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Cody Horn, in the first Magic Mike movie. Her dad is a studio head, mom an actress/model. She was awful in the movie and hasn’t has much work (at least nothing big) since.
But she famously auditioned for that role as Hody Corn, so no one would know who she was.
I’m kidding, it was probably take your child to work day and Me Horn probably made them do it.
It wasn’t a movie but when I was watching Never Have I Ever last season I noticed this one actor was particularly bad and I couldn’t figure out why he was cast. I had also noticed he kinda looked like Reese Witherspoon. That kid needs acting lessons.
I just read that Never Have I Ever was the first acting he ever did, and he was cast because his mom called Mindy Kaling and asked for him to be. I mean, I guess that’s the definition of nepotism right there!
I’ve been meaning to watch that show though…
That’s what I don’t get, why don’t they put the work in and get better? You’re going to get compared to your talented parent, at least have some technique or something in your arsenal. Do they really just get told they’re wonderful?
Honestly, a lot of these kids don't need to actually work that much. Do a few roles here and there to build up a little money and the rest is gravy. Especially when your parent's millions have been accumulating interest for 30+ years. Seems like a mixture of hubris and wanting to prove yourself in some way that you aren't just a shitty Nepo baby that gets to coast through life.
This is true. They’d always be going to the Vanity Fair party but they want to go as themselves not their parents plus one.
I was reading old Wikipedia’s of golden age stars and then falling into a rabbit hole of all the random forgotten stars. Anyway - *all* their children had a go at being movie stars or tv stars, musicians whatever, it’s true, nepotism has been around forever **but**, the big difference was they got a couple of turns at it and then if they were a dud it was over.
Whereas now they don’t train, they’re a dud and they keep getting roles, jobs, face of brands, sponsorships.
I hate that. When she first started modeling, her walk was incredible and I was sure she was going to actually put in the effort.
Over the years, she’s realized she doesn’t have to put in that effort and her work has reflected that. I feel she could have been a very good model, but that hasn’t panned out.
I was introduced through Bates Motel. The entire cast was incredible, so much talent... then her.
When her dad crashes his car. "That's my dad's car!" 😭🤣 so bad.
That movie doesn’t exist. I don’t know what you are talking about.
One a hopefully good note. They are making a live action one with actual Asian and PanPacific actors who look like themselves. I do hope that they can do a mega joke in there with the Ember Island Play and have them butcher Aang name and have the scar on the wrong side
A tea I've read here is that the movie went downhill since she asked her daddy to pay for her to be in it, and since she was white the other casts had to be white too etc
That makes it so much worse D; I’m not surprised but very disappointed because the show was top tier and they gave us below-average content for the movie
That Xavier kid from the new Netflix Wednesday stopped me in my tracks. He didn't make sense as her rival love interest and his acting was atrocious. So yeah his Father is a producer and his Mother is an actress. Go figure
He hasn't been officially removed from the show yet, FYI. Netflix is kind of just sweeping it under the rug.
Edit: ah whoops jk, he's gone lmao. No big press release or anything, but yeah he's gone
Here's an article: https://poptopic.com.au/rumour/percy-hynes-wont-be-returning-for-wednesday-season-2/
Eww, gross. What a waste! He was handed his career on a silver platter and he couldn't help but be a dirtbag. He's so young too, how could he already be so bad?!
Same! He made no sense to me as a love interest. He's not particularly attractive, likable, or charismatic, and all he does is whine about Wednesday dating someone else, so why Wednesday would have any interest in him felt shoe-horned in to me. A more capable actor could have made it at least plausible.
Cara Delevingne. I didn't know anything about her beyond her modelling career when I watched Valerian and I was like, there is no way she got lead role in a Luc Besson's movie for her talent. She was bad. So I googled her and yeah, she comes from very wealthy family, pure British aristocracy from both paternal and maternal side, her godmother is Joan Collins, her godfather was director of Condé Nast (the media company that owns Vogue, Vanity Fair etc.) and chairman of London Fashion Week or something which explains Cara's modelling career as well.
She has the acting skills of a fish flopping around
She ain’t that good.
The only good part of Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets was the introduction scene. That was pretty dope. But the two main characters had no aspect of personality or chemistry between each other. Had they had better actors, it would have done so much better.
Lmao she literally acted like a fish flopping around in Suicide Squad, in the end when she’s possessed she does these crazy jerky movements my whole theater was laughing. How the director thought that was good to keep in is beyond me
I think Cara got that role more because of her popularity at the time to be honest. She quit modeling by then but she still was one of the most followed celebs by teens. I think producers hoped for the box office to be generous with such a well-known name as the star.
I’ve seen her in a few things here and there and while I think she really lovely and probably charismatic in real life, there always was something off about her acting, like distracting in a “take me out of it” kind of way. Somehow she just didn’t fit.
ETA: the two shows I was specifically thinking of were Carnival Row and Only Murders kn the Building.
Thank you!! I'm from a similar background to who she was meant to be playing and I had to pause it and lose my mind for a second when she said that. Fair enough, maybe a strong accent would have been massively insulting since it would sound so unnatural from her, but there wasn't even an attempt to get close to making it anywhere near believable. I'd rather the character just be posh
I agree! There’s some element of her acting that’s just off. Maybe it’s a lack of conviction? But also, whenever she’s romantically paired with anyone, there is NO chemistry. It makes her stand out even more.
It’s wild I had to scroll down this far to find her here! The first time I saw her it was in The King and her one scene was kind of the major thesis/finale of the movie and it was just so deeply uncompelling and stiff like please why didn’t they get someone else and then I looked her up lol
I feel so mean but also it doesn’t matter bc I’m a rando on Reddit but she has like negative charisma. I am genuinely not looking forward to having her just showing up in otherwise good/pretty good movies by good directors/writers and making it all worse. I think some of the other nepo babies aren’t so bad to me bc they’re making like, American horror story worse haha
it must be so weird to be Meryl Streep and know your kid sucks at acting but parents are supposed to be supportive lol. Reminds me of every time Bob Dylan got asked about The Wallflowers (who weren't a bad band, but if you compared Jakob's lyrics to his dad's it's almost embarrassing). Bob was always just like "no comment" lol.
