He’s brat.
Rob Lowe sees a similarity between the “nepo baby” and the “Brat Pack” labels — and will relate to each.
“It’s funny: I think the last time New York magazine coined a term as new and widely accepted and zeitgeisty as ‘nepo baby’ was probably when they coined the term the ‘Brat Pack.’ So I’ve kind of been there for both of them,” Lowe, 60, told Variety, in an interview printed Thursday.
“I understand the curiosity and appreciate it, but I don’t have the same kind of intensity around it. Nobody thinks twice when your kid joins the family plumbing business, or becomes a painter or an architect or a dentist, or becomes a second-generation doctor,” he defined. “So I don’t really see the novelty of it, but I understand it.”
“Nepo baby” is a time period that the hole coined in 2022, regarding actors who had oldsters additionally in showbiz — reminiscent of Maya Hawke, Jack Quaid, Wyatt Russell, Kaia Gerber, or Rob Lowe’s son, John Owen.
“Brat Pack” is a time period that the novel additionally coined many years previous, within the ’80s, regarding the crowd of actors in motion pictures reminiscent of “The Breakfast Club” and “St. Elmo’s Fire,” together with Lowe, Emilio Estevez, Molly Ringwald, Demi Moore, Best friend Sheedy, Judd Nelson, Anthony Michael Corridor and Andrew McCarthy.
As proven within the Hulu documentary “Brats” (now streaming), participants of the “Brat Pack” had a fraught courting with that time period.
“It created the perception that we were lightweights, that we didn’t take it seriously,” Estevez stated within the document.
Relating to his two sons, John Owen Lowe, 29, an actor who stars within the Netflix display “Unstable” along Rob, and Matthew, 31, Rob advised Selection, “I happily opened doors for Johnny in this business and my son Matthew, who’s an attorney. That’s what dads do, if they can. But the other side of it is — they’ve got to walk through the door. It’s like, you can get them on the team, but if they don’t put points on the board, they’re going to get cut.”
The “West Wing” alum stocks his sons with spouse Sheryl Berkhoff, 63, a former make-up artist who he’s been married to since 1991.
His son John additionally weighed in at the “nepo baby” label.
“I found personally that I had to face it head-on. Ignoring it didn’t feel true to form. It’s a very real thing — and I don’t want to speak to other people’s relationships to it,” he advised the hole.
“Everyone has their own and they’re entitled to it. But I know personally, if I were to come out and say, ‘Hey, this is something I don’t want to talk about,” or if I have been to mention one thing like, ‘Actually, it’s made my occupation tougher,’ none of this is true. It’s no longer true in my revel in, and I must be fair.”
On the moment that the “nepo baby” article got here out, Bono’s daughter, “Bad Sisters” big name Eve Hewson, tweeted mockingly about it, moment Kate Moss’s more youthful sister Lottie Moss had a since-deleted Twitter meltdown about it, pronouncing in now-deleted posts, “So instead of being negative about other peoples success, go and try and create your own!”
In the meantime, Meg Ryan and Dennis Quaid’s son, “The Boys” big name Jack Quaid, took it in stride, telling the Day-to-day Beast in July, “I know that I work hard, and I know I’ve heard no way more than I’ve heard yes. But I also know that this industry is insanely hard to break into, and I had an easier time doing that than most. Both things can be true.”
John Lowe perceived to additionally jerk the label in stride.
“I hope that all people are looking for in that regard is self-awareness, because humility and gratitude seem to be the resolution for the emotional conflict I feel around that — because there is some and there always will be,” he advised Selection.
“And I chose to write a show about it, and do a show with my dad. I made that bed, and I got to sleep in it.”
Within the documentary “Brats” on Hulu, Lowe stated, “There’s always going to be some perception that bumps up against how you see yourself. No one liked [the Brat Pack label].” He also referred to as it “mean spirited” and “an attempt that was to minimize our talents.”
However, the “Parks and Rec” actor advised Selection in regards to the brat bundle, “I look back at it with almost complete, 100% affection.”
Lowe added, “It feels kind of quaint. It’s such a specific moment in time, a moment in my life, a particular moment in terms of movies that people were making and were interested in.”
The previous “The Outsiders” big name added, “I’m super, super grateful that I got to be a part of it, and also super grateful that people are still interested and that we’re having this conversation about it, which is leading people back to watching those movies, which I loved being in.”
