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Jess Hardiman
Kate Hudson has argued she sees nepotism ‘way more’ in other industries than in Hollywood, having recently been named as part of a ‘nepo baby-boom’ feature in New York magazine.
Hudson was one of a number of celebrities listed in a feature about the influx of Hollywood’s ‘nepo babies’, the label given to offspring of well-known names, whose family links are thought to have helped them get ahead in Hollywood.
The cover stars for the story included Stranger Things star Maya Hawke, the daughter of Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke, Jack Quaid, whose famous parents are Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan, and Lily Rose Depp, the daughter of Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis.
Hudson - whose parents are actors Goldie Hawn and Bill Hudson, although she considers Kurt Russell to be the one who helped raise her over her biological dad - was also among those in a chart created for the nepo baby feature.
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However, she claims not to ‘care’ about the discourse, having said in a new interview with the Independent that she simply comes from a family of ‘storytellers’.
She said: “The nepotism thing, I mean... I don’t really care.
“I look at my kids and we’re a storytelling family. It’s definitely in our blood. People can call it whatever they want, but it’s not going to change it.”
The Glass Onion star went on to argue that nepotism was actually more prevalent in other industries.
She continued: “I actually think there are other industries where it’s [more common]. Maybe modelling? I see it in business way more than I see it in Hollywood. Sometimes I’ve been in business meetings where I’m like, wait, whose child is this? Like, this person knows nothing!”
Hudson added: “I don’t care where you come from, or what your relationship to the business is – if you work hard and you kill it, it doesn’t matter.”
Jamie Lee Curtis is another name to have recently weighed in on the nepo baby debate, proudly describing herself as the ‘OG’.
Taking to her Instagram account, she shared a picture of herself with her Hollywood star parents Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh.
She wrote: "I have been a professional actress since I was 19 years old so that makes me an OG Nepo Baby.
"I've never understood, nor will I, what qualities got me hired that day, but since my first two lines on Quincy as a contract player at Universal Studios to this last spectacular creative year some 44 years later, there's not a day in my professional life that goes by without my being reminded that I am the daughter of movie stars.
"The current conversation about nepo babies is just designed to try to diminish and denigrate and hurt."