Nepotism: Film Industry's Biggest Liability?
by fedor8 | Public
or Rampant Abuse of Family Connections In the Film Industry
or How Elitism Dominates Show-Biz
2021 UPDATE: I am trying to catch up with all the more recent actors/directors, but nepotism has been plowing forward (i.e. backward, for us) at such an accelerated pace that I just can't find them all quickly enough. The list should include hundreds more people... Elitism and corruption are on the rise which perfectly aligns with the drastic drop in the quality of movies and television in this century.
2023 UPDATE: I've added almost 650 new names recently.
2023 UPDATE: I have also started adding far more non-Americans, to avoid making the list too U.S.-centric, but also because nepotism/elitism are even more widespread across the Atlantic. The majority of the French entries are to be found on pages 11 and 12. The German section is on pages 12 and 13. Gradually, I might add Spanish, and Italian sections as well, although I already have some people from these (and other) countries. There is a separate list for Serbian nepotism. However, Bollywood nepotism I won't even attempt because I have no inside knowledge of that industry at all, and besides which I'd heard that nearly everybody in it is nepotistic.
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"It’s a running joke in Hollywood that every bellhop, busboy and waitress in LA is working on being an actor, screenwriter, director - whatever. Every year, thousands flock to the city where dreams are made… only to be passed over so someone’s niece can snag a role without having to go through the audition process. Hooray for Hollywood!" - KC Morgan.
Hey, I'm a whistle-blower of sorts! Why won't Hollywood side with me as they do with Edward Snowden?
Oh right, I'm blowing the whistle on THEM. They don't appreciate it when THEY'RE being scrutinized. They prefer to do the moralizing and the finger-pointing themselves, especially in their brazenly deceptive political propaganda films, while always hoping that not too many people notice what a cesspool of hypocrisy, egomania and decadence the American film industry itself is. And not just American cinema, but most other successful film nations too. This list isn't just about American nepotism.
(And besides, Snowden is a bad example. There is a big difference between a whistle-blower and a spy.)
First off, let me explain why this list aggravates some people within show business: because it exposes the hypocrisy of their elitism which goes against all of their left-wing, "equal-opportunity" public-persona politics. The main reason the list might not appeal to some movie fans: because it reveals to them how easily they're manipulated into devouring anything - or accepting anybody as a "talent" - that the powerful movie-industry hype-machine forces into their defenseless brains. Nobody likes to be informed that they are uncritical and lacking criteria. Nobody likes to find out that they aren't capable of differentiating between a great actor and a mediocre one. (But it's precisely this widespread - and growing - inability among most movie-goers that enables nepotism to flourish more than ever before. The studios have grown to realize it in recent decades hence why they'd stopped trying to find talent, or at least curtailed that activity greatly, deeming it unnecessary.)
The list that proves that practically anyone can be turned into a star, or at least a moderately employable actor. If you can talk, walk and learn lines, i.e. if you're a half-way functioning "meat puppet", you're in. But you do need strong connections, because the Pearly Gates of Hollywood are holding off hordes of incoming potential actors, writers and directors whose unexplored talents will remain forever hidden thanks to favouritism.
Millions of young people want in on the fun (sex, power, money and fame... and the "artistry" ha ha) but 99.9% have practically zero chance, not just because many are not good enough but because the privileged kids from powerful industrial and show-biz families have the huge advantage over them, because they get the short-cuts to fame: they get to be auditioned, and the others don't. Rich show-biz kids get the A-movie roles almost straight away, while struggling "plebeian" actors have to scrape up the ladder from the very bottom. Thanks to nepotism (and other forms of Hollywood corruption that I won't get into here but which you can easily guess) these Pearly Gates of Stardom are firmly shut most of the time. At least for the working-class and even middle-class kids.
