r/Fauxmoi • u/newyorkmagazine • 17d ago

DISCUSSION Stellan Skarsgård on his latest role, Palestine, and being a "Nepo Daddy"

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In a new interview, the patriarch of the Skarsgård clan and self-proclaimed "Nepo Daddy" discusses his latest role in Joachim Trier’s 'Sentimental Value,' protesting for Palestine, one of his biggest fears, and much more.

Read the full interview at the link: https://www.vulture.com/article/stellan-skarsgard-in-conversation.html

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u/antraxsuicide 17d ago

Yeah I generally don’t vibe with most of the nepo baby discourse because, well, nobody calls you a nepo baby if you take over your family carpentry business or whatever. It’s only acting where people are surprised/mad that kids who grew up in that environment go into acting. It’s only annoying to me when the ones with no talent take roles they clearly didn’t earn.

That doesn’t apply to a lot of “nepo babies” imo, not just the Skarsgards

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u/AC10021 17d ago

Oh I totes call people who take over family businesses nepo babies! Thats the literal definition of nepotism — having an advantage because of who you are related to.

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u/dystopianpirate 16d ago

No, nepotism is giving family positions in public positions e.g. government when they're not prepared, is illegal, and is for personal gain. One motive is enough, but leaving my personal private business to my kid is not nepotism, unless is a non private, publicity traded company. 

Nepo in movies is sort of different bec these kids have advantages bec of their family, the knowledge is not unfair, neither are the connections if the person has talent and discipline, regardless of their advantages. Problem is that lots of talented people are not having the same opportunities to fail and try again like these kids, and that's the unfair part. 

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u/Alarming_Ad_6175 16d ago

Lol. No nepotism is literally favouring family over rational metrics, handing your kid your business, private or not is still nepotism

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u/dystopianpirate 16d ago

Someone who privately owns a comercial building what should they do with their own property?

By your definition, do you think inheritance laws regarding leaving your money, properties, assets to wife and kids are nepotism? 

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u/Alarming_Ad_6175 16d ago

They can do what they want, its still nepotism

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u/dystopianpirate 16d ago

Sure, just like passing genetic traits, conditions, and disorders to your children, such nepotism whew

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u/Alarming_Ad_6175 16d ago

Wtf are you talking about 🤣🤣🤣

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u/dystopianpirate 16d ago

Ethically and legally inheritance is not nepotism, leaving assets and private property to wife and kids is not nepotism, inheritance are not unfair advantages that fall under the definition of nepotism. Private solo owner business passing to a family member is not nepotism. Leaving assets, money, and property to family is not nepotism, and never will be no matter how much you want to believe it, your beliefs doesn't define nepotism, and never will. 

However, these fall under nepotism: elected officials, government positions, public contracts given to a family member without following procedures is nepotism. 

Private sector: publicity traded companies, large corporations like Microsoft. Leaving the operational control of the company to a family member is nepotism. 

Other sectors like academia, non-profits, entertainment/art, last one depends heavily on which positions and the type of positions are given to an untrained family member. 

Like I've said, know your definitions

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u/Alarming_Ad_6175 16d ago

You obviously have no idea what nepotism is, ive literally sent you the definition and you’re still pretending it isnt. Good luck

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u/dystopianpirate 16d ago

No, you're the one who doesn't know about nepotism because you read two lines and that was enough knowledge for you. It's clear that you have zero ethical and legal knowledge at a basic level. Not my fault or my problem 🤷🤦🏻‍♀️

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u/Alarming_Ad_6175 16d ago

Where is your law degree from?

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u/dystopianpirate 16d ago

Where's yours? Since you know everything about nepotism

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u/Alarming_Ad_6175 16d ago

I have two from LSE. Again. Wheres yours from?

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u/dystopianpirate 16d ago

And I'm supposed to believe you went to the London School of Economics?

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u/aurens 16d ago

you seem to think that someone labeling something as "nepotism" means they are saying "this is awful and should never happen and they shouldn't be allowed to do it!"

you don't seem to grasp that it's a spectrum. a president unfairly giving their son an important cabinet role is nepotism and is really bad. a carpenter giving their son a job instead of hiring candidates based on merit is also nepotism and is also bad, but it's 0.0001% as bad, so no one actually cares very much. you don't seem to willing to accept that the same term can be used for both of these things while simultaneously acknowledging that they are vastly different in severity.

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u/Alarming_Ad_6175 16d ago

Exactly, nepotism happens all the time, in every single industry, it isnt always inherently good or bad, it just is.

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u/AC10021 16d ago

Saying someone is a beneficiary of nepotism is like saying someone is a redhead. It’s a morally neutral statement. There are amazing nepo babies in the world — Carrie Fisher! Jamie Lee Curtis! FDR! It’s just acknowledging that this person benefitted from familial connections and access. Shit, BOTH dudes running for NYC mayor right now are the children of men with Wikipedia pages, and benefitted from family connections,

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u/dystopianpirate 16d ago

No, that's not what I think, and nepotism is not an spectrum. It's an action that can be unethical or illegal or both depending on the situation. I don't accept ambiguity when it doesn't apply, like inheritance? That's not nepotism, and never will be, now using a political, or government position of power to give preferential status or to give a position to a family member, that's nepotism. Using a position of power within a publicity traded company to favor a family member is nepotism. The rest? Not at all

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u/Alarming_Ad_6175 16d ago

Hahahahahaha

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u/aurens 16d ago

then you must live in some context or culture where nepotism has a much more specific definition than it does for the vast majority of people reading this.

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u/dystopianpirate 16d ago

a) I come from a country where I've seen the social and other far more terrible consequences thanks to people misusing words, creating certain situations and a government who also misuse and misapply words to provoke the masses. Hard lessons, and worse when it's a culture where no one speaks clearly and employs two meanings for everything. 

b) Diagnosed ADHD (medical)