Children of... and plugged in there have been all their lives. That they become a labor category is a matter of the networks and their obsession with blacklists. Boomers are retiring, Generation X is having trouble getting online, Millennials are trying to survive, and Generation Z is looking for blame. And there are the nepo babies. Sons of dad, sons of nepotism... This is how second-generation celebrities have been baptized in Hollywood who now, with the same doses of adoration and hatred, have found translation in Spain.
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But the show must go on and so must the business. The Oscars gala exalted the old nepo baby Jamie Lee Curtis, daughter of Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh – “Dad, mom, I won an Oscar” – and served to introduce a new generation: the children of Brendan Fraser, the Colin Farrell, the daughter of Salma Hayek and François-Henri Pinault, the son of Jennifer Connelly…
In Spain @thenmarina accumulates chapters and visualizations of the Spanish nepo. What used to be lineages of artists –the Merlo, Bardem, Flores…– are now the sons of… The lists multiply until they confuse the last name with the talent and put Tamara Falcó and Bad Gyal in the same bag. Attributing to the drama of actor Eduard Farelo the brilli-brilli of his daughter on the Primavera Sound stage singing Zorra is like thinking that The Rising was the passage of Bruce Springsteen's son to the New Jersey fire department.
Among the sons of… there are endurance races and other inconsequential ones. Among the latter, most accredit having been posed on a cover on coated paper when they turned 18 and earn a living adding likes to their Instagram accounts. And his parents are not responsible for that like...
