Daughter of Vanessa Paradis and Johnny Depp, Lily-Rose Depp thinks she owes her career only to her talent, not pistons

He preferred to remain silent for a long time. While the lawsuit between actor Johnny Depp and his ex-wife, actress Amber Heard made headlines and was the scene of an unprecedented wave of online hate, Lily-Rose Depp chose not to comment on this case.

The 23-year-old actress answered questions from the SHE American and addressed the topic publicly for the first time: “When it’s something so private and intimate that it’s suddenly not… I think I have the right to keep my thoughts a secret. I believe that too I don’t have to answer to anyoneand i feel like for most of my career people really wanted to define me as the men in my life, whether it’s my family members or my boyfriends, it doesn’t matter. And I’m really ready to be defined by the things I do. »

Holding Lily-Rose Depp accountable for her father’s actions doesn’t really make sense, but that’s hardly surprising considering it’s become common to see women who have an abuser in their entourage almost being held accountable for the latter’s actions.

Lily-Rose, convinced that she owes nothing to her status as a child of the stars

On this, we tend to agree. But later in the interview, the young actress and model believes there would be a touch of sexism to thatis continuously restored to its state of “Nepo baby”. Understand: child of nepotism, who owes his success or his social ascent to his family members, in this case to his parents.

“It’s strange to reduce someone to the idea that they only got there thanks to something generational [sic]. That does not make sense. If someone has a doctor mother or father, and he in turn becomes a doctor, we will not say, “You are only a doctor because one of your parents is a doctor.” In fact, “no, I became a doctor and worked”. »

Sweep with the back of the hand the problems of social reproduction that have been theorized for some time, especially when you’re part of an elite, Lily-Rose Depp adds: “It’s just that I hear it a lot about women, and I don’t think it’s a coincidence. »&

Sexism has a good back. Like many “daughters of” and “son of”, Lily-Rose Depp would like us to forget her wealthy position, which has necessarily opened some doors in film and modeling.

Growing up like Lily-Rose Depp means that even with a lot of talent and a lot of hard work, you always have a nice edge over someone as talented as you who has no relatives in show business. The best thing is surely sometimes just to acknowledge it, rather than doing it pretend we made ourselves (while we had mom’s credit card and dad’s address book, or vice versa, or both). But this is often how we recognize the pure products of nepotism…

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