Emma Roberts thinks individuals are leaving out an vital level within the ongoing “nepo child” discourse.
Throughout an look on Tuesday’s episode of the iHeart podcast “Table for Two with Bruce Bozzi, the “American Horror Story” actor — who’s the daughter of actor Eric Roberts and the niece of Julia Roberts — mentioned that she believes the general public solely witnesses the successes of actors from well-known households.
“People kind of only see your wins because they only see when you’re on the poster of a movie,” Emma Roberts mentioned. “They don’t see all the rejection along the way.”
She defined that she’s usually open about when she doesn’t get a job she auditioned for as a result of she believes folks will in any other case suppose “everything’s been so great and linear and easy.”
Earlier within the dialogue, Emma Roberts mentioned that whereas folks usually name out “nepo babies” for having a “leg up” in Hollywood, the opposite facet to that’s that “you have to prove yourself more.”
“Also, if people don’t have a good experience, maybe with other people in your family, then you’ll never get a chance,” she mentioned.
“Young girls, I feel like, get it harder … with the ‘nepo baby’ thing,” she later added.
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The discourse surrounding “nepo babies” in recent times was fueled by a a lot talked-about 2022 New York Journal cowl story that dug into the world of Hollywood nepotism.
The time period, brief for “nepotism babies,” describes kids of actors, singers and different celebrities who profit from their dad and mom’ fame or connections.
Emma Roberts has publicly talked in regards to the profession of her Oscar-winning aunt, and the way the “Eat Pray Love” actor has impressed her personal profession.
Richard Gere, who starred alongside Julia Roberts in basic movies equivalent to “Pretty Women” and “Runaway Bride,” performed the daddy of Emma Roberts’ character in “Maybe I Do.”
Whereas selling the movie final yr, Roberts informed The Related Press that performing alongside Gere within the movie was “full circle in the Roberts family.”
On Bozzi’s podcast, Roberts mentioned that she’s witnessed the darker facet of fame by way of her aunt’s experiences — and from some latest experiences of her personal.
“It’s fun and it’s great, but there is a part of it that’s really scary,” she mentioned. “And so I’ve always wanted to kind of carve my own path of not just [being] a movie star, but do stuff that’s creatively fulfilling.”
She famous she’d lately handled a ″stalker scenario” that she mentioned was “leaked to the press.”
That “felt like such a violation because I was just so scared,” she mentioned.
