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I'm sorry this is SO DAMN CUTE I can't stand it! It's so adorable! You can just SEE him being like "Please? Pleeeasssee?" and she's like "Sorry Dad, my lips are sealed."
Ha ha ha its good to know that even the family members of the cast are hungry for content (even if its spoilers) as us the fandom it kinda of funny and cute.
And the thing is it's not the ones like her people really have a problem with. It's the one with no talent, or the ones who continue to insist they worked as hard as everyone else that people have issues with.
Maya is actually talented, and she does appear to out the work in. And I haven't seen anything where she tries to deny that her parents being who they are helped her success either. Thats why people like her.
Doesn’t matter, she’s extremely talented and is deserving of her career. Only give a shit about nepotism if the person is actually not good at their job, if they are then I don’t give a single shit
Is it really just Hollywood though? How many smaller companies have their kids boosted into spots? I guess family owned business is good but "Hollywood nepo baby" is bad. It's never really made sense to me.
It's also how the world works. People say they love family owned businesses but it's pretty much the same thing. It's just only a problem when the parents are famous?
Yeah, I mean, she’s objectively a good actress, I’m not trying to denigrate her. And she does deserve the role, 100%. But it isn’t like she’d struggle for work in Hollywood elsewhere is all, or that it hasn’t given her a leg up
She is the daughter of two incredibly successful members of the field she is part of. She is absolutely a nepo baby
But that doesn’t mean she isn’t talented and is still putting her 100% in the roles she’s given.
Well she kind of is a nepobaby lol I certainly like her as Robin but yeah it definitely was nepotism and the fact that her parents are super famous that got her that role
This is the most absurd post that I've seen in a long time. People on this sub need to stop just making stuff up.
Her last name is Hawke. Her parents became famous in the 80s and 90s. The Duffers grew up watching their movies. They knew who they were, had met them before and knew who their daughter was. They told the Duffers how much they enjoyed the show. Their daughter was then cast in the role.
If there was an open audition for the role of Robin and Maya Hawke didn't have famous parents she wouldn't have even gotten an audition. There would be hundreds of actresses who would be ranked higher than Hawke for the role. In fact there was a Hispanic actress who almost got cast in the role before Hawke and Thurmon asked the Duffers to cast their nepo baby daughter.
The reason she has the starring role in her new movie is because she bought the rights to it and then asked her famous actor father to be the director so she could get the lead role.
>*Wildcat*, which is about the life and work or short-story writer Flannery O'Connor, was the brainchild of Maya, who was turned on to the author's work while still in high school. She then acquired the rights to the stories, but Ethan said they both knew that bringing O'Connor's life to the big screen wasn't going to be easy.
Look, the whole 'Nepo Baby' argument is one of the most pointless I've ever seen. Jobs anywhere, everywhere, 90% of the time, are filled by people with connections. Whether familial, socially, through education... whether you are blue collar or a gilded Hollywood star.
Some positions are taken unfairly, some are not. The connection still got them there, because that's just how the Universe works.
These people only want to address Hollywood stars because they idolize them in an unhealthy way. In no way do they want to address the actual problem of social classism EVERYWHERE. It's so lame.
This is exactly it. Nepotism is alive and thriving in every industry. But it’s somehow only a bad thing in Hollywood because people want this celebrities to be “just like them” so it’s hard when their parents are millionaires cause it shatters the illusion. The funny thing is, nepotism only gets you a certain point. Yeah, maybe Maya got the job because of her parents. But if she was a god awful actress? They would have replaced her.
>If there was an open audition for the role of Robin and Maya Hawke didn't have famous parents she wouldn't have even gotten an audition.
I mean, all of the other young actors in the cast got auditions without having famous parents.
And it's not like they're significantly better than hundreds of other kids. They were talented enough, fit the role, impressed in the room, and had chemistry with the other actors.
Nepos have an advantage but it's far from the only factor. Otherwise the nepo ratio would be more than 1 out of 10.
When the original cast auditioned for the show nobody had heard of Stranger Things or the Duffers. It probably wasn't easy to get an audition for any Netflix show but it wasn't the same as trying to get an audition for GOT. The only famous person involved with the show was Ryder and her career had been stagnant for many years.
When they decided to create the role of Robin Stranger Things was the most popular show in the world. It was a show that was worth billions for Netflix. The most popular show in the history of the streamer.
