Read quickly, the headline is impressive: ‘Scorsese and Spielberg are going to star in a Christmas comedy.’ At a second glance, the headline is almost even more surprising: ‘Francesca Scorsese and Sawyer Spielberg are going to star in a Christmas comedy.’ Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point, the second work by a semi-unknown director called Tyler Taormina, has already become one of the most anticipated and talked about premieres of the upcoming Cannes festival due to the illustrious surnames of its cast. The film, which will narrate the tensions and quarrels of a family’s past during a Christmas Eve dinner, arrives at the contest with the award of virality already achieved, boosted by both the joy of those who long to see the children of two legends – and close friends – take their first steps in acting together as if by accusations of undisguised nepotism in Hollywood for decades. “Crazy”, “hilarious” or “pathetic” are some of the adjectives that tweeters have dedicated to this professional marriage between two of the nepo babies highlights of the hills of Los Angeles. “They should have involved a Coppola too,” says another.
Although their professional paths will converge in the film contest in just a few days, their media career has been radically opposite. At 24 years old, Francesca Scorsese, youngest daughter of the filmmaker and book editor Helen S. Morris, has become one of the most famous figures in the Hollywood universe in recent years. Although she debuted as an actress in series like We are who we are (by Luca Guadagnino), has been his talent as tiktoker –exceeds 200,000 followers– which has catapulted her to fame. The videos with his father, in which he teaches him Generation Z slang or urges him to choose his favorite movie by moving his head in different directions, accumulate millions of views and several media outlets attribute the good results among young viewers. from the filmmaker’s latest film, The Moon Killers, to the influence of his daughter in the campaign to promote it. Unlike other posh ‘children’, Francesca, who spent her childhood afternoons playing with DiCaprio and can call Robert De Niro her godfather, recognizes the privileges of her surname and aspires to be “the best nepo baby “whatever it may be.” “Of course I have advantages in many things, I am very lucky. So the only thing I can do is continue to be humble, down-to-earth and pamper my friends as much as I can,” she said in Nylon.
On the contrary, Sawyer Spielberg, one of the six children of the director of Schindler’s List and actress Kate Capshaw doesn’t even have social networks. Although, like Francesca, she also spent her childhood on the sets of some of the greatest works of the seventh art, at 32 years old she flees from any type of media exposure. In the three years that have passed since his debut as a lead actor in a feature film he has barely given interviews, he avoids appearing with his father on camera and seems allergic to red carpets. It was precisely this year when the majority public became aware of his existence thanks to a small supporting role in the Apple TV + series The masters of the air, produced by its parent. Married to fellow performer Raye Levine and father of a child together, Spielberg has been dedicated exclusively to theater since he was 17, but his move to the big screen seems inevitable and he aspires to follow in the footsteps of his admired Javier Bardem. An acting vocation that awakened late in him and thanks, above all, to the efforts of his father, who turned the family home into a film set. “When I was a teenager, it was very difficult for me to get up to go to school. One morning he came in and said, ‘Okay, I’m the director and you’re the actor. I’m going to barge into your room and you have to get up, brush your teeth, get dressed and go down to breakfast.’ And so it was: he came in, said ‘action’ and I got up, brushed my teeth, went downstairs to have breakfast and everything went well. “His directing skills have worked both in the cinema and at home,” evoked on the Drew Barrymore show.
The proliferation of ‘children of’ in the cinema mecca was already one of the great topics of discussion in the entertainment industry in 2023. With the headline He has his mother’s eyes, and so does his agentjournalist Nate Jones sparked controversy when analyzing in the magazine Vulture the privileges and handicaps experienced by a very long list of names, among which Dakota Johnson, John David Washington, Zoe Kravitz, Maude Apatow, Maya Hawke and Lily-Rose Depp stood out. “The controversy over nepotism in Hollywood began to brew at the beginning of the pandemic, which strengthened the adverse reaction against celebrities and highlighted the importance of their dynastic ties,” wrote Jones. Shortly after the publication of the report, the first trailer of a short film was released that ended up overwhelming the indignation of Twitter users. Let Me Go (The Right Way) –which can be seen here– tells the story of a young soldier who seeks help for his traumas from a psychiatrist, and also encapsulates the most pedigree per minute of footage. Its director is Destry Spielberg (Steven’s daughter and who is already preparing her feature debut), its screenwriter is Owen King (first-born of the famous writer Stephen King) and its protagonist is Hopper Penn, son of Sean Penn and Robin Wright. However, there is a staunch defender of plugism in the hills of Los Angeles. “Nepo baby is a very ugly nickname. No one makes fun of a child when they say, ‘I want to be a doctor like my father and my grandfather,’ argues Gwyneth Paltrow, daughter of an actress and producer, who now sees how the comments about her eldest daughter, Apple, rated as new, are gaining strength. it girl’ of fashion at 19 years old. Will we soon see her walking the red carpets in Cannes or Venice?
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