Lily-Rose Depp gets candid in a number of ways for a new magazine interview, posing topless for the publication’s cover and acknowledging that she’s “privileged” in being able to follow her passions and pursue a high-flying career in modeling and acting.
But the 23-year-old daughter of Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis also admitted to i-D magazine that she needs to be more “careful” in sharing her thoughts about being one of the best known children of famous people who have been targeted in pop culture’s debate about “Nepo Babies.”
Lily-Rose, who became the brand ambassador for Chanel at age 15 after meeting its creative designer Karl Lagerfeld with her supermodel mother at age 8, stirred controversy in December when she chafed at the idea that her family connections helped her land splashy modeling gigs or parts in Hollywood film and TV projects.
In an interview with Elle, around the time that Vulture did its lengthy analysis of the Nepo Baby phenomenon, Lily-Rose Depp said: “People are going to have preconceived ideas about you or how you got there, and I can definitely say that nothing is going to get you the part except for being right for the part.”
While Lily-Rose admitted that having famous parents has “maybe” helped her get her foot in the door, she said “you still just have your foot in the door. There’s a lot of work that comes after that.”
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The I-d magazine story focuses on how Lily-Rose Depp is poised for superstardom with her starring role in HBO’s new series, “The Idol,” and her work on two upcoming films, including Robert Eggers’ take on “Nosferatu.”
When it comes to the “Nepo Baby” debate, Lily-Rose Depp said: “I’m so careful about these conversations now,” though she admitted that she’s “privileged enough to get to do the job that I’m so passionate about.”
“I feel like my parents did the best job that they possibly could at giving me the most ‘normal childhood’ that they could,” Lily-Rose Depp continued. “And obviously, that still was not a normal childhood. I’m super aware of the fact that my childhood did not look like everybody’s. But at the same time, it’s all that I know, so I have had to find comfort in it somehow. I’m really lucky that I’ve been surrounded by people who value normalcy and who value real life and I think that’s the only way to exist in this world and not go insane.”
Yes, it’s curious that Lily-Rose Depp would say that she comes from a family that values “normalcy,” given that her father spent the past decade being depicted as one of the most dissolute, self-indulgent movie stars in Hollywood history and going to court to battle allegations that he was an abusive husband.
In any case, Lily-Rose Depp also talked in the interview about being “plagued by imposter syndrome” — the idea that she doesn’t deserve the opportunities she’s been given. She also described the downsides of being from a famous family. One is that she can’t “smoke weed” unless she’s in her room because the substance messes with her head.
“I overthink, like, ‘If I leave my house and I look like (expletive” and someone takes a photo, is it going to be, ‘She looks like hell, she must be depressed?’ People are so quick to want to be like, ‘You’re doing badly.’”
Lily-Rose Depp gets candid in a number of ways for a new magazine interview, posing topless for the publication’s cover and acknowledging that she’s “privileged” in being able to follow her passions and pursue a high-flying career in modeling and acting.
But the 23-year-old daughter of Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis also admitted to i-D magazine that she needs to be more “careful” in sharing her thoughts about being one of the best known children of famous people who have been targeted in pop culture’s debate about “Nepo Babies.”
Lily-Rose, who became the brand ambassador for Chanel at age 15 after meeting its creative designer Karl Lagerfeld with her supermodel mother at age 8, stirred controversy in December when she chafed at the idea that her family connections helped her land splashy modeling gigs or parts in Hollywood film and TV projects.
In an interview with Elle, around the time that Vulture did its lengthy analysis of the Nepo Baby phenomenon, Lily-Rose Depp said: “People are going to have preconceived ideas about you or how you got there, and I can definitely say that nothing is going to get you the part except for being right for the part.”
While Lily-Rose admitted that having famous parents has “maybe” helped her get her foot in the door, she said “you still just have your foot in the door. There’s a lot of work that comes after that.”
lily-rose depp for i-d magazine pic.twitter.com/gJTtjAO7o2
— m (@milanoysl) February 21, 2023
The I-d magazine story focuses on how Lily-Rose Depp is poised for superstardom with her starring role in HBO’s new series, “The Idol,” and her work on two upcoming films, including Robert Eggers’ take on “Nosferatu.”
When it comes to the “Nepo Baby” debate, Lily-Rose Depp said: “I’m so careful about these conversations now,” though she admitted that she’s “privileged enough to get to do the job that I’m so passionate about.”
“I feel like my parents did the best job that they possibly could at giving me the most ‘normal childhood’ that they could,” Lily-Rose Depp continued. “And obviously, that still was not a normal childhood. I’m super aware of the fact that my childhood did not look like everybody’s. But at the same time, it’s all that I know, so I have had to find comfort in it somehow. I’m really lucky that I’ve been surrounded by people who value normalcy and who value real life and I think that’s the only way to exist in this world and not go insane.”
Yes, it’s curious that Lily-Rose Depp would say that she comes from a family that values “normalcy,” given that her father spent the past decade being depicted as one of the most dissolute, self-indulgent movie stars in Hollywood history and going to court to battle allegations that he was an abusive husband.
In any case, Lily-Rose Depp also talked in the interview about being “plagued by imposter syndrome” — the idea that she doesn’t deserve the opportunities she’s been given. She also described the downsides of being from a famous family. One is that she can’t “smoke weed” unless she’s in her room because the substance messes with her head.
“I overthink, like, ‘If I leave my house and I look like (expletive” and someone takes a photo, is it going to be, ‘She looks like hell, she must be depressed?’ People are so quick to want to be like, ‘You’re doing badly.’”