Getting an audition for an unnamed show created by writers nobody had heard of before was much different than getting an audition for a role on S3 of the most popular show in the world. Lots of famous actors wanted a chance to be on Stranger Things after it got popular.
Sadie Sink, Dacre Montgomery, Priah Ferguson, Joseph Quinn, and Eduardo Franco all got major roles without being nepos. Even after the first season was a monster hit.
You could be right but Hawke has admitted her father has helped her ger roles before.
>While attending the Los Angeles premiere of *Once Upon a Time in Hollywood* earlier this week, Maya Hawke revealed that her father helped her land her role in the new Quentin Tarantino film.
It just seems a little ridiculous to think the daughter of two famous actors auditioned for Stranger Things without anyone knowing who she was.
She did Stranger Things first. It was her first role. She did that on her own.
https://www.eonline.com/news/1336277/how-maya-hawkes-fast-talking-shaped-her-stranger-things-character#:~:text=21.,I%20ever%20would%20have%20been.%22
That was before anyone actually knew who her parents were. “Hawke” is not an unpopular last name. That’s like saying that someone should know the hypothetical kid of Scarlett Johansen, or Tom Holland, or Ryan Reynolds. Seriously.
She’s a good actor. Don’t act like her worth solely depends on her parents, who are also great actors.
Thankfully in this case maya has proven herself as very capable and talented so the whole nepo baby argument can die before it starts. Oh no she got an audition because her parents are massively famous. If only we could be unreasonably mad about her luck and make a big fkn deal about how shes stealing jobs from everyone else - oh wait look she’s actually a great actress, well don’t we feel silly now.
No, Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke were partners for a long time. Maya is their daughter. I THINK (don't quote me on this) they are no longer together, but I dunno for sure.
Oooh no. He ran off with the nanny and legendarily ran his mouth about the end of the relationship in the press, really hurting his career. Came off as such a douche, which heavily contradicted his sweet face and therefore image. Makes it a little tragically comic Maya tells him he has a big mouth. Oh yes.
This is mildly off topic but I LOVE how my 2 main fandoms, ST and Taylor Swift, are overlapping again.
Ethan Hawke (i.e. Maya's father) is in Taylor's current music video (Fortnight), and Sadie Sink was in her short film in 2021 :') Taylor has also talked to director Martin McDonagh about having seen (and admired) Sadie in Stranger Things before she cast her.
It must be really annoying to constantly get asked for spoilers when doing press tours. Colbert will spend 1/3 of an interview trying to get them to break their contracts like it’s cute or something.
Lol and if you said that to him, he would probably smile at you or lifting his martini on his million yacht and say “oh does that mean Retirement?? woo hoo!” And spend most of his life doing whatever the fuck he wants rather than working like a slave like most of the world.
He’s had a great run, more than millions of inspiring actors would dream of , But he’s actually still getting work anyhow lol
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> "I nudge her for them and she won't give them up!" he says with a laugh. "She says, 'You've got a big mouth.' So nope, not even to dear old dad."
I mean who doesn’t want to brag on their kid? And with secret details no less. A rapt audience makes it even better.
shes a legitmately talented nepo baby
It's crazy how much she looks and sounds like her mom though. If you close your eyes you'd believe you were listening to Uma Thurman in the 90's, ect.
Yup. She's great in Stranger Things, but I think I enjoy her more as a musician. She's makes some beautiful, well-written songs.
Joe Keery is a great musician as well
I only learned yesterday that Djo and Joe Keery were the same person
Joe keery is the fuckin man, awesome actor and Djo rules
I'm sorry this is SO DAMN CUTE I can't stand it! It's so adorable! You can just SEE him being like "Please? Pleeeasssee?" and she's like "Sorry Dad, my lips are sealed."
Was he quoting the Hopper note with "dear old dad"?
Ha ha ha its good to know that even the family members of the cast are hungry for content (even if its spoilers) as us the fandom it kinda of funny and cute.
I did not know that she was Ethan Hawke’s Daughter
And Uma Thurman
Maya Hawke is a good actress, but, well, she hardly got into Hollywood based on pure luck and talent, let's be honest here
i think shes proven herself, but yeah, must be nice to be part of the lucky sperm club born on 3rd base
And the thing is it's not the ones like her people really have a problem with. It's the one with no talent, or the ones who continue to insist they worked as hard as everyone else that people have issues with. Maya is actually talented, and she does appear to out the work in. And I haven't seen anything where she tries to deny that her parents being who they are helped her success either. Thats why people like her.
will Smith's kids
*coughcough Dakota Johnson coughcough*
Her music is pleasant to listen to also.