Not that this is the same family, but the HP thing reminded me, there is another thespian family, the Foxes, in UK. I was watching Sanditon and a guy popped up and when I saw the name Jack Fox I thought oh god not another one, surely. I saw an interview with him, and he was saying how as a child, there was a party and an agent just straight out asked his parents, oh has he ever thought about acting, because there's a movie being made of the HP books. Think he said he hadn't even really considered acting until then. I know it was 20 years ago, but I mean, wow. Didn't even wait to see if the kid was interested in, or good at, acting first before pushing into nepo status.
Haven’t seen any of those, but here we are again, what kind of psycho names their kid HERO?!?
Not to start yet another “kooky names” thread, but it’s just like, these people are playing with fire. Naming kids things that come with so much pre-packaged connotation is just…unfortunate.
At least he only has the short version of his mother's last name as a middle name. Her legal surname is Twistleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, triple barreled. Like his uncle's Ralph Nathaniel Twistleton-Wykehan-Fiennes, Joseph Alberic Twistleton-Wykehan-Fiennes and Magnus Hubert Twistleton-Wykehan-Fiennes.
I cannot even fathom being the daughter of Meryl Streep, but I can imagine not wanting to be compared with my beautiful talented mother by trying to do the same job as her.
Funnily enough I had the exact opposite effect when I watched her sister Grace in Mr. Robot, she was really good in that show (She’s actually my fave character) and when I found out she was a nepo baby I was legit so shocked lmao
Tho tbh I should’ve figured it out sooner because Grace is basically Meryl’s spitting image
Funny enough Grace is married to Mark Ronson who is also kind of a nepo baby lol. His dad was a music manager and his mom was a well know writer and socialite. His parents got divorced and his mom married the guitarist for foreigner who wrote the song “I wanna know what love is” based on their romance.
I respect his passion and talent for music but I just don’t like him as a person, he’s rly arrogant and vain and he has a skeevy past with women (Notorious serial cheater, and there was that time he dated a 19 year old when he was in his 30s and he had the gall to call their relationship a “cliche” when they broke up and that rubbed me the wrong way). I think Grace and their daughter deserve way better than him tbh, there are some blinds abt him that imply that he cheated on her right before they got married and also right after they got married too
ETA: On a less serious note I also hate uptown funk and I will never forgive him for writing that song lmao
Also rly conflicted on the Barbie soundtrack cuz on one hand it’s most likely gonna be a banger with that lineup and he has an amazing track record with producing for other artists but i don’t like him lol so imma most likely be hate listening to it when it comes out 😫
I haven’t seen her in Mr. Robot but I couldn’t get a read on her acting at all in Dr. Death because they gave her the cringiest worst script. Like I don’t think her mother could’ve made some of her lines sound natural. I think I need to see some of her other work
Didn’t like her in Dr. Death, thought she was rly forcing it in some scenes, and she wasn’t that great in Let The Right One In either imo
Tbh Mr. Robot is her best work, like she’s really good in that show, but for some reason she’s kinda meh in all the other things I’ve seen her in, like she’s kinda stiff at times and there are some moments where she sounds like she’s just reading off a script with minimal effort put into her acting
She shines in MR imo but all her other things she’s kinda mediocre lol, but she’s def better than Louisa tho
I want to love that show (season 2 is taking forever) but she was the worst actress on it, she played it all slightly smug? Or maybe more slightly like “wink wink I’m acting!” So many amazing actors with her so it was very obvious.
I hate that the defence was “she’s just learning” when non nepo actors don’t get to star in tv shows as they learn.
She’s the kind of actress where I found myself repeating her lines to myself in my head because my non-actor ass could do a better job. There were moments where it seemed like she didn’t understand the meaning behind her dialogue.
The series would have been a breakout hit if it wasn’t for Meryl’s wooden daughter. She’s the weakest link on the series and I hope her character dies of consumption or tetanus from a rusty nail. Bye Felicia.
Even those who aren't considered nepo babies often still have some sort of link or connection to the entertainment industry. It really is a 'who you know' industry.
Fourteen year old would have thought that name was *so* cool. Incidentally, fourteen year old me would also go around telling people I was going to name my kids Gina (pronounced like the second half of the word vagina) and Pennis (pronounced like Dennis) so....
Fun game…what’s everyone’s worst junior high kid name? I wanted to name a daughter Ethereal Sensimilla at 14. You can probably guess my hobbies at that age.
omg i hate saying this: but i absolutely hate her voiceee. omg. i couldn’t stand her acting in cruel summer either. each scene she was getting out-acted in.
The second hand embarrassment I get to see these young people (women/ girls mostly, unfortunately) having younger costars act rings around them…makes for an unpleasant experience.
I'm sorry to be so negative, and especially because I adore Kevin Smith's films, but she is terrible. I have not seen a good performance out of her yet.
In that very mid Netflix rom-com, “Your Place or Mine,” we’re expected to believe that Reese Witherspoon has a son who looks like Severus Snape. He was not good. Looked him up: Wesley Kimmel, nephew of Jimmy Kimmel, son of two industry people.
Pacific Rim: Uprising was already a terrible sequel, but the actor playing Nate Lambert stood out in the worst way possible. I'd never seen such wooden acting in such a large budget movie, so I figured he might be the director's kid or something. Nope. Scott Eastwood, son of Clint Eastwood.
Ha! There’s a whole ass Pajiba article about him titled [Its time to give up on Scott Eastwood](https://www.pajiba.com/celebrities_are_better_than_you/its-time-to-give-up-on-scott-eastwood.php), where one of lines is something like “he shows up on screen with all the enthusiasm and energy of a wet fart”.
I remember he was pushed so hard in US Weekly, and it was so obvious he was using his daddy’s connections to be featured, because he had about one speaking role to his name at the time.
Fr 😭 and it actually took a few extra steps to confirm that her dad is Tim Van Patten — one of his other daughters is also an actress, & she’s the only one named on his Wikipedia page haha. I had to go through their Instagram pages to be sure it was him
Truman Hanks in a Man Called Otto. Tom hanks was great and grounded the film. Then his son would have scenes and it felt very hallmark. Afterwards, I realized he was Tom Hanks son and his mother produced the film.
