Jack Quaid agrees with ‘nepo baby’ label: “I am an immensely privileged person”
Jack Quaid has revealed that he agrees with being labelled a “nepo baby” – find out why below.
Quaid, is apart from his star-making role in The Boys, best known for being the son of actors Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan. However, he doesn’t think that’s necessarily a bad thing. Speaking on The Daily Beast’s The Last Laugh podcast, explained why.
When asked why he isn’t too keen on starring in romantic comedies, he linked his answer back to his mother’s presence in the genre: “It was a little bit of a conscious decision to not do it as much. It’s just got to be right, because, you know, my mom is the undisputed queen of rom-coms. So I can’t just get into that space, it’s got to be right.”
He continued when pressed on the topic: “No matter what I do, people are going to call attention to it. People have called me a ‘nepo baby’. I’m inclined to agree. I am an immensely privileged person, was able to get representation pretty early on, and that’s more than half the battle. I knew the door was open for me in a lot of ways that it’s just not for a lot of actors. And I’ve just tried to work as hard as I possibly can to prove that I deserve to walk through that door.”
In December last year, Meg Ryan pushed back against labelling her son Jack as a ‘nepo baby’: “Jack is really talented. He’s more of a natural than I’ll ever be. That nepo stuff is so dismissive of his work ethic, his gifts, and how sensitive he is to the idea of his privilege.”
Jack Quaid explained to The Daily Beast that he doesn’t agree with his mother, but also doesn’t think she was dismissing the label: “My first thought was like, she’s being a mom. She’s being a loving mom. But I don’t think she’s trying to say that I’m not a nepo baby. I think she’s just trying to say that, in her opinion, it undermines my talent. I don’t think it undermines my talent.”
He continued: “I know that I work hard, and I know I’ve heard ‘no’ way more than I’ve heard ‘yes’. But I also know that this industry is insanely hard to break into, and I had an easier time doing that than most. Both things can be true. So no, I don’t think she was trying to say that I’m not a privileged person. She knows. She must know. I think she was being a mom.”
In a four-star review of The Boys season four, Ali Shutler wrote for NME: “With season five already confirmed, the return of a few familiar faces and a lot of characters confronting their pasts, this season sometimes feels like the set up for an eventual endgame scenario… Luckily, all that plot never slows down the pace in what is another urgent edition of TV’s best superhero show.”
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