Zosia Mamet. Frederic J. Brown / AFP
Zosia Mamet is weighing on nepo baby discourse.
The Girls star says she faced challenges getting her big break in Hollywood, though she concedes that being the daughter of playwright and filmmaker David Mamet and actress Lindsay Crouse helped her get her foot within the door.
“I used to be actually met with more of a challenge. Because people knew I used to be coming in with a famous name, it meant that I used to be walking into the room with baggage,” Mamet, 36, told The Guardian in an interview published on Wednesday, July 24.
In accordance with the outlet, Mamet recalled “one casting director telling her she had ‘her mother’s lips’ and an audition where a producer had formerly had a nasty experience working along with her father.”
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Mamet continued, “It’s not such as you’re born to a famous family and the red carpet rolls out for you and your profession is made. Because also at the top of the day, in the event you’re not walking in and as much as the challenge, in the event you don’t have the talent or the power to back it up, a reputation can only get you up to now.”
Nevertheless, the actress, best known for enjoying Shosanna Shapiro on HBO’s Girls, admits that having famous relatives helped her in some ways. One in every of her early film roles was the 2004 motion thriller Spartan, directed by her father.
Zosia and David Mamet. Bruce Glikas/FilmMagic
“Did it potentially open some doors for me? Sure. I can’t argue that. I feel the largest thing that I felt it did was that growing up surrounded by the industry meant I used to be getting in with open eyes,” she said.
Mamet’s father was criticized earlier this 12 months after claiming that his daughter was not a nepo baby and had earned her profession by “merit.” He told an audience on the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books in April, “’No person ever gave my kids a job due to who they were related to.”
Mamet admits she gets “annoyed on the things my dad says.”
“My husband is all the time like: ‘Why do you let it affect you?’ I’m like, ‘Because he’s my father!’ I don’t know the right way to turn that switch off. But I even have tried to,” she said. “I suppose it’s type of my version of counting to 10 when he says s–t like that — I’m similar to: ‘OK, take a breath, count to 10, and let it go.’”