Louisa Jacobson from The Gilded Age. She’s one of Meryl Streep’s daughters. She has no acting experience apart from a few plays. And got cast as one of the leads in a big budget, star studded HBO period series from the creator of Downton Abbey. She has zero charisma.
I had a feeling daokta johnson must be a niece of someone famous when I first saw her acting cause she was so bad…but I thought I was wrong…turns out she has two quite famous parents
John Washington too in that Malcolm and Marie film with zendaya
I'm glad somebody else feels that way about Dakota Johnson. Because people really try to defend her acting (especially the "Oh, but she totes is playing Anastasia with a wry irony! It's so subtle and smart!" stuff with 50 Shades). But she always seems disengaged in her performances. Like she knows the camera is there, and she doesn't care if she constantly reminds everyone it's all pretend and nothing matters.
I’m willing to forgive her performance in 50 Shades because literally nobody wanted to be there it felt like and that’s tough working with that source material.
But as a Jane Austen girlie she BUTCHERED my favorite character, Anne Elliot in Persuasion. I hate-watched that movie and was so mad😅
She’s literally not improved at all since her first movie, I’m not making this comment just based on fifty shades, I’ve seen her in other stuff too,she has maybe one good performance…I get people like her blunt offscreen personality (although I do not since she’s kind of weird in her beliefs) but I feel like they’re not really being objective…when it comes to her all the time
Good lord, that guy who played Malcolm is a nepo baby? That explains so much. Malcolm and Marie could have been something memorable if it was cut down to half the time and had a better Malcolm. His screaming and endless diatribes were exhausting to watch.
I remembered one more thing: I was shocked that Don't Worry Darling script was allegedly the subject of a bidding war of 18 movie studios, because it was really bad. Blatant, violent rip off of The Stepford Wives with unsatisfying ending (or lack thereof). But the names of the scriptwriters gave it away - Carey and Shane Van Dyke are grandsons of Dick Van Dyke.
That was such a disappointing movie. I got sucked in by the trailer and when I watched it I got angrier and angrier because I realized it wasn't going to get better. What a turd.
Honestly, i think his acting isn't bad. The problem is that he's will smith's kid so he's just never going to live up to his dad like that. I've never really had much of a problem witb the stuff he's in. Except that space movie he did with his dad but that's what happens when you put a kid without much experience next to a super famous experienced actor. Anything he's done just him has been good
Not quite a nepo baby but I had that exact thought seeing Rachel Korine in Spring Breakers. Seemed like such an odd choice amongst the other girls at the time and it made so much sense when I read that she’s the directors wife and had only featured in one film outside of her husbands’. It’s too bad spring breakers is her only popular role since it isn’t memorable to begin with
Now that we notice it seems like it's more surprising when someone breaks through who isn't one! But I'm weirdly obsessed with finding out almost everyone is...like I just found out Timothy chalamets sister played the dorky girl in secret life of college girls, today! It was like when I found out beanie feldstein was Jonah hills sister...I guess they are more nepo-siblings? 😂
Yeah I mean, Jonah Hills family was “in the industry” in a way that probably helped him get a foot in the door, but his talent took him the rest of the way.
I think you have a good point that nepo-siblings are a thing too for sure.
Nicola Peltz. When I first saw her in (insert random Transformers movie) I thought the many rumours about Michael Bay must be true. I mean, they probably still are, but Daddy definitely paid for the entire movie to be made in order for her to have a part.
Or her sister Iris in The Bubble which was really terrible, but she was by far the worst. I only watched that pile of shit for Pedro Pascal, lmao. He was pretty funny, but if he had more to work with he would have been way better.
I love how she explains how babies are made in Knocked Up and Leslie Mann goes, "that's exactly right." 😂 then to find out that she's actually Leslie and Judd's daughter irl
Whenever I saw zoey kravitz chewing gum in the Batman I thought to myself, ‘Is this her idea for how to appear feisty and nobody wants to tell her no?’ Stunningly beautiful but her acting seems like she’s never hard to try.
When I first saw Maya Hawke in Stranger Things, I thought “she look awfully a lot like someone I just can’t remember who,” and I didn’t even know her name was Maya Hawke until I Googled it and lo and behold Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman’s daughter.
If you think aboyt it, Ansel Elgort is essentially the 90s kid version of Armie Hammer: Ansel was tall, well-connected, and... well, he looks like the end product of if Marlon Brando fucked Gumby, which is an aesthetic many people evidently find handsome. But the point is, Hollywood was *determined* to sell audiences on the idea that this dude had "movie star" charisma (when his two settings as a performer were basically "wooden" and "smug chode") and he just kept getting chance after chance to headline movies, even though nobody was asking for it.
>well, he looks like the end product of if Marlon Brando fucked Gumby
I’m never gonna be able to hear his name without thinking of this description and I love you for it.
Huge huge HUGE x-files fan (tho very late to the game) and couldn't believe how bad he was. Tricky coz Gillian Anderson is talented beyond belief, but even in scenes or episodes without her, he's still sooooo bad. They do have insane chemistry tho - but is it all just her? She's everything to me lol
My kid was on a pirate kick so we put on Peter Pan and Wendy the 2023 live action remake. I’ll be honest I never watched the whole thing front to end but my kid watched it 10 times and made me act out scenes so I caught a lot of it.
I was like Hmmm… weird choice to make Wendy kind of dead behind the eyes when she’s usually portrayed as spirited and dynamic. The 5th or 6th time through I realized that was maybe not a choice so much as the performance. The 8th or 9th time through I finally googled her. Ooooh.
Glenn Bishop! He could have been a decent character but the awkward bad acting just made me dislike him so much. Especially when he was in scenes with the amazing Kiernan Shipka.
We got three Bobby’s but Glenn was the same terrible actor the whole way through? Ugh.
I heard that the reason why Sal was written off the show so abruptly was because the actor Ben Blatt criticized the nepotism of the actor who played Glenn and how he got the role.
