Kate Berlant is the saddest kind of nepo baby. Sure, her parents kinda sorta worked in show business but their jobs were too obscure to give her a leg up. “I didn’t have a producer in the family or a director,” she told Stavros Halkias on his Stavvy’s World podcast. Her father was a sculptor, and “my mom worked in like set design, made props.”

In fact, the only help she ever got landing an acting job was from a friend’s mother who finagled her an audition for the Disney Channel kid show Lizzie McGuire. “I booked it,” Berlant said of her part as Student #2, “and I have never booked a role since from an audition.”

Halkias, though, wanted to get back to the whole prop angle with Berlant’s mom: “Did she ever work on anything cool?”

“She actually has one, I have to say, really fucking cool cred,...