Donald Glover Has Thoughts on Hollywood's Nepotism Children
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Turns out, Donald Glover and Gwyneth Paltrow have similar views on the children of celebrities.
In a new profile of Zoë Kravitz in WSJ Magazine, Glover shared, "I know she feels the pressure" to be seen as more than the "daughter of" Lenny Kravitz and Lisa Bonet. He compared Kravitz's career and work to working with Malia Obama on his upcoming Amazon show, Hive. (Malia is a writer on the show.)
"There’s always a pressure that’s like, ‘I actually have to do something that’s good, because otherwise people will say it’s not because of me being creative.'" Glover said.
Of Kravitz's new film, Pussy Island, Glover shared, "I think she just knows how the conversation is going to be. Her doing this script and directing it, I feel like she’s taking the risk to heart of like, ‘Yeah, you can’t say this is because of something else. Actually, this is my idea. This is my perception.’"
The comments about celebrity children feeling pressure to do something good were reminiscent of Paltrow's comments on nepotism.
"As the child of 'somebody', you get access that other people don't have. The playing field is not level in that way," Paltrow said recently. Yet, she then suggested that she had to work "twice as hard" as someone without connections, saying, "I really do feel that once your foot is in the door, which you unfairly got in, then you have to work almost twice as hard and be twice as good, because people are ready to pull you down and say 'You don’t belong there' or 'You are only there because of your dad or your mom.'"
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