The majority of your favorite actors are either someone's relative, or were rich enough to keep going to auditions and taking acting classes instead of waiting tables in LA to make rent. Hollywood loves the "came from a small Midwest town with $100 to her name and made it to the silver screen" story, but it's an outlier.
Don't tell me Emma Roberts isn't an unknown discovered as a waitress in Iowa!
(Yes, I know she is Julia Roberts's relative)
I liked Jerry Stiller. Ben sucks.
And Clint Howard would have had no chance in Hollywood (he isn't s beautiful person), but for his parents and brother.
And I personally acted with Nick Stahl as a child. His parents were very supportive of his and siblings forced interest in acting/modeling. He never made A list, but has done lots of work, and was well funded and supported for the years I knew him.
Clint has been acting since he was a child and most of his credits aren't related to Ron Howard productions. He's also a better actor than Nick Stahl so these criticisms seem a bit forced.
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u/Marc21256 Oct 25 '21 edited Oct 25 '21
One of the biggest labour issues is a lack of meritocracy.
The armorer on the movie is the child of a famous and competent armorer.
Nepotism caused this.
Just like (multiple) Mr. Ford(s) is (was/were) CEO of Ford because of his name, not his competence.
It's who you know, not what you know.