The movie industry (everywhere, not just in the States) is a very incestuous, sect-like world in which family connections, political affiliation - and even ethnicity - are the deciding factors when it comes to the forging of careers. (The recent Weinstein scandals proved yet again that the casting couch is alive and well, too, and that even nepotists aren't safe from its clutches - let alone non-nepotists.) Talent is far behind in 10th place, after the various, more decisive factors: nobody seems to be interested in talent anymore, certainly not studio bosses, producers, and even directors who had realized a long time ago that the public's criteria have sunk so low over the years that these new audiences accept pretty much any face on the screen. And that is a big part of the reason why at least 90% of all movies are pretty much useless.
Which brings me to why (American) movies have been going down the toilet in recent years. The amount of garbage being put out by major studios has been on a steady rise for some years now. There are several reasons for this, one certainly being political correctness i.e. an all-encompassing political agenda, but perhaps the most negative impact stems from the exponentially growing nepotism which is now firmly entrenched in ALL aspects of film-making. It is difficult to find a recent (big-budget) movie in which more than a half of the cast members don't have influential parents/relatives/friends in the industry before they got their foot in the movie door.
Ditto the film crews, but the list concerns itself only with the "creative" branches of the film industry. In fact, I don't mind at all when gaffers, electricians, prop people, producers and even costume designers stem from show-biz clans. These are all pretty much behind-the-camera, non-creative aspects of the business hence irrelevant. It's the creative and "creative" aspects such as acting, writing and directing that this list is about: this is the Holy Trio of what makes or breaks a movie, the stuff that needs to be of a certain level and quality in order for a movie or TV show to be great, or at least solid.
The list focuses predominantly on actors and directors - hence largely it doesn't even take into consideration the vast number of bad scripts that have been a result of nepotistic infiltration! Nor does it include the plethora of nepotistic offspring that had appeared only in several smaller roles in fairly meaningless productions and as extras in big movies. I have intentionally skipped all the nepotists who have just a handful of minor appearances i.e. credits. You can click on the bio of just about any better-known actor older than 45 and you'll find that at least half of them have kids, siblings or cousins who are either actors, producers, or working in film crews as set designers or whatever.
So movie "artistry" is now an arena limited to a predetermined genetic karma, to a select few with the "right breeding", huh? Nice. How monarchistic. How anti-socialist. But the element of injustice isn't what is the worst about it all: it's the fact that nepotism kills good entertainment. Bad scripts, mediocre directors and charisma-free/incompetent actors combine to produce a heap of garbage that cannot measure up to what real talent can achieve. This is simply a fact, and a very evident one.
Tinseltown's elitist jet-set would have us believe that acting "talent" is passed on genetically, but if you believe there is such a thing as an acting gene (or a "charisma DNA") I would like to see some scientific proof of it first. Besides, many nepotists on this list come from non-movie, or at least non-acting, backgrounds. MANY of the kids who got a shot at fame in the past few decades - that aren't related to actors or producers - are children of upper-class, millionaire clans, wealthy industrialists for example, a fact that offers more proof how anti-equal-opportunity the film industry is, how corrupt and lazy it is.
They would also have us believe that nearly all of the world's acting/writing/directing talent has already been collected from all corners of America (and elsewhere), that the world's "acting talent pool" has dried up, been totally depleted, so why even bother looking for potential new De Niros, Caines, MacLaines, Connerys and Pacinos amongst the "masses"? Hence the debilitating current trend whereby the vast majority of the younger stars today have parents in powerful positions in the business - or commerce, or politics. I wouldn't mind, IF these kids were any good. But they usually aren't. Armies of Pauly Shores, Casey Aflecks and Amy Schumers dominate the film industry, while much more talented kids are sitting around stupidly, naively waiting for their agents to cast them in good auditions. So anti-socialist. Totally anti-liberal.
The gulf between what cinema's left-wingers preach and what they practice can't be any bigger.
