Nepo baby? Emma Roberts claims her famous family have cost her jobs

Emma Roberts has said that her famous relatives have actually caused her to be turned down for jobs in Hollywood in the past.

The American Horror Story and Madame Web star is the daughter of the Oscar and Golden Globe-nominated actor Eric Roberts (The Dark Knight, Inherent Vice) and the niece of Julia Roberts.

Despite the external attitude that ‘nepo babies’ are able to benefit early in their careers thanks to high-profile contacts, Roberts claims that the opposite may have been true in her case.

“I’ve lost more jobs than I’ve gained from being in the business,” she told Flaunt magazine.

“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.”

It is not the first time Roberts, who is currently starring in Amazon’s Space Cadet, has addressed the issues surrounding the ‘nepo baby’ tag in recent weeks. In an appearance on the Table For Two podcast last month, she spoke about the difficulty of people assuming she has it easy and ignoring the failures that she has had to endure.

“That’s the thing that I always talk about — people kind of only see your wins because they only see when you’re on the poster of a movie. They don’t see all the rejection along the way,” she said.

“That’s why I’m always very open about things I’ve auditioned for and haven’t gotten the part for. I think it’s important to talk about – otherwise people just think everything’s been so great and linear and easy, and no, it’s not at all. But of course it looks like that to the outside perspective or to the naked eye.”

Touching on her family connections, she said: “I think there’s two sides of the coin. People like to say: ‘You know, you have a leg up because you have family in the industry’.”

“But then the other side to that is you have to prove yourself more. Also, if people don’t have good experiences with other people in your family, then you’ll never get a chance.”

Lily Allen has also recently spoken out against the ‘nepo baby’ concept, describing it as sexist.

“I feel like young girls get it harder with the nepo baby thing,” she said. “I don’t really see people calling out sons of famous actors — not that they should be called out. I don’t think anyone should be called out for wanting to follow their dream.”

Willow Smith, meanwhile, has admitted to feeling a sense of “insecurity” about the term.

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