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. The article caused an uproar in Hollywood, but Torres feels this is “the wrong fight” if equality is ever going to be achieved in the industry.
“The good fight is to fight for good education for everybody,” Torres said. “Inequality is not based on the chances that a nepo baby can have. You can kill all the nepo babies in the world, and you won’t solve the inequality problem. Taxing big fortunes is a way of fighting against inequality. Fighting for health for everybody, for education for everybody.”
Torres continued, “Don’t kill the nepo babies! Nowadays, we are full of wrong fights. We’re full of noisy fights that don’t lead us to anything. The fight against inequality, the fight for taxing great fortunes, the fight for regulating the digital world, those are the good fights. Come on people, wake up.”