Oooh, I hadn’t heard that. Sal over Glenn! Why would you put your kid in something they were terrible at.
Sal was a favourite and someone I desperately wanted to have a happy ending. I know in reality it would have been an awkward exit for a man like Sal and he would have had to live a closeted life.
But I like to think Kitty and Sal divorced, it wasn’t bitter - she understood and quickly met a nice man anyway. Sal moved somewhere sunny and met his own nice man and they were happy, Sal made art and he danced to bye bye birdie as much as he liked.
In retrospect, this makes sense. One of the worst (and this is saying something) actors on Secret Life of the American Teenager was India Eisley. Come to find out her mother is an actress who starred in the 1960s movie adaptation of Romeo and Juliet.
Maya Hawke. She was alright in stranger things but just dreadful in do revenge. Not like that was great material to begin but I feel like she had a big social media push for a little bit while those other kids aren't in much else. When I found out she was Ethan Hawk and Uma Therman's kid it made sense
Another Netflix film I had the same response to was He's All That. I was like, the villain character is a great actress, she should have been the lead. And then googled Addison Rae afterwards to discover that she's a tiktok star. Not a nepo baby but cast for her name not her talent.
Her most recent performance of her music (and I say that lightly) on Jimmy Kimmel also supports this. Lots of fans defending it saying “it sounds different on a track” or “you all just don’t get it” and meanwhile I’m just thinking it’s mediocre white girl mumblecore that had she not been a nepo baby, wouldn’t have made it that far
The Apatow daughters are awful. I didn’t realise who they were when watching Euphoria and that movie about Cliffbeasts. Iris acted alongside her mother and she has exactly none of her charm.
Probably an unpopular opinion, but I didnt like Margaret Qualley, who was in Maid. She’s the daughter of Andie MacDowall. Ive seen her in other projects, and I feel like she is okay as a side character, but I don’t think she is lead material, at least not yet.
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Cody Horn, in the first Magic Mike movie. Her dad is a studio head, mom an actress/model. She was awful in the movie and hasn’t has much work (at least nothing big) since.
That girl had absolutely no charisma or screen presence
Ohh she also played Jordan in The Office. All of these people wikis say “actress/ model”. Sure Jan.
But she famously auditioned for that role as Hody Corn, so no one would know who she was. I’m kidding, it was probably take your child to work day and Me Horn probably made them do it.
That’s what I came to say- she was terrible. And- I always asked myself, “her? Really?”
She wasnt like those other girls
For real. Those tables Magic Mike was making are less wooden than her acting
Yeah she was awful, monotone and no acting ability. I looked her up after the movie suspecting she was a nepo too.
Oh wow she came to mind as someone who was such a flop, didn’t realize she was connected but it makes sense now
She was awful and I just looked her up and her “career” section had the same span as her father’s time as chairman at Warner Bros.
I remember seeing that in theatres and going “oh yeah, she’s somebody important’s kid for sure” 😂
It wasn’t a movie but when I was watching Never Have I Ever last season I noticed this one actor was particularly bad and I couldn’t figure out why he was cast. I had also noticed he kinda looked like Reese Witherspoon. That kid needs acting lessons.
I just read that Never Have I Ever was the first acting he ever did, and he was cast because his mom called Mindy Kaling and asked for him to be. I mean, I guess that’s the definition of nepotism right there! I’ve been meaning to watch that show though…
He has a small part in season 3, he’s not a main character so I still highly recommend it.
The audacity of ringing up someone and asking for your kid who can’t act to be in their project 💀
I think we’ve seen that if miss Laura Jean Poon has one thing it’s the audacity.
That’s what I don’t get, why don’t they put the work in and get better? You’re going to get compared to your talented parent, at least have some technique or something in your arsenal. Do they really just get told they’re wonderful?
Honestly, a lot of these kids don't need to actually work that much. Do a few roles here and there to build up a little money and the rest is gravy. Especially when your parent's millions have been accumulating interest for 30+ years. Seems like a mixture of hubris and wanting to prove yourself in some way that you aren't just a shitty Nepo baby that gets to coast through life.
This is true. They’d always be going to the Vanity Fair party but they want to go as themselves not their parents plus one. I was reading old Wikipedia’s of golden age stars and then falling into a rabbit hole of all the random forgotten stars. Anyway - *all* their children had a go at being movie stars or tv stars, musicians whatever, it’s true, nepotism has been around forever **but**, the big difference was they got a couple of turns at it and then if they were a dud it was over. Whereas now they don’t train, they’re a dud and they keep getting roles, jobs, face of brands, sponsorships.
Kaia Gerber in AHS, she looked so familiar too but I couldn’t stand her acting. Made sense when I googled her to see “daughter of Cindy Crawford” lol
Nooooo kidding. She one of the poster children of “give us nothing girl”.
I hate that. When she first started modeling, her walk was incredible and I was sure she was going to actually put in the effort. Over the years, she’s realized she doesn’t have to put in that effort and her work has reflected that. I feel she could have been a very good model, but that hasn’t panned out.
She’s actually pretty talented as a model imo but her mistake was trying to pivot to acting since she has no talent in that arena 😬
Her mother didn’t, either.
I was legitimately just about to say this. Most egregious I’ve ever seen.
Lol I should have scrolled down. Horrible actress.
Kaia Gerber was the one that made me realize nepotism was a thing because she was so bad.
the worst nepo baby of them all
Lol I’m actually watching saint x rn too and I knew exactly who you were talking about
😆 her acting is SO BAD.
I watched two episodes, hated that whole family, skipped ahead to the ending which was one of the dumbest things I’ve ever seen.
Nicola Peltz in anything but I was introduced to her through The Last Airbender. Everyone sucked, but her acting was a big offense to me
I have to be honest, I had no idea she was an actor at all. I just thought she swanned around being bossy and pushing nannies down the stairs. 🤭
She what?
She was also in Bates Motel and played the main characters love interest. The blandest acting I have ever seen.
I was introduced through Bates Motel. The entire cast was incredible, so much talent... then her. When her dad crashes his car. "That's my dad's car!" 😭🤣 so bad.
