It has long been said that to put your best foot forward in Hollywood, you first need a foot in the door. However, years of quietly deploying family to find a way into film studios has been brought out into the open with the unmasking of the so-called “nepo babies” in hit shows.
Euphoria, for example, stars Maude Apatow, the daughter of the Hollywood stalwarts Judd Apatow and Leslie Mann; Stranger Things features Maya Hawke, daughter of Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman; while Jack Quaid, son of Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan, appears in The Boys.
A tweet about Apatow, 24, went viral after a Euphoria viewer lamented that she was a nepotism baby. Similar posts followed about Hawke. It was the beginning