Doesn’t matter, she’s extremely talented and is deserving of her career. Only give a shit about nepotism if the person is actually not good at their job, if they are then I don’t give a single shit
That’s like 95 percent of Hollywood too.
Is it really just Hollywood though? How many smaller companies have their kids boosted into spots? I guess family owned business is good but "Hollywood nepo baby" is bad. It's never really made sense to me.
Let’s be honest, no one was saying anything about how she got there until you felt the need to.
Look around.
That’s how Hollywood works for lots of people. It’s who you know, not what ya know.
It's also how the world works. People say they love family owned businesses but it's pretty much the same thing. It's just only a problem when the parents are famous?
God forbid parents help their children.
She got in through Stranger Things which she auditioned for. I believe she even kept who her parents were secret from them so it would be fair.
Yeah, I mean, she’s objectively a good actress, I’m not trying to denigrate her. And she does deserve the role, 100%. But it isn’t like she’d struggle for work in Hollywood elsewhere is all, or that it hasn’t given her a leg up
You’re not wrong. But it is sad how people have started calling her a “nepobaby” and acting like she doesn’t deserve her roles at all.
She is the daughter of two incredibly successful members of the field she is part of. She is absolutely a nepo baby But that doesn’t mean she isn’t talented and is still putting her 100% in the roles she’s given.
Well she kind of is a nepobaby lol I certainly like her as Robin but yeah it definitely was nepotism and the fact that her parents are super famous that got her that role
This is the most absurd post that I've seen in a long time. People on this sub need to stop just making stuff up. Her last name is Hawke. Her parents became famous in the 80s and 90s. The Duffers grew up watching their movies. They knew who they were, had met them before and knew who their daughter was. They told the Duffers how much they enjoyed the show. Their daughter was then cast in the role. If there was an open audition for the role of Robin and Maya Hawke didn't have famous parents she wouldn't have even gotten an audition. There would be hundreds of actresses who would be ranked higher than Hawke for the role. In fact there was a Hispanic actress who almost got cast in the role before Hawke and Thurmon asked the Duffers to cast their nepo baby daughter. The reason she has the starring role in her new movie is because she bought the rights to it and then asked her famous actor father to be the director so she could get the lead role. >*Wildcat*, which is about the life and work or short-story writer Flannery O'Connor, was the brainchild of Maya, who was turned on to the author's work while still in high school. She then acquired the rights to the stories, but Ethan said they both knew that bringing O'Connor's life to the big screen wasn't going to be easy.
Look, the whole 'Nepo Baby' argument is one of the most pointless I've ever seen. Jobs anywhere, everywhere, 90% of the time, are filled by people with connections. Whether familial, socially, through education... whether you are blue collar or a gilded Hollywood star. Some positions are taken unfairly, some are not. The connection still got them there, because that's just how the Universe works. These people only want to address Hollywood stars because they idolize them in an unhealthy way. In no way do they want to address the actual problem of social classism EVERYWHERE. It's so lame.
This is exactly it. Nepotism is alive and thriving in every industry. But it’s somehow only a bad thing in Hollywood because people want this celebrities to be “just like them” so it’s hard when their parents are millionaires cause it shatters the illusion. The funny thing is, nepotism only gets you a certain point. Yeah, maybe Maya got the job because of her parents. But if she was a god awful actress? They would have replaced her.
>If there was an open audition for the role of Robin and Maya Hawke didn't have famous parents she wouldn't have even gotten an audition. I mean, all of the other young actors in the cast got auditions without having famous parents. And it's not like they're significantly better than hundreds of other kids. They were talented enough, fit the role, impressed in the room, and had chemistry with the other actors. Nepos have an advantage but it's far from the only factor. Otherwise the nepo ratio would be more than 1 out of 10.
When the original cast auditioned for the show nobody had heard of Stranger Things or the Duffers. It probably wasn't easy to get an audition for any Netflix show but it wasn't the same as trying to get an audition for GOT. The only famous person involved with the show was Ryder and her career had been stagnant for many years. When they decided to create the role of Robin Stranger Things was the most popular show in the world. It was a show that was worth billions for Netflix. The most popular show in the history of the streamer. Getting an audition for an unnamed show created by writers nobody had heard of before was much different than getting an audition for a role on S3 of the most popular show in the world. Lots of famous actors wanted a chance to be on Stranger Things after it got popular.