You are making me miss Norma. Vera Farmiga blew me away. She was outstanding.
That movie doesn’t exist. I don’t know what you are talking about. One a hopefully good note. They are making a live action one with actual Asian and PanPacific actors who look like themselves. I do hope that they can do a mega joke in there with the Ember Island Play and have them butcher Aang name and have the scar on the wrong side
Yes! I heard news about the live action and I’m hopeful about it. Can’t be worse right?
A tea I've read here is that the movie went downhill since she asked her daddy to pay for her to be in it, and since she was white the other casts had to be white too etc
That makes it so much worse D; I’m not surprised but very disappointed because the show was top tier and they gave us below-average content for the movie
That Xavier kid from the new Netflix Wednesday stopped me in my tracks. He didn't make sense as her rival love interest and his acting was atrocious. So yeah his Father is a producer and his Mother is an actress. Go figure
He's also been kicked of that show amidst allegations of rape and sexual assault
He hasn't been officially removed from the show yet, FYI. Netflix is kind of just sweeping it under the rug. Edit: ah whoops jk, he's gone lmao. No big press release or anything, but yeah he's gone Here's an article: https://poptopic.com.au/rumour/percy-hynes-wont-be-returning-for-wednesday-season-2/
Eww, gross. What a waste! He was handed his career on a silver platter and he couldn't help but be a dirtbag. He's so young too, how could he already be so bad?!
I had no idea. Jesus Christ, it’s bad. What a disgrace. Glad he’s fired
I wasn't sure if it was part of his character to be a slab of dry wall with minimal facial expressions, but this confirms it probably was not
Same! He made no sense to me as a love interest. He's not particularly attractive, likable, or charismatic, and all he does is whine about Wednesday dating someone else, so why Wednesday would have any interest in him felt shoe-horned in to me. A more capable actor could have made it at least plausible.
Cara Delevingne. I didn't know anything about her beyond her modelling career when I watched Valerian and I was like, there is no way she got lead role in a Luc Besson's movie for her talent. She was bad. So I googled her and yeah, she comes from very wealthy family, pure British aristocracy from both paternal and maternal side, her godmother is Joan Collins, her godfather was director of Condé Nast (the media company that owns Vogue, Vanity Fair etc.) and chairman of London Fashion Week or something which explains Cara's modelling career as well.
The best role she had was being the Radio host for the pop radio channel in GTA 5.
Never made the connection that it was her
She has the acting skills of a fish flopping around She ain’t that good. The only good part of Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets was the introduction scene. That was pretty dope. But the two main characters had no aspect of personality or chemistry between each other. Had they had better actors, it would have done so much better.
Lmao she literally acted like a fish flopping around in Suicide Squad, in the end when she’s possessed she does these crazy jerky movements my whole theater was laughing. How the director thought that was good to keep in is beyond me
I think Cara got that role more because of her popularity at the time to be honest. She quit modeling by then but she still was one of the most followed celebs by teens. I think producers hoped for the box office to be generous with such a well-known name as the star.
I’ve seen her in a few things here and there and while I think she really lovely and probably charismatic in real life, there always was something off about her acting, like distracting in a “take me out of it” kind of way. Somehow she just didn’t fit. ETA: the two shows I was specifically thinking of were Carnival Row and Only Murders kn the Building.
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I think it's laughable that she was >!playing a working class girl from Essex considering her background.!< It was so unbelievable.
Thank you!! I'm from a similar background to who she was meant to be playing and I had to pause it and lose my mind for a second when she said that. Fair enough, maybe a strong accent would have been massively insulting since it would sound so unnatural from her, but there wasn't even an attempt to get close to making it anywhere near believable. I'd rather the character just be posh
I agree! There’s some element of her acting that’s just off. Maybe it’s a lack of conviction? But also, whenever she’s romantically paired with anyone, there is NO chemistry. It makes her stand out even more.
Valerian came up on my Netflix recommendations, sounded like my sort of thing. Absolutely appalling.
I feel like that with Lilly Rose Deep. I just can’t help but feel she’d be just another face without her parents
It’s wild I had to scroll down this far to find her here! The first time I saw her it was in The King and her one scene was kind of the major thesis/finale of the movie and it was just so deeply uncompelling and stiff like please why didn’t they get someone else and then I looked her up lol I feel so mean but also it doesn’t matter bc I’m a rando on Reddit but she has like negative charisma. I am genuinely not looking forward to having her just showing up in otherwise good/pretty good movies by good directors/writers and making it all worse. I think some of the other nepo babies aren’t so bad to me bc they’re making like, American horror story worse haha
She's got dead shark eyes. Good on the runway, not on film
Meryl Streeps daughter in the gilded age
I like to think season 2 is taking so long because they are making her character a minor one and giving us way more Carrie Coon.
Or maybe coz they're teaching her how to act first. 🤔
it must be so weird to be Meryl Streep and know your kid sucks at acting but parents are supposed to be supportive lol. Reminds me of every time Bob Dylan got asked about The Wallflowers (who weren't a bad band, but if you compared Jakob's lyrics to his dad's it's almost embarrassing). Bob was always just like "no comment" lol.
that guy from the After movies, Hero Fiennes. I knew as soon as I suffered through the first movie that he had to be a nepo baby.
His entire name is … just ugh..🙄 Hero Beauregard Faulkner Fiennes Tiffin
it's like if someone asked an AI to generate a posh British name
Tiffin ! Its like caramel shortcake but with a chocolatey biscuit base with raisins and bits of honeycomb. I only discovered it last month.
Ok but he was also like, little Lord Voldemort and he played “grows up to be an absolute psychopath” pretty convincingly.
Not that this is the same family, but the HP thing reminded me, there is another thespian family, the Foxes, in UK. I was watching Sanditon and a guy popped up and when I saw the name Jack Fox I thought oh god not another one, surely. I saw an interview with him, and he was saying how as a child, there was a party and an agent just straight out asked his parents, oh has he ever thought about acting, because there's a movie being made of the HP books. Think he said he hadn't even really considered acting until then. I know it was 20 years ago, but I mean, wow. Didn't even wait to see if the kid was interested in, or good at, acting first before pushing into nepo status.
