Rob Lowe: ‘Nepo baby’ is the new ‘Brat Pack’: ‘I’ve been there for both of them’
nypost.comtold Variety, in an interview published Thursday. “I understand the curiosity and appreciate it, but I don’t have the same kind of intensity around it.
Nobody thinks twice when your kid joins the family plumbing business, or becomes a painter or an architect or a dentist, or becomes a second-generation doctor,” he explained. “So I don’t really see the novelty of it, but I understand it.”“Nepo baby” is a term that the outlet coined in 2022, referring to actors who had parents also in showbiz — such as Maya Hawke, Jack Quaid, Wyatt Russell, Kaia Gerber, or Rob Lowe’s son, John Owen. “Brat Pack” is a term that the magazine also coined decades earlier, in the ’80s, referring to the group of actors in movies such as “The Breakfast Club” and “St.
Elmo’s Fire,” including Lowe, Emilio Estevez, Molly Ringwald, Demi Moore, Ally Sheedy, Judd Nelson, Anthony Michael Hall and Andrew McCarthy.As shown in the Hulu documentary “Brats” (now streaming), members of the “Brat Pack” had a fraught relationship with that term. “It created the perception that we were lightweights, that we didn’t take it seriously,” Estevez said in the doc.
Referring to his two sons, John Owen Lowe, 29, an actor who stars in the Netflix show “Unstable” alongside Rob, and Matthew, 31, Rob told Variety, “I happily opened doors for Johnny in this business and my son Matthew, who’s an attorney.
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