The “nepo baby” label has plagued Hollywood for years at this point, as the world debates the merits and potential stardom of the newest crop of second-generation actors. Even though the trend of multiple generations of actor families have been around since… basically the dawn of Hollywood, the modern discourse surrounding it has been something else.
As it turns out, one of the actors caught in the fray of that conversation has a pretty hilarious outlook on it all. Michael Gandolfini, star of Daredevil: Born Again and the son of late The Sopranos star James Gandolfini, recently explained it during an appearance on Gianmarco Soresi’s podcast The Downside. Gandolfini revealed a “bit” that he has with Cooper Hoffman, the son of fellow late actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, where they argue that having a dead parent counteracts the “nepo baby” label.
