Sean Penn and Robin Wright’s Son Doesn’t ‘Give a S—‘ If People Think He’s a Nepo Baby: ‘I’m Not’
thewrap.comYahoo! Entertainment when asked if he was concerned with being labeled as a “nepo baby,” a term implying that some children of celebrities are only successful because of their famous parent’s nepotism.
Penn, who stars in “Devil’s Peak” alongside his mother, recalled discussing the topic while on set for “Let Me Go the Right Way,” a 2022 short film that critics tagged as a “nepotism film” due to its involvement with director Destry Allyn Spielberg, the daughter of Steven Spielberg, and writer Owen King, the son of Stephen King.“It came up when we were shooting,” Penn said. “Destry had shown me an article calling it a ‘nepotism film’ and I just laughed about it.
I was like, ‘They’re just pissed that they’re not in the movie!’ And then Ben Stiller backed us up, and he also comes from an actor family.
So I really don’t care — I’m never going to see those people.”When word of the short film’s casting circulated across the trades and social media in 2021, The Black List founder Franklin Leonard pointed out the nepotism that could have been at play in the production, tweeting “Hollywood’s a meritocracy, right?”Hollywood's a meritocracy, right?
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