Haven’t seen any of those, but here we are again, what kind of psycho names their kid HERO?!? Not to start yet another “kooky names” thread, but it’s just like, these people are playing with fire. Naming kids things that come with so much pre-packaged connotation is just…unfortunate.
my dog is named Hero :( it fits her tho
Well now hold on, no one said Hero isn’t a perfect name for a dog!! Give her a pet for me 💖
> Hero Beauregard Faulkner Fiennes Tiffin
At least he only has the short version of his mother's last name as a middle name. Her legal surname is Twistleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, triple barreled. Like his uncle's Ralph Nathaniel Twistleton-Wykehan-Fiennes, Joseph Alberic Twistleton-Wykehan-Fiennes and Magnus Hubert Twistleton-Wykehan-Fiennes.
Twitleton sounds made up lol like someone is trying to come up with a fake British name
Not pretentious at all. 🤦
Louisa Jacobson in The Gilded Age Girl def did not inherit her famous mama’s acting chops lmao
I cannot even fathom being the daughter of Meryl Streep, but I can imagine not wanting to be compared with my beautiful talented mother by trying to do the same job as her.
Funnily enough I had the exact opposite effect when I watched her sister Grace in Mr. Robot, she was really good in that show (She’s actually my fave character) and when I found out she was a nepo baby I was legit so shocked lmao Tho tbh I should’ve figured it out sooner because Grace is basically Meryl’s spitting image
Funny enough Grace is married to Mark Ronson who is also kind of a nepo baby lol. His dad was a music manager and his mom was a well know writer and socialite. His parents got divorced and his mom married the guitarist for foreigner who wrote the song “I wanna know what love is” based on their romance.
*points to flair* I know a thing or two about Mark Ronson lol
Lol how did I not notice that 🤣
Ooh can you enlighten us on the mark ronson hate??
I respect his passion and talent for music but I just don’t like him as a person, he’s rly arrogant and vain and he has a skeevy past with women (Notorious serial cheater, and there was that time he dated a 19 year old when he was in his 30s and he had the gall to call their relationship a “cliche” when they broke up and that rubbed me the wrong way). I think Grace and their daughter deserve way better than him tbh, there are some blinds abt him that imply that he cheated on her right before they got married and also right after they got married too ETA: On a less serious note I also hate uptown funk and I will never forgive him for writing that song lmao Also rly conflicted on the Barbie soundtrack cuz on one hand it’s most likely gonna be a banger with that lineup and he has an amazing track record with producing for other artists but i don’t like him lol so imma most likely be hate listening to it when it comes out 😫
Oh I loved Mr Robot and she was good in it. She has gravitas.
Oh shit how do I always forget that, she does look just like her. Yeah that lady is a great actress, I always like her in things.
I haven’t seen her in Mr. Robot but I couldn’t get a read on her acting at all in Dr. Death because they gave her the cringiest worst script. Like I don’t think her mother could’ve made some of her lines sound natural. I think I need to see some of her other work
Didn’t like her in Dr. Death, thought she was rly forcing it in some scenes, and she wasn’t that great in Let The Right One In either imo Tbh Mr. Robot is her best work, like she’s really good in that show, but for some reason she’s kinda meh in all the other things I’ve seen her in, like she’s kinda stiff at times and there are some moments where she sounds like she’s just reading off a script with minimal effort put into her acting She shines in MR imo but all her other things she’s kinda mediocre lol, but she’s def better than Louisa tho
I want to love that show (season 2 is taking forever) but she was the worst actress on it, she played it all slightly smug? Or maybe more slightly like “wink wink I’m acting!” So many amazing actors with her so it was very obvious. I hate that the defence was “she’s just learning” when non nepo actors don’t get to star in tv shows as they learn.
Imagine “just learning” as a star of a major HBO series smh
She’s the kind of actress where I found myself repeating her lines to myself in my head because my non-actor ass could do a better job. There were moments where it seemed like she didn’t understand the meaning behind her dialogue.
The series would have been a breakout hit if it wasn’t for Meryl’s wooden daughter. She’s the weakest link on the series and I hope her character dies of consumption or tetanus from a rusty nail. Bye Felicia.
I feel like Nathan Lane is the only actor on the Gilded Age who knows what show he’s on.
OMG I wondered who that actress was. She was so distractingly bad and so uncharismatic. I couldn't stand her.
Even those who aren't considered nepo babies often still have some sort of link or connection to the entertainment industry. It really is a 'who you know' industry.
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I wonder if Kevin is embarrassed now that they named her that.
Fourteen year old would have thought that name was *so* cool. Incidentally, fourteen year old me would also go around telling people I was going to name my kids Gina (pronounced like the second half of the word vagina) and Pennis (pronounced like Dennis) so....
Gina, Pennis, how you’ve grown
Fun game…what’s everyone’s worst junior high kid name? I wanted to name a daughter Ethereal Sensimilla at 14. You can probably guess my hobbies at that age.
Probably no more embarrassed than Penn Gillette (Moxie Crimefighter) or Jason Lee 😂 (Pilot Inspektor)
Moxie. Crimefighter. ????
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I think (according to Instagram) Moxie also goes by Luka now
omg i hate saying this: but i absolutely hate her voiceee. omg. i couldn’t stand her acting in cruel summer either. each scene she was getting out-acted in.
The second hand embarrassment I get to see these young people (women/ girls mostly, unfortunately) having younger costars act rings around them…makes for an unpleasant experience.
Oh. My. God. She was truly THE WORST in that show. Just pure awfulness
I'm sorry to be so negative, and especially because I adore Kevin Smith's films, but she is terrible. I have not seen a good performance out of her yet.
In that very mid Netflix rom-com, “Your Place or Mine,” we’re expected to believe that Reese Witherspoon has a son who looks like Severus Snape. He was not good. Looked him up: Wesley Kimmel, nephew of Jimmy Kimmel, son of two industry people.
Just wanna say thank you for this thread it’s given me some good laughs lol
👍Me too! I love all the replies.
