Nepo infants like to trip on the White Lotus.
A number of actors with well-known dad and mom have been solid in Mike White’s hit HBO sequence.
Patrick Schwarzenegger, the son of actor Arnold Schwarzenegger and journalist Maria Shriver, and Sam Nivola, the son of actors Emily Mortimer and Alessandro Nivola, are taking part in brothers concerned in an incest storyline in Season 3.
Their co-star, Charlotte Le Bon (who performs Chloe), can also be a nepo child; she’s the daughter of Canadian actress Brigitte Paquette. Le Bon’s stepfather, Frank Schorpion, can also be an actor.
Jon Gries, who has performed Greg on all three seasons, comes from a Hollywood household as nicely. His late father is director and producer Tom Gries.
Moreover, Season 2 star Leo Woodall is said to a number of actors, together with the 1910s silent-film actor Maxine Elliott.
Though not a nepo child, Leslie Bibb’s position as Kate in Season 3 additionally helped carry her superfamous associate, Sam Rockwell, onto the scene as Rick’s (Walton Goggins) pal Frank.
By showing on “The White Lotus,” these nepo child actors have put within the work to flee the title that haunts so many Hollywood stars.
Schwarzenegger, 31, defended being solid within the present in an interview with the Sunday Instances in February, acknowledging, “I know there are people who’ll say I only got this role because of who my dad is.”
“They’re not seeing that I’ve had 10 years of acting classes, put on [high] school plays every week, worked on my characters for hours on end or the hundreds of rejected auditions I’ve been on,” he mentioned.
“Of course, it’s frustrating and you can get boxed in and you think at that moment, I wish I didn’t have my last name. But, that’s a small moment,” Schwarzenegger added.
However the “Gen V” star declared that he’d “never trade my life for anyone” and is grateful for “the parents that I have.”
The truth is, the label practically damage Schwarzenegger’s probabilities at his audition, as producer David Bernad revealed they “didn’t want to cast him” due to his well-known final identify.
However, he was “just so good,” he advised Folks.
In an interview with IndieWire, Schwarzenegger mentioned that he and Nivola, 21, by no means bonded over each being nepo infants whereas taking part in the Ratliff brothers.
“I’m embarrassed to say that I didn’t even know who Sam was or who his family was until like six months into the thing,” Schwarzenegger admitted. “He was, like, ‘Oh, I hope they don’t call me a nepo baby.’ And I was, like, ‘Why?’”
Nivola, for his half, advised the New Yorker again in 2022 that his well-known mother and pa “had always been really adamant about us not getting into that industry.”
“They were kind of pissed off,” Nivola mentioned, however they modified their tune as soon as he was solid in Noah Baumbach’s “White Noise.”
Paradoxically, Nivola is relationship fellow nepo child Iris Apatow, who’s the daughter of Judd Apatow and Leslie Mann, and youthful sister of “Euphoria” star Maude Apatow.
Nivola joked to British Vogue in January that his good friend group is like “some secret cabal of nepo kids who hang out in black robes.” The “Perfect Couple” star added, “My parents aren’t, like, total celebrities. They don’t get recognized in the street.”
Gries, 67, in the meantime, grew to become an actor at a younger age due to his father’s affect. Gries’ late dad directed and produced dozens of movies from the Fifties to the Nineteen Seventies. He additionally labored behind-the-scenes on exhibits like “Batman,” “Mission: Impossible,” “The Detectives” and “I Spy.”
“Even though my parents divorced when I was 13 and my father moved out, I would still go to sets with him and visit,” Gries mentioned in a 2022 interview.
“My father passed away when I was 19. I never wanted to do anything on his coattails anyway,” the “Lost” alum continued. “I was like, ‘Look, I love you and you’re my Pop, but I’m gonna do this on my own.’ It was a good preparation because of his untimely death, and then there was a long period of studying and working hard.”
Woodall, 28, has additionally spoken out about being a nepo child. His stepfather is “Monarch of the Glen” star Alexander Morton. And Elliott, Woodall’s distant relative on his mother’s aspect, was a well-known silent movie actress.
“They’d known so many actors in their lives, in the family and outside the family, and they knew how hard it could be,” Woodall advised the Guardian in 2024 of telling his dad and mom he determined to change into an actor. “I think they knew I’d probably end up being one.”
“I was so nervous about what my family would think of me as an actor,” the “One Day” star admitted. “Just, was I any good? I’ve always felt this personal pressure to make it. And they’ve always been wonderful and supportive.”
Bibb, 51, beforehand confirmed that Rockwell, 56, was invited to seem on Season 3 (and ship an iconic monologue) “very last-minute,” after she was already filming in Thailand.
“He was not sure about doing it just because he didn’t have proper prep time,” she recalled on “Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen” final month. “So we went on a safari in South Africa, and I was like, ‘I’ll get you off book. I’ll get you off book.’”
Bibb, who has been relationship the “Fosse/Verdon” star since 2007, advised EW she loved having her associate be a part of the present, regardless that they didn’t share scenes collectively.
“It’s nice to be able to have a context to share, and we’re lucky to have him,” she mentioned.