It would seem that auditions serve very little purpose in Hollywood (and elsewhere), except to weed out the worst from the bad. A typical high-profile Hollywood audition (I am guessing) must be like a who's-who of famous actors' children, all fighting for a shot at fame and additional cash. Very few outsiders. It makes one wonder just how many truly bad nepotists never make it! Even a severely talent-free case like David Arquette must have beaten out several dozen failed nepotists, i.e. they are even worse ones than him. Scary (but fascinating) thought.
The list also exposes the startling hypocrisy of the movie business which is predominantly left-wing (now more than ever before), i.e. supposedly orientated toward the rights of the poor and "oppressed" - and yet there's this little anti-equality thing called elitist nepotism that proves that this is just an act: in reality, no poor or unconnected person with talent can make it in Hollywood unless they have wild luck. Hollywood predominantly employs its own spoiled rich kids, plus a whole array of sons and daughters of powerful politicians, famous pop stars, high-profile athletes - even sons and daughters of barons, lords and countesses! Hollywood producers and casting directors rarely hire middle-class or especially blue-collar talent. Again, I wouldn't mind this at all, IF only this corrupt selection-process worked - but it clearly doesn't. We've never had so many bland, boring actors and mediocre directors. The scripts are pitiful too.
So what is the real message Hollywood is giving blue-collar kids with dreams of movie careers? "You go on working in your factories and washing dishes and flipping burgers like your parents, we don't really need you here." That is the real message here, and one that is in total contrast/opposition to Hollywood's left-wing equal-opportunity lies - the politically-correct and completely dishonest message Hollywood is selling to the brainwashed masses.
So, yes, as insane and as despicable as it may sound, Hollywood is about silver-spoon-fed, righteous, holier-than-thou millionaires creating/starring in movies that preach about the rights of the oppressed, the poor, promoting socialism, minorities and the working class. Makes a lot of sense, doesn't it. This fact alone should tell you what kind of people run the film industry.
(It's interesting how this list had close to 500 views per week in its first years - then suddenly the numbers went down to two digits. I wonder how that happened.)
The list will be continually upgraded, there are LITERALLY HUNDREDS MORE people that haven't yet been added.
(EDIT: I stuck to my promise and added 200 more names. Then another 200. And another.)
Listed in the approximate order from the worst to slightly less bad. Essentially the first 100 are the best and most relevant examples of why nepotism is awful and destructive, whereas the rest are pretty much ranked randomly.
And no, I am not a disgruntled actor or director. I have never had any aspirations whatsoever to be in show-biz, since I am neither an exhibitionist attention-seeker nor obsessed with money. All I want is to watch good movies, but that is only possible when a good script is complemented with a good cast, and directed by someone chosen on the merit of his talents, not as a favour for a friend.
Nepotism is a branch of corruption. It is amoral, and it leads to a lowering of artistic standards. Whoever can't grasp this simple concept should skip this list altogether.
"The ultimate idea of rags-to-riches success in America is the Hollywood movie star." - Marin Ireland, actress
Methinks Ms Ireland is either trying to be funny or working hard to prove one of the oldest cliches about Hollywood actresses...
Of course, as with anything else, there are degrees or levels. Not all of the people listed here had it equally easy to enter show business. From easiest level entry to least easy:
1. Kids/relatives of studio bosses and powerful producers.
2. Kids/relatives of billionaires and of nobility i.e. the upper-most echelon of the so-called "1%"
3. Kids/relatives of current A-list actors (and directors), so-called "film stars".
4. Kids/relatives of non-show-biz people, but powerful professionals such as influential Hollywood lawyers, District Attorneys and Washington politicians.
5. Kids/relatives of top-tier casting agents and mid-level producers.
6. Kids/relatives of former A-list actors (and directors), i.e. "has-beens" but well-connected has-beens who have quite a number of very useful telephone numbers in their notepads.
7. Kids/relatives of B-list/C-list actors with lengthy filmographies. Not nearly as well-connected as the categories listed above, but certainly with far more advantages at their disposal than a farmer's daughter in Alabama (who has almost zero chance to get her Cinderella foot in the door, even if she's beautiful and talented; this does happen but very rarely).
