Maya Hawke is not ashamed of being labeled a “nepo baby”. In fact, she accepts this and even admits that being a “nepo baby” is what got her a role in Quentin Tarantinoin Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
Ethan Hawke It is Uma ThurmanThe 25-year-old daughter made the revelation in a new interview with The times from London, who headlined the profile “Maya Hawke: My Life as a Hollywood Nepo Baby.” In the long interview, the actress recalled her year 2019 Hollywood reporter interview, in which she shared that she “got an audition for the project through normal channels through my agents (and) I auditioned in my room with my dad…we sent the tape to Quentin and I got a callback. “
In hindsight, Maya says she could have chosen her words a little more carefully.
“I was mocked for this clip when I said on the red carpet that I auditioned,” she said. The times. “I never wanted to imply that I didn’t get the role for nepotistic reasons – I think I did.”
Maya got the role of one of Charles Manson’s followers, Flower Child. But Maya was far from the only actress in Tarantino’s film with famous parents. There was also Margaret Qualley (daughter of Andie MacDowell) and Rumer Willis (daughter of Bruce Willis).
At the start of the interview, Maya scoffed at the notion that she “deserves” her current status in Hollywood as a rising star who worked hard before hitting the screen — from her high school productions to attending the prestigious Juilliard School. In New York City.
“”Deserve’ is a complicated word,” she says. “There are so many people who deserve to have this kind of life and don’t, but I think I’m comfortable with not deserving it and doing it anyway. I saw two paths when I started, and one of them was: change your name, get a nose job and open casting spots.”
She acknowledged that the “honest” relationship she has with her famous parents provided her with a level of comfort in accepting the role of “nepo baby.”
“It’s okay to be ridiculed when you’re in rarefied air,” said Maya, who has since also appeared on Weird stuff and Bradley Cooper, Conductor. “It’s a lucky place to be. My relationship with my parents is really honest and positive, and that supersedes anything anyone could say about it.”
Maya is so comfortable with the “nepo baby” label that in her new single, “Chaos Angel,” she sings about it:
“I was born with my foot in the door / and my mind in the gutter / and my guts on the floor.”
In September, Maya and her famous father interviewed for ET in Toronto, Canada, and spoke about nepotism, a topic that gained prominence in social consciousness in 2021 after new York MagazineThe nepotism cover has sparked an outcry in Hollywood and beyond.
“Your generation gets a lot of criticism about this expression, which somehow seems derogatory, this nepo son, and I want to align myself as a nepo father,” said Ethan, who joked that Maya hired him to direct her 2023 film, Wild cat.
For her part, Maya acknowledged that it doesn’t hurt to have famous and well-connected parents in the industry.
“I think criticism of children is about access and opportunity, so I’m hesitant about it, although I appreciate the humorous acknowledgment of our process,” Maya said.
Ethan added, “Let me say publicly on Entertainment Tonight that I’m so grateful for one of the best job offers of my life and I don’t care how it happened.”
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