To those that assume being a “nepotism baby” makes it simpler to maintain a Hollywood profession, Emma Roberts want to supply a counterargument.
In an interview with Flaunt journal printed final week, the “American Horror Story” star ― whose dad is actor Eric Roberts and whose aunt is actor Julia Roberts ― mentioned that in the case of touchdown roles, she’s had some difficulties as a result of her household is so well-known.
“I’ve lost more jobs than I’ve gained from being in the business,” Roberts argued. “People have opinions and sometimes maybe they’re not good opinions of people in your family. I’ve never gotten a job because of it, I know I definitely have lost a couple of jobs because of it.”
The time period “nepotism baby,” or “nepo baby,” refers to youngsters of actors, singers and different public figures whose skilled success, usually within the realm of present enterprise, is perceived to be a byproduct of getting well-known and/or rich kinfolk.
In 2022, New York Journal printed a canopy story on nepo infants that included “An All but Definitive Guide to the Hollywood Nepo-Verse.” Actors Dakota Johnson and Ben Platt had been amongst these featured prominently within the article.
Notably absent, nevertheless, was Roberts herself.
Even so, she informed Flaunt that the journal’s cowl picture ― which featured the heads of celeb youngsters superimposed onto the our bodies of toddler infants ― was a “cheap shot.”
“It’s like maybe the ‘Nepo Baby’ conversation would’ve been a more interesting article written intelligently in Vanity Fair with nuance,” she mentioned, “but instead, it was kind of this viral hating-on-people thing.”
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In a separate interview with Selection, Roberts was requested about “Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV,” the controversial Max and Discovery+ docuseries that zooms in on troubling claims of a poisonous work atmosphere on youngsters’s and younger grownup collection that aired on Nickelodeon within the late Nineties to the early 2000s.
Roberts, who starred on Nickelodeon’s “Unfabulous” for 3 seasons, mentioned she was left “completely horrified and shocked” by “Quiet on Set.” Nonetheless, she mentioned the docuseries didn’t replicate her personal expertise.
“It made me really, really, really sad that that was happening to people that I literally saw often and had no idea,” she mentioned. “For me, my show, ‘Unfabulous,’ the showrunner we had was this amazing woman named Sue Rose. And I didn’t realize at the time, but a female showrunner back then was not very common.”
She went on to notice: “It makes me really sad, and I just feel like children need to be protected on sets, as do adults, and I feel like we’re working towards a better work environment in that sense.”
Roberts can presently be seen in “Space Cadet,” launched final week on Amazon Prime Video. The comedy follows Rex Simpson (performed by Roberts), a Floridian get together lady turned aspiring astronaut, and co-stars Tom Hopper, Poppy Liu and Gabrielle Union.