8. Kids/relatives of minor actors who showed up on TV and movies in small parts.
9. Kids/relatives of prominent and/or wealthy archeologists, scientists, and other types of non-show-biz professionals. ..... ..... .....
100. Kids from the working class, from trailer-parks, and farmers' sons and daughters. These demographics very rarely make it to the film industry or even the mainstream music industry - which is equally corrupt, believe it or not. There was a time in the 50s and 60s in the UK when this happened occasionally (Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Anthony Hopkins), but generally speaking most eras have been blue-collar-unfriendly. Being even "merely" of the middle-class lessens one's chances significantly.
The 9 categories above are neither a complete or totally precise division/ranking of nepotistic levels, but it gives you a good idea of how nepotists are ranked in terms of how well connected they are, i.e. how easy or less easy their access to employment and/or outright stardom is. Being Will Smith's kid is thereby in a far better position to get started than a child from a wealthy clan of famous archeologists. Kids from the top 3 categories rarely need to waste their time on minor roles and smaller movies: they usually start their careers right away in big-budget films. But that's just a general rule. (Hint: whenever an unknown young actor/actress suddenly appears in a very good role in a top movie production, chances are fairly high it's a nepotist).
Of course, there are also many actors who broke into show-business through a childhood friend, such as was the case with Tobey Maguire. There are many such cases, but they aren't included on this list. In other words, the list could/should be twice as large if I had access to this kind of information too.
My YouTube channel, it's mostly music-related:
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Born to socialite Elizabeth Mary Hester "Bettine" (Moore) and William Taliaferro Close, a doctor who operated a clinic in the Belgian Congo and served as a personal physician to its dictator Mobutu Sese Seko. Both of them stem from upper-class families.
Her half-sister is actress Dina Merrill, herself connected to the upper-class.
I had also read somewhere a long time ago that she was a more distant relative to Princess Diana, but can't find any evidence of it anymore.
One of the reasons why "Fatal Attraction" is such an absurd and awful thriller.
One word: OVERRATED.
His acting technique consists of delivering his lines as quickly as possible while showing zero variation in facial expressions.
And he is a political activist, tirelessly fighting against evils such as elitism and nepotism.
No, wait...
Yet another bland offspring of a much better actor.
The "acting DNA" does not exist.
Unfunny over-actor. Father is a musician, not an actor.
Music DNA becomes acting DNA. If you'll believe it. Watching Cuba overact, I choose not to believe it.
Not a bonafide nepotist, but stems from the British upper-class, has a SIR in his family and went to Eton with Prince William.
Well, that certainly explains it! Or do you actually believe Eddie would have had even a slight shot at fame if he were son of the local butcher?
I am amazed that they try to sell this guy as a "hunk". I feel almost as if his career is a huge, elaborate prank.
The most horrible commercial-formula scripts Hollywood has ever given us, came from her.
She used to look semi-decent, but her acting is forced and unnatural.
And now she's even directing? Please tell me they didn't allow her to plan the first mission to Mars too.
I never liked Ingrid, so you can well imagine how crazy I am about her daughter, who is (even) less talented and less attractive.
Actress Ingrid Bergman and director Roberto Rossellini. With that kind of "pedigree" how could she fail to get into show-biz? "Hollywood Royalty", that's what corrupt journalists call it, trying to justify blatant elitism by using out-dated monarchist logic, a logic which liberals - of all people - should not be promoting or even hinting at. Yet they do: the liberal media preach racial and class equality yet they happily hype every Hollywood kid the studios decide should have a career. Because they are hypocrites, as are most of the show-biz elites that control the entertainment industry.
Just to illustrate how extreme elitism in America is i.e. how far its nepotistic tentacles reach in society, take for example Isabella's twin sister Isotta Rossellini who taught as a professor of Literature at Columbia, NYU, Princeton and Harvard universities.
