Oliver’s 12-year-old is getting a TV show; Sandler’s teenagers star in his new movie. That doesn’t leave much for the ‘normies’, writes Arwa Mahdawi
I’m not criticising any of the kids. They are making use of the opportunities they were given, just like any of us normies would. Still, it does increasingly feel as if every other person in the creative industries these days is the offspring of someone famous.
This is what people are angry about when they rail against “nepo babies”. They are not resentful of the individuals, they are resentful of the system. Creative work shouldn’t be a privileged path that only the rich and connected can afford to tread. Yet that is increasingly what it is. And the arts are all the poorer because of it.
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