like with my aunt Julia,” Roberts said. “It’s obviously fun and it’s great, but there is a part of it that’s really scary.
So I’ve wanted to kind of carve my own path…Fame has never been the goal, because fame at a certain level is kind of scary.” “Even in my later teens, I was like, I never want my fame to outweigh my work,” she continued. “Because there’s nothing scarier to me than being so famous that you’re never left alone, but also you’re not getting good jobs.
And that was kind of happening to a lot of people when I was in my teens and early 20s. I never wanted that to happen to me.” As the relative of two famous actors, Roberts also often has to contend with nepo-baby accusations in her career.
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