Or does anybody actually believe she would have taught in such prestigious institutions if she had been Anonymous Rossellini? Of course not.
But hey, Harvard is famous for its liberalism, its activism, promoting EQUAL OPPORTUNITY and socialism , a class-less society. Yet they are just as bad as everyone else.
Elitism is EVERYWHERE, it rules society, don't let them tell you otherwise.
4th generation.
This is one of the most blatant proofs that nepotism has practically NOTHING to do with inherited talent, but is just a corrupt and often totally undeserved shortcut to an undeserved shiw-biz career - at least in most cases.
Daughter of bad actress Mariel Hemingway and Stephen Crisman as well as the niece of the late model and bad actress Margaux Hemingway. Communist author Ernest Hemingway is her great-grandfather. She has a younger sister named Langley Fox who is a model.
They gave her an Oscar just because her grandfather was a Marxist-leaning novelist. Her performance in that movie was nothing short of atrocious.
Woody Allen is an elitist. He constantly helps out his friends by casting their kids - or going by political affiliation.
Why didn't SHE get an Oscar too? She's no worse than her sister Mariel i.e. just as bad and just as unappealing.
Oh right... She wasn't cast in a Woody Allen movie...
Woody has such a bad sense of casting (screwed up often in this department) and absolutely zero aesthetic sense.
Born in L.A., part of a well-connected movie family.
Anyone surprised?
Virtue-signalling "feminist"... yeah, that is such a stretch from nepotism.
Starred in a bad sit-com and then made mediocre, commercial movies.
3rd generation.
Robotic acting completely devoid of nuance or understanding whom she is impersonating.
Hands down one of the nicest guys in show business, people who've met him uniformly agree that he is well-mannered and friendly to everyone.
But... Can he act?
A bit. And that's being generous.
4th generation.
John Drew Barrymore (father), actor
Jaid Barrymore (mother), actress
John-Blythe Barrymore (half-brother), actor
Diana Barrymore (aunt), actress
John Barrymore (grandfather), actor
Dolores Costello (grandmother), actress
Helene Costello, actress
Maurice Costello (great-grandfather), actor
Mae Costello (great-grandmother), actress
Ethel Barrymore (great-aunt), actress
Lionel Barrymore (great-uncle), actor
Sophia Loren (godmother), actress
Anna Strasberg (godmother), actress
Steven Spielberg (godfather), bad director/producer
Overrated director who used left-wing politics to further attract attention and get awards. He is a sly one: knows exactly how the system works and how to exploit it.
Matthew has a cute story about how he was a tennis coach (even a semi-talented aspiring tennis pro) in Hollywood before "accidentally" being discovered.
The story doesn't mention his nepotistic connections, so you decide how accurate it is.
Hollywood studios have been infamous for fabricating their actors' biographies ever since the Golden Age. Anyone as familiar with the history of American cinema as I am will know what I am talking about.
Her mother was a secretary at Dior and former model, who had previously dated Aga Khan IV, while Kensit's father was a close associate of both the Kray Twins and the Richardson Gang, earning himself the nickname "Jimmy the Dip", and was involved in the Great Train Robbery.
Nice, huh?
Gangster / fashion model kid GOTTA have music AND acting genes, right?
Here is how journalists help perpetuate the hype, making nepotism appear normal and natural, a quote from an extremely dumb internet text:
"Elle got the best of both worlds—striking good looks that favor her mother and wild-child performance antics that scream "comedian's kid"... Elle seems to have inherited the confidence and swagger necessary to make it in the entertainment industry. She probably caught the bug early."
1. The "confidence" comes from knowing that you can fail as a nepotist time and time again yet get more chances, whereas a non-nepotist doesn't have that luxury.
2. And she didn't "catch the acting bug". It's an attention-seeker's bug, a greed bug. Everyone wants to be famous these days, and nobody has it easier in that venture than celeb kids.
