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One of the favorite internet subjects to be discussed is the proliferation of so-called " nepo "In Hollywood and in the entertainment industry in general. Abbreviation of" nepotism babies ", this term is used to refer to children of celebrities who follow their traces or embark on a different creative career - and seem to find success from The departure of the door, while someone without family connection could fight. NEPO babies have existed for many decades (take the Dynasties of Barrymore actor and Fonda), although the stars of the second generation of the advantages were born With more criticism and conversations in recent years. In a recent interview, actors father and daughter Ethan And Maya Hawke Addressed to the complicated label and the way they could court the controversy with their next film.

Maya is Ethan's 25 year old daughter and pulp Fiction star Uma Thurman , which married from 1998 to 2005. His first actor credit was 2017 Little woman the mini-series; She continued to break out in the blow of Netflix Foreign things , Star in movies Asteroid city And get revenge , and publish music. While it seemed more sensitive to be considered a "baby nepo" in a conversation on her new film Wild cat , that Ethan directed and she was leading, her father was not excused. Continue to read to find out more. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

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Variety Interview both Ethan and Maya About their independent film Wild cat , in which Maya plays as an author Flannery O'Connor . Young Hawke has been interested in the writer for a long time, and the film was his idea. She presented it to her father's production company and chose him as director.

"In simple terms, I am a NEPO dad! And I am not embarrassed about it," Ethan, 52, told The Outlet. THE Variety The interviewer notes: "The gaze on Maya's face suggests that she is instantly concerned about how this declaration will resonate."

Ethan and Thurman also welcomed a son named Levon Thurman-Hawke , who is also an actor.

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Maya said in the same interview that she was worried that she was working alongside her father on Wild cat could be.

"I had moments of insecurity on this subject while we were turning the film," she said. "But the Internet does not have many nuances. My father was a massive teacher for me, and we want to work together. We like to be with each other."

Ethan added: "If someone wants to criticize us for working together, it's totally fair. You have to let people have their opinion. You just have to try to do a good job when you are on stage."

Maya said Variety that she would not have worked so closely with Ethan earlier in her career because she wanted to settle. (She appeared in an episode of her mini-series The good lord bird in 2020.)

"As a teenager, I would not have been there to have enough confidence to make it publicly ...", she said. Ethan continued his thought: "You say that we could did it earlier, but the temperature in the room has changed because Maya now has the right to be the head of something. It is different from what she was 17 years old. This film is funded because it is in it, not because I run. ""

Maya added: "Well ... a bit of both."

At another moment of the interview, Ethan praised Maya's talents outside his family name. When the conversation turned to his daughter attending the prestigious Juilliard School in New York, he said: "Famous parents can help you get a hearing, but they will not enter you."

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In an interview People In 2021, Maya recognized That the fame of her parents helped her put his foot in the door. But she noted that she had to prove himself once she was inside.

"I am very grateful to the fact that they have so easy for me to do what I like," she said. "I think I will get some chances of their name and then if I suck, I'm going to be expelled from the kingdom. And that's what should happen. So I'm just going to try not to suck."

In an interview in 2022 with Rolling stone , We asked Maya how she takes care of people who Note it as a baby nepo .

"I don't really interact with enemies or compliments," she said. "I love this advice I have received, it is that if you read the right criticisms, they are partly real, and if you read the bad things that people say, they are also partly true. 'Are not the gift of God to humanity, and you are not a little dirty waste rat. You are not either and you are both. "

In this same interview, she gave him "ethics" to be the child of two acclaimed actors. "I feel like the only way to manage the thing of nepotism - which certainly gives you massive advantages in this life - you will get chances for free, but the chances will not be endless; you must therefore continue to work and do Well job, "she said. "If you do a bad job, the chances will stop."

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