Why Nepo Babies Don't Get Biopics

Nepo babies! Don’t well all love ‘em?! Or at least talking about them. Well, it doesn’t really matter whether we do or don’t, actually, as nepo babies are a systemic issue that needs discussing, especially in the context of the world as it is today. Because it’s not even about the individual per se, it’s about what they represent. Much the same way that the fact that individual members of the royal family can be more sympathetic or ‘relatable’ (if you ever think that word can apply to literal royalty) than others doesn’t change the structural, anti-egalitarian, regressive effect they have on the country and the world simply by being members of the royal family, so too does the talent or history of hard work applicable to an particular nepo baby doesn’t change the fact that the circumstances of their birth and upbringing had a huge effect on their career path. It’s as simple as that.

It’s not that the children of great artists can’t also create great art, or that they can create it with zero effort, it’s just that there are a billion other individuals who might also have been able to do so, but who were never afforded the chance because capitalism said: ‘No, live paycheck to paycheck or starve.’ In an era where art is the preserve of the rich and connected to a suffocating degree, the issue of privilege and who gets a chance at creating that art is not going away. Sorry, nepo babies. Unless the conditions go away, the subject is not going away.

To wit, another addition to the discourse, courtesy of Ryan George of Pitch Meeting fame: