Hopper Penn is an actor with famous parents but says he’s not a “nepo baby” and he doesn’t care what people think of him. The son of actor Sean Penn and House of Cards star Robin Wright is rejecting any notion that he is a “nepo baby,” the kids of famous parents.
Penn stars in Devil’s Peak with his mother and during a recent interview opened up about what he thinks of the infamous label. “I don’t give a s*** about that, because I’m not one,” Penn told Yahoo!
Entertainment. Penn recalled the time he worked on Let Me Go the Right Away, a film directed by Steven Spielberg’s daughter Destry and written by Stephen King’s son Owen. “It came up when we were shooting,” Penn said. “Destry had shown me an article calling it a ‘nepotism film’ and I just laughed about it.
I was like, ‘They’re just pissed that they’re not in the movie!’ And then Ben Stiller backed us up, and he also comes from an actor family.
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