"I know there are people who'll say I only got this role because of who my dad is. They're not seeing that I've had ten years of acting classes, put on [high] school plays every week, worked on my characters for hours on end or the hundreds of rejected auditions I've been on."
"It's funny because people will be like, 'Oh, nepotism.' I'm like, 'No.' My dad's a DP [director of photography]. No one's getting jobs because their dad's a DP. It's definitely not,"
"It's completely normal for people to be in the family business. It's literally where last names came from. You were a blacksmith if your family was, like, the Black family."
Access to industry connections from famous parents creates unequal opportunities for their children. Some emphasize prolonged training, frequent auditions, and sustained effort as primary drivers of career progress. Others argue parental industry roles do not directly translate into job offers, citing technical or behind-the-scenes positions that rarely produce casting advantages. Some contextualize familial career continuity as a historical norm akin to inherited trades and surnames. Some acknowledge that parental access exists while maintaining that additional hard work remains necessary to capitalize on opportunities. Perspectives vary between assertions of earned merit and critiques of inherited privilege.
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