3. So she inherited her comedic streak from Rob Schneider?
Rather than get the best person for a role - out of thousands of aspiring/available actors - producers simply hire the Chucky serial's main star's daughter; on his own insistence. Which is a kind of blatant abuse of power.
And therein lies the problem: when the casting is done through nepotism, it shows a lack of interest in the filmic end-product. The sole interest is employment for one's kids, spouse or mistress, i.e. money for one's own clan. It is an almost tribal approach.
Sure, the Chucky movie series is moronic, but this sort of thing happens for far more "serious" filmic ventures.
Stems from an upper-upper class background, with various Sirs and Lords. Basically, any kid born into such a family can have a shot at fame. They just need to pick their poison: modeling, movies, art or music. Voila: wish fulfilled! It's that simple.
Sometimes journalism too, because anyone can be a "journalist" nowadays. The less extrovert, narcissist, attention-seeking upper-class kids could pick that instead of show-biz. But entertainment and the arts remains their favourite - because these people are generally speaking brought up in an environment that build their egos to extreme levels since childhood. Hence they feel entitled - and they in fact are.
I'll never forgive her for ruining "Possible World". Would have been a perfect movie with another actress in the role.
Granddaughter of Elvis Presley... who was SUCH a great actor.
He is one of the better nepotists, a very good choice for heavies, and much more charismatic and interesting than his VASTLY overrated try-hard brother Sean.
Please don't tell me what a brilliant actor he is, I can't hear it anymore. Certainly he is better than most on this list, but that's not saying much. He simply has the wrong face for most of the roles he got. Not to mention uncharismatic, especially in his younger days. His brother is much better.
Utterly unlikable face, he looks like a... no, better not.
3rd generation.
Son of Sean Penn.
"Hollywood royalty" - which is what corrupt, obsequious entertainment "journalists" call them.
Forced weirdness acting style. Boring and mediocre.
Son of actor Bruce Glover and actress and dancer Marion Elizabeth Lillian Betty Krachey.
Trust Ridley Scott to cast the wrong actresses in key roles over and over. He's doing this on purpose, right?
That awful Alien prequel was even worse because of this dull actress.
At least I can't accuse her of being worse than her mother Meryl Streep, because that's impossible.
Uncle is Mike Capuano, 10-term Democratic Congressman.
Chris always irritated me with his "bravado" acting style. Kirk Douglas could do that and get away with: Chris can't.
Constance and Joan Bennett are his aunts.
3rd generation.
This means that Robert Downey is a 4th generation nepotist, and certainly the only 4th gen nepotist of any worth, hence why he isn't on the list, though overrated somewhat.
Daughter of Richard Bennett and Adrienne Morrison, actors.
Granddaughter of a wealthy Spanish/English man.
Aunt of Morton Downey Jr whose son is Robert Downey.
"A chance encounter with Samuel Goldwyn" started off her career, says her IMDb bio. A coincidence, huh? Really...
One of her daughters is in movies too, still active, but her career isn't noteworthy hence isn't included on this list. If I included EVERY nepotist regardless of how few roles they had (not counting cameos and uncredited) this list would be twice as long, if not more.
Did Robert Downey give him this name before or after going to prison?
3rd-generation nepotism, yet again.
Nevertheless, the acting career didn't pan out for some reason, he stopped it.
Not funny.
At all.
Except when she goes out into the streets to protest pollution then tells a journalist she refuses to NOT travel first class to help cut down on pollution.
No joke. Some celebs are at their funniest when there is no intention to be funny.
She feels entitled to pollute, but is greatly offended when the "commoners" travel.
We call that hypocrisy and entitlement.
Overactor with good looks but supremely annoying.
Who could he possible have inherited the "acting gene" from? James Brolin is a mediocre actor, bland and boring.
Not a horrible actor, but so uncharismatic that his range of roles is limited to just one type.
One of the many nepotists who are kids of famous magazine publishers or television tycoons.