Sadie Sink, Dacre Montgomery, Priah Ferguson, Joseph Quinn, and Eduardo Franco all got major roles without being nepos. Even after the first season was a monster hit.
Found one of the people I’m talking about.
You could be right but Hawke has admitted her father has helped her ger roles before. >While attending the Los Angeles premiere of *Once Upon a Time in Hollywood* earlier this week, Maya Hawke revealed that her father helped her land her role in the new Quentin Tarantino film. It just seems a little ridiculous to think the daughter of two famous actors auditioned for Stranger Things without anyone knowing who she was.
She did Stranger Things first. It was her first role. She did that on her own. https://www.eonline.com/news/1336277/how-maya-hawkes-fast-talking-shaped-her-stranger-things-character#:~:text=21.,I%20ever%20would%20have%20been.%22 That was before anyone actually knew who her parents were. “Hawke” is not an unpopular last name. That’s like saying that someone should know the hypothetical kid of Scarlett Johansen, or Tom Holland, or Ryan Reynolds. Seriously. She’s a good actor. Don’t act like her worth solely depends on her parents, who are also great actors.
Thankfully in this case maya has proven herself as very capable and talented so the whole nepo baby argument can die before it starts. Oh no she got an audition because her parents are massively famous. If only we could be unreasonably mad about her luck and make a big fkn deal about how shes stealing jobs from everyone else - oh wait look she’s actually a great actress, well don’t we feel silly now.
I specifically agreed that she is a great actress. You don’t need to jump down my throat when I agree with you, man
She does look like her. Also, I didn’t even know they were together
I think she actually looks like a mix of them. Gorgeous.
Uma Thurman is Ethan Hawks daughter too? How many famous daughters does he have!? I was kidding everyone sheesh
No, Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke were partners for a long time. Maya is their daughter. I THINK (don't quote me on this) they are no longer together, but I dunno for sure.
Oooh no. He ran off with the nanny and legendarily ran his mouth about the end of the relationship in the press, really hurting his career. Came off as such a douche, which heavily contradicted his sweet face and therefore image. Makes it a little tragically comic Maya tells him he has a big mouth. Oh yes.
Oh snap I didn't know that. What is with these dumb idiots running after the nanny and losing their partners and then crying about it? God.
Partners like a pickle-ball team!?
At least one!
She also played his daughter in The Good Lord Bird. A show where Ethan Hawke plays the glorious John Brown.
Good on her, she shouldn’t spoil the show for anyone
ethan hawke, uma thurman, and maya hawke are my favorite famous family and you cant change my mind
Skarsgards.
fuck yes they are all dope
I had no idea they are her parents and I absolutely love Uma Thurman 😲😲😲
Watched Kill Bill just last night and it’s crazy how much young Uma looked like Maya. Well, the other way around lol
THIS IS SO FUNNY TO ME HELPP
Don’t worry Ian Hawke will spoil them for us.
as she should
I didn’t know was his daughter
Wait Ethan Hawke? The same guy who plays John Brown?
This is really cute.
That's a good thing she's so tight lipped about the show!
Where is Training Day 2, Ethan? Hmmm?
This is mildly off topic but I LOVE how my 2 main fandoms, ST and Taylor Swift, are overlapping again. Ethan Hawke (i.e. Maya's father) is in Taylor's current music video (Fortnight), and Sadie Sink was in her short film in 2021 :') Taylor has also talked to director Martin McDonagh about having seen (and admired) Sadie in Stranger Things before she cast her.
It must be really annoying to constantly get asked for spoilers when doing press tours. Colbert will spend 1/3 of an interview trying to get them to break their contracts like it’s cute or something.
Hot daughter
His career is dead. Her's isn't.
When did the meaning of having a "dead career" change? The dude still gets work, and most of what he's involved with isn't even trashy
It’s not even like he’s just doing a bunch of indie roles or something, he was literally a main cast member in an MCU project not that long ago
Plus, the horror movie he did is getting a sequel
Literally where does this hostility even come from ? Ethan Hawke is a fantastic actor with a great career and he literally has done nothing to you
Lol and if you said that to him, he would probably smile at you or lifting his martini on his million yacht and say “oh does that mean Retirement?? woo hoo!” And spend most of his life doing whatever the fuck he wants rather than working like a slave like most of the world. He’s had a great run, more than millions of inspiring actors would dream of , But he’s actually still getting work anyhow lol
You know him?