Jack Quaid has two very famous parents and he’s been grouped in with all the other “nepo baby” stars in Hollywood.
The 32-year-old actor, best known for playing Hughie Campbell on The Boys, is perfectly fine with the label and he’s also reacting to mom Meg Ryan‘s comments defending him against the label.
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“I mean, no matter what I do, people are going to call attention to it. People have called me a ‘nepo baby,’” Jack told The Daily Beast. “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. So if that’s in the rom-com space, it’s got to be different enough, and I need to work my ass off.”
Meg told Glamour last year, “That nepo stuff is so dismissive of his work ethic, his gifts and how sensitive he is to the idea of his privilege.”
Jack responded to those comments.
“Yeah, I saw that too. 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 said. “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.”
Jack‘s dad is actor Dennis Quaid.
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