I knew she was one, the moment I saw her face. At least 90% of them are instantly recognizable. The aura of non-talent surrounds them like a cloud.
There are other Coppolas scattered on this list. Nick Cage and Jason Schwartzman, for example. They are not all huddled in this bunch.
Yet another addition to the huge Coppola clan. One of them makes a few great movies, and instantly they spread all over the industry like a huge octopus.
Son of Jack Schwartzman & Talia Shire.
Younger brother of Jason Schwartzman.
Cousin of Marc Coppola, Christopher Coppola, Nicolas Cage, Sofia Coppola and Roman Coppola.
Nephew of Francis Ford Coppola.
Grandson of composer Carmine Coppola and Italia Coppola.
Half-brother of John Schwartzman, Stephanie Schwartzman, & Matt Shire.
Great-grandson of Francesco Pennino.
That's pretty much half of Hollywood...?
He has become somewhat of a meme of bad overacting, with a plethora of comedians mocking his acting style.
In fact, he either completely overacts or underacts as if he has zero interest in the role. He never seems to get it right.
Admittedly, I consider him a so-bad-he's-good type of actor, so I don't mind his success that much. But he definitely gets WAY too many roles.
It's amazing that Francis Ford Coppola would risk sinking an entire movie by casting his sister. And then later his daughter.
Bland and uninteresting. Easily the worst thing about "Godfather". And "Rocky".
Who'd ever argue that he can't be talented: Nicholas Cage isn't a great actor???
How dare you...
Is currently being heavily hyped by Hollywood's studio system.
Ever wondered why he sticks out like a sore thumb in the otherwise great Trainspotting cast?
Well, now you know. Totally without charisma, bland and uninteresting.
His great-grandfather was a pioneering English film enthusiast who published The Kinematograph Weekly. An industrialist and printing entrepreneur, he established a number of technical and trade journals. A freemason, he was mayor of St Pancras in 1908, and founded the printing and publishing company E. T. Heron and Co Ltd.
He was absolutely horrible in "Dracula Untold", an over-actor.
Chrstopher Stone and Dee Wallace.
Is being currently mega-hyped by the studios.
Spiderman?
Really?
This guy?
Thank God I have zero interest in dumb superhero movies. The way they are cast these days they must be more horrible than even they have any right to be.
Daughter of Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke.
3rd generation nepotist from both sides.
OK actor but so bland and uninteresting. And always the same facial expression.
He is a second cousin twice-removed of writer Tennessee Williams on his father's side. Hawke's maternal grandfather, Howard Lemuel Green, served five terms in the Texas Legislature (1957–67), served as the elected Tarrant County Judge in Texas from 1967 to 1975, and was also a minor-league baseball commissioner.
He calls himself a feminist, which implies he is a liberal, almost certainly. But what I'd like to know is how he can promote class equality when he is one of MANY profiteers of class elitism - and he NEVER addresses it i.e. pretends it's not there, pretends his career is purely a result of his "talents" and "hard work".
Nepotism is a form of corruption hence it is immoral (and in certain companies/organizations illegal too), and whoever benefits from it so greatly loses the moral right to "champion" equality or any similar left-wing causes. It's hypocritical to promote "working class opportunity" yet benefit from this kind of elitist behaviour AND help your offspring benefit from it too. This kind of ongoing generational corruption is the polar opposite of "equal opportunity" activism.
I hate to repeat myself but - he's bland.
One of this list's main themes is blandness, so my overuse of this word comes with the territory.
Stellan Skarsgard's greed(?) for expanding the clan's bank accounts is immense, or is it simply that he can't say no the pleading of his kids to be "famous"?
Slightly more charmismatic than Colin Hanks, but that's not saying much.
I saw some scenes from that ridiculous Johnny Cash bio, and honestly thought it was a comedy making fun of the country legend.
A horrible actor in certain movies, such as "Gladiator", prone to overacting, with an overblown reputation only nepotism can give. He does however have a little more charisma than most on this list.