Why do nepo children’s easy career fascinate us so much?

They and they are everywhere, in our Spotify playlists and in all the series we binge. They are the nepo children, a term popularized in recent months via TikTok. Of nepo childcomprehend child of nepotismwho owes his success or his social ascent to his family members.

Is one of New York Magazine this week who put the finger on the phenomenon with this unstoppable and devastating hook “He has his mother’s eyes. And her agent. »and some emblematic faces of this trend, Dakota Johnson, daughter of Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith, Maya Hawke, daughter of Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke or even Zoë Kravitz, daughter of Lenny Kravitz and Lisa Bonet.

One foot in the door and a lot of work, really?

As Lily-Rose Depp so well told us (hey, it’s also on the cover of the New York Magazine) in an interview for SHE : “The Internet values ​​your family much more than the people who chose you. We may be able to get one foot in the door, but it’s only one foot. There’s a lot of work to do then. » If we keep twisting the pedal metaphor, we might answer sometimes the door is easily held open to facilitate the insertion of the foot.

Let’s be honest: It’s not necessarily to blame nepo children having been helped, advised, having received a healthy boost that allowed him to be in the right place at the right time. It is rather the disconcerting ease with which they often ignore this possibility and do not attribute their success to themselves. only on their own merit and hard work, which is getting seriously annoying for everyone. If at least they and they admitted that having ties in the middle through their entourage or a little co-option all helps! Conversely, everyone is able to confidently deliver a pre-chewed speech that they and they were by no means predestined to tread movie sets and red carpets and that they and they worked so hard to get there. . Still happy. But certainly less than those who don’t have their own network or don’t come from a great Hollywood dynasty.

Vulture also took the opportunity to do a rather funny quiz in which the goal is to assign a typical sentence to nepo child to nepo child who really said it. Here, Maya Hawke, of course, didn’t help at all in landing a role in a Quentin Tarantino film, knowing that her mom was her muse:

“You know, I auditioned like everyone else… maybe I finally got a tighter hug and a wink from Quentin. »

What if nepo kids aren’t the problem?

It was singer Lily Allen who recently contributed to the debate about Chirping. Daughter of actor Keith Allen (and sister of actor Alfie Allen seen in game of Thrones), wanted to point out that things are sometimes a little more complicated than it seems, but also how it has evolved on this issue :

“When I was in my 20s it really put me on the defensive, I felt that I had worked very hard and that I deserved the success I had, that people liked my songs and that they had also had a strained relationship with some of my family members, so it was hard to attribute my successes to them at the time. But we all know it’s more complicated than that. It is quite clear that there is a lack of representation in this industry where class and race are impacted. Everyone is a loser in the end. »

She believes it obsession with nepo children finally get away from the real problem inequalities of access to these cultural elites Whether or not one is convinced by the arguments developed by Lily Allen, it has the merit at least of recognizing that there is a concern and is not limited to a “When we want we can”.

And in France? Will we one day be able to say the terms on the nepotism of all cultural environments, from cinema to publishing to music? We will one day be ready to say that yes, talent is not everything, and that a good address book and a name (Garrel, Lindon or Chédid, at random) never hurt when you want to take the motorway famous… sorry, when do you want to pursue an artistic career?