Tom Hanks describes Hollywood as a ‘family enterprise’ amid ongoing nepo baby’ debate
It looks like “America’s Dad” Tom Hanks He is proud to be a Nepo Dad. A new interview was conducted with the British newspaper. The SunThe Oscar-winning star of Cast Away And Captain Phillips Hanks acknowledged that his four adult children were all involved in the entertainment industry. Hanks said, “Look, this business is family-owned,” during an interview about the latest film. Otto, the Man Who Called Himself a ManHis younger son, Truman Hanks plays a younger version in flashbacks. “This is what we’ve been doing forever … it’s what all our kids grew up in.”
Hanks said, “If we owned a plumbing supply company or ran a florist shop down the road, everyone would put in some time at one point,” Hanks added. “The thing that doesn’t change — no matter what your last name is — is whether it works or not.”
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Hanks’s remarks follow a blockbuster New York magazine story devoted to the “nepo baby” This conversation is happening both within and outside Hollywood, where a number of celebrities’ offspring are starting their own careers as actors/directors. It’s a topic that touches on the intersection of opportunity and privilege, and has already elicited a range of reactions from many “nepo babies.” Kate Hudson And Allison Williams To Jamie Lee Curtis And Lily-Rose Depp.
Speaking with Yahoo Entertainment last year, Schuyler Fisk and Jake Hoffman — whose famous parents are Sissy Spacek and Dustin Hoffman respectively — addressed the subject as well. Fisk explained that for him, the best thing was growing up in a family with parents who were involved in projects and working hard. Before I began doing projects, I didn’t really think about the negatives. Evidently people are curious about you based upon your parents. So they asked: “Aren’t your worried about being compared with your mom?” “I thought, “Maybe I’m now, because everyone else’s!”
Hoffman stated that “a lot of people think that being the child or grandchild of someone well-known will mean you won’t be in that situation.” It’s a disadvantage and not an advantage, or it was for me. I was not a prodigy so I had to learn the hard way that getting into rooms without being ready isn’t going to help.
In the case of the extended Hanks family, Tom Hanks has two children — Colin, 45 and Elizabeth, 40 — with his first wife, Samantha Lewes (who died in 2002), and two children, Chet, 32, and Truman, 27, with current spouse, Rita Wilson. When they were young, Elizabeth and Colin made their first screen appearances together. His sister, Rita Wilson, balances her career as an author/journalist with occasional performances. Chet is a well-known musician who has also appeared in television shows like Empire And ShamelessTruman and he have held various positions as crew members on such movies. Black Widow And West Side StorySteven Spielberg, his frequent collaborator, directed “The Greatest Showmanship”
Hanks stated, “They are all very creative and they all get involved in some kind of storytelling.” The Sun His children’s creative pursuits are not guaranteed success. He stressed this to his children. That’s the problem whenever we try to tell a new story or create something with a beginning, middle, and end. It doesn’t matter who our last names were, we must do the work to create an authentic experience for our audience. That’s a lot more work than worrying about whether someone’s going try to harm us.
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