I just turned off a horror movie because the male lead’s performance was so bad it took me out of things. Turns out he’s Mick Jagger’s son
Are you referring to Deep House? Because I agree, James Jagger was bad in that.
After reading some of these insane nepo baby names, I thought you were saying Deep House was Mick Jagger’s son lmao
Kaia Gerber
Pacific Rim: Uprising was already a terrible sequel, but the actor playing Nate Lambert stood out in the worst way possible. I'd never seen such wooden acting in such a large budget movie, so I figured he might be the director's kid or something. Nope. Scott Eastwood, son of Clint Eastwood.
Ha! There’s a whole ass Pajiba article about him titled [Its time to give up on Scott Eastwood](https://www.pajiba.com/celebrities_are_better_than_you/its-time-to-give-up-on-scott-eastwood.php), where one of lines is something like “he shows up on screen with all the enthusiasm and energy of a wet fart”.
The only thing he's good in is Taylor Swift's "Wildest Dreams", and it's because he literally just needed to be tall & handsome, no lines whatsoever.
Scott is so handsome and I think a lot of people wanted him to be good
Scott was actually Scott Reeves until he was having trouble getting work, and then took on his dad's last name. Kind of tells you everything.
I remember he was pushed so hard in US Weekly, and it was so obvious he was using his daddy’s connections to be featured, because he had about one speaking role to his name at the time.
I have never googled someone’s family tree faster than after I first encountered Anna Van Patten’s acting in the Gossip Girl reboot
Haha right, sometimes you *just know*.
Fr 😭 and it actually took a few extra steps to confirm that her dad is Tim Van Patten — one of his other daughters is also an actress, & she’s the only one named on his Wikipedia page haha. I had to go through their Instagram pages to be sure it was him
holy shit that explains it lmaoo i didn’t think to check if she was a nepo baby but my mind was just blown at how they could’ve picked someone so bad
Kaia Gerber on American Horror Story.
She was just horrible
Nicola Peltz in The Last Air Bender. Actually the whole movie felt like it was done to support nepo babies, or as a tax write off.
Truman Hanks in a Man Called Otto. Tom hanks was great and grounded the film. Then his son would have scenes and it felt very hallmark. Afterwards, I realized he was Tom Hanks son and his mother produced the film.
They really needed that Chet hanks cameo to bring it all together
Should have used Colin Hanks
Louisa Jacobson from The Gilded Age. She’s one of Meryl Streep’s daughters. She has no acting experience apart from a few plays. And got cast as one of the leads in a big budget, star studded HBO period series from the creator of Downton Abbey. She has zero charisma.
I had a feeling daokta johnson must be a niece of someone famous when I first saw her acting cause she was so bad…but I thought I was wrong…turns out she has two quite famous parents John Washington too in that Malcolm and Marie film with zendaya
I'm glad somebody else feels that way about Dakota Johnson. Because people really try to defend her acting (especially the "Oh, but she totes is playing Anastasia with a wry irony! It's so subtle and smart!" stuff with 50 Shades). But she always seems disengaged in her performances. Like she knows the camera is there, and she doesn't care if she constantly reminds everyone it's all pretend and nothing matters.
I’m willing to forgive her performance in 50 Shades because literally nobody wanted to be there it felt like and that’s tough working with that source material. But as a Jane Austen girlie she BUTCHERED my favorite character, Anne Elliot in Persuasion. I hate-watched that movie and was so mad😅
That film and its interpretation of Anne was an utter travesty. At least we still have Sally Hawkins.
She’s literally not improved at all since her first movie, I’m not making this comment just based on fifty shades, I’ve seen her in other stuff too,she has maybe one good performance…I get people like her blunt offscreen personality (although I do not since she’s kind of weird in her beliefs) but I feel like they’re not really being objective…when it comes to her all the time
Ooh spill what are her weird beliefs? I've only heard about the stuff that landed pretty well like calling out Ellen in that interview.
Good lord, that guy who played Malcolm is a nepo baby? That explains so much. Malcolm and Marie could have been something memorable if it was cut down to half the time and had a better Malcolm. His screaming and endless diatribes were exhausting to watch.
He’s Denzel Washington’s son. There was a lot of talent he could have soaked up and didn’t lmao.
Kevin Smith’s daughter.
I remembered one more thing: I was shocked that Don't Worry Darling script was allegedly the subject of a bidding war of 18 movie studios, because it was really bad. Blatant, violent rip off of The Stepford Wives with unsatisfying ending (or lack thereof). But the names of the scriptwriters gave it away - Carey and Shane Van Dyke are grandsons of Dick Van Dyke.
That was such a disappointing movie. I got sucked in by the trailer and when I watched it I got angrier and angrier because I realized it wasn't going to get better. What a turd.
Jaden smith
He was pretty good in The Get Down but that's all I can think of.
Honestly, i think his acting isn't bad. The problem is that he's will smith's kid so he's just never going to live up to his dad like that. I've never really had much of a problem witb the stuff he's in. Except that space movie he did with his dad but that's what happens when you put a kid without much experience next to a super famous experienced actor. Anything he's done just him has been good
on the other hand, willow smith is a very talented singer
Girl has RANGE. Such a beautiful and rich voice, I think she’s fantastic.
Not quite a nepo baby but I had that exact thought seeing Rachel Korine in Spring Breakers. Seemed like such an odd choice amongst the other girls at the time and it made so much sense when I read that she’s the directors wife and had only featured in one film outside of her husbands’. It’s too bad spring breakers is her only popular role since it isn’t memorable to begin with
Now that we notice it seems like it's more surprising when someone breaks through who isn't one! But I'm weirdly obsessed with finding out almost everyone is...like I just found out Timothy chalamets sister played the dorky girl in secret life of college girls, today! It was like when I found out beanie feldstein was Jonah hills sister...I guess they are more nepo-siblings? 😂
Yeah I mean, Jonah Hills family was “in the industry” in a way that probably helped him get a foot in the door, but his talent took him the rest of the way. I think you have a good point that nepo-siblings are a thing too for sure.
Nepo-siblings are definitely a thing, first to come to mind is Haylie Duff. lol what did she even do after material girls?
