‘I’m Still Here’ Star Fernanda Torres Slams Stigma Around Nepo Babies as ‘Ancient’ and ‘The Wrong Fight’ for Equality in Hollywood: I Proved ‘A Nepo Baby Life Is Worth Living’
Jack Dunn Fernanda Torres, the daughter of legendary Brazilian actress Fernanda Montenegro, is dispelling the stigma around nepo babies following her Golden Globe win.
While speaking with IndieWire after her Globe-winning turn in “I’m Still Here,” Torres bashed the negative stigma around nepo babies as an “ancient” idea, and deemed herself as the “nepo baby person that proved that a nepo baby is worth living.” “You don’t have to kill a nepo baby as soon as he is born,” Torres said. “I really hate this idea because this is ancient, that people learn in their environment.
The dining table of my house was the place where my parents were rehearsing. It doesn’t mean when you are a nepo baby that your life is solved.
On the contrary, you have to invent yourself. You have other issues.” The nepo baby label, which refers to actors or artists with rich or celebrity parents who are catapulted to success in their given field, exploded into the cultural zeitgeist after New York Magazine published a who’s who guide on nepo babies in entertainment.