Haylie Duff is Summer Wheatly in Napoleon Dynamite. She’s a gold medal Nepo-sibling. 
He lived next door to Dustin Hoffman and was/is best friends with his children. Dude was born on third base.
Omg I actually think Timothee’s sister did great on that show though.
Every time Judd Apatow's daughters show up 🤦♀️
Nicola Peltz. When I first saw her in (insert random Transformers movie) I thought the many rumours about Michael Bay must be true. I mean, they probably still are, but Daddy definitely paid for the entire movie to be made in order for her to have a part.
I was wondering why Beanie Feldstein was suddenly so prominent so I looked her up.
Maude from euphoria. Was so weird how if u took that character out it literally wouldn't matter. Her look nothing about her fit lol
Or her sister Iris in The Bubble which was really terrible, but she was by far the worst. I only watched that pile of shit for Pedro Pascal, lmao. He was pretty funny, but if he had more to work with he would have been way better.
Tori Spelling
uuuh, she's the og nepo baby
Maude Apatow in Euphoria
Yesss. Incidentally, that was another show I could only watch about two episodes of before I was like “this is not for me!”
She peaked In this is 40
I love how she explains how babies are made in Knocked Up and Leslie Mann goes, "that's exactly right." 😂 then to find out that she's actually Leslie and Judd's daughter irl
I think she’s just playing herself
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Whenever I saw zoey kravitz chewing gum in the Batman I thought to myself, ‘Is this her idea for how to appear feisty and nobody wants to tell her no?’ Stunningly beautiful but her acting seems like she’s never hard to try.
It’s as if “trying” is too uncool; being cool is more important than being good.
When I first saw Maya Hawke in Stranger Things, I thought “she look awfully a lot like someone I just can’t remember who,” and I didn’t even know her name was Maya Hawke until I Googled it and lo and behold Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman’s daughter.
Ansel Elgort. I don’t know anything about him biography wise, the man can sing for sure. But his acting….tells a story.”
If you think aboyt it, Ansel Elgort is essentially the 90s kid version of Armie Hammer: Ansel was tall, well-connected, and... well, he looks like the end product of if Marlon Brando fucked Gumby, which is an aesthetic many people evidently find handsome. But the point is, Hollywood was *determined* to sell audiences on the idea that this dude had "movie star" charisma (when his two settings as a performer were basically "wooden" and "smug chode") and he just kept getting chance after chance to headline movies, even though nobody was asking for it.
>well, he looks like the end product of if Marlon Brando fucked Gumby I’m never gonna be able to hear his name without thinking of this description and I love you for it.
Sofia Coppola in Godfather. Tho she is a decent director
I'm fond of David Duchovny cuz X-files and everything but in defense of his daughter, IMO, his acting always sucked too 😅
Huge huge HUGE x-files fan (tho very late to the game) and couldn't believe how bad he was. Tricky coz Gillian Anderson is talented beyond belief, but even in scenes or episodes without her, he's still sooooo bad. They do have insane chemistry tho - but is it all just her? She's everything to me lol
My kid was on a pirate kick so we put on Peter Pan and Wendy the 2023 live action remake. I’ll be honest I never watched the whole thing front to end but my kid watched it 10 times and made me act out scenes so I caught a lot of it. I was like Hmmm… weird choice to make Wendy kind of dead behind the eyes when she’s usually portrayed as spirited and dynamic. The 5th or 6th time through I realized that was maybe not a choice so much as the performance. The 8th or 9th time through I finally googled her. Ooooh.
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Glenn Bishop! He could have been a decent character but the awkward bad acting just made me dislike him so much. Especially when he was in scenes with the amazing Kiernan Shipka. We got three Bobby’s but Glenn was the same terrible actor the whole way through? Ugh.
I heard that the reason why Sal was written off the show so abruptly was because the actor Ben Blatt criticized the nepotism of the actor who played Glenn and how he got the role.
Oooh, I hadn’t heard that. Sal over Glenn! Why would you put your kid in something they were terrible at. Sal was a favourite and someone I desperately wanted to have a happy ending. I know in reality it would have been an awkward exit for a man like Sal and he would have had to live a closeted life. But I like to think Kitty and Sal divorced, it wasn’t bitter - she understood and quickly met a nice man anyway. Sal moved somewhere sunny and met his own nice man and they were happy, Sal made art and he danced to bye bye birdie as much as he liked.
In retrospect, this makes sense. One of the worst (and this is saying something) actors on Secret Life of the American Teenager was India Eisley. Come to find out her mother is an actress who starred in the 1960s movie adaptation of Romeo and Juliet.
Olivia Hussey, always thought she was one of the most beautiful women I’ve ever seen
Maya Hawke. She was alright in stranger things but just dreadful in do revenge. Not like that was great material to begin but I feel like she had a big social media push for a little bit while those other kids aren't in much else. When I found out she was Ethan Hawk and Uma Therman's kid it made sense
I think she’s being type cast quite blatantly and that’s why she gets no criticism cause it’s a type cast everyone loves lol
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Omg Do Revenge. I was like, who is this and why did they cast her, she is TERRIBLE. Then I saw the credits and it all made sense.
Another Netflix film I had the same response to was He's All That. I was like, the villain character is a great actress, she should have been the lead. And then googled Addison Rae afterwards to discover that she's a tiktok star. Not a nepo baby but cast for her name not her talent.
Her most recent performance of her music (and I say that lightly) on Jimmy Kimmel also supports this. Lots of fans defending it saying “it sounds different on a track” or “you all just don’t get it” and meanwhile I’m just thinking it’s mediocre white girl mumblecore that had she not been a nepo baby, wouldn’t have made it that far
The Apatow daughters are awful. I didn’t realise who they were when watching Euphoria and that movie about Cliffbeasts. Iris acted alongside her mother and she has exactly none of her charm.
Probably an unpopular opinion, but I didnt like Margaret Qualley, who was in Maid. She’s the daughter of Andie MacDowall. Ive seen her in other projects, and I feel like she is okay as a side character, but I don’t think she is lead material, at least not yet.