Emma Roberts throws George Clooney under the nepo baby bus for some reason

She does have a point. On the infamous New York Magazine cover, only three of the nine actors represented are male (John David Washington, Jack Quaid, and Ben Platt). But while these actors have certainly gotten their share of grief from the media, Roberts isn’t the first to call out the disparity. In a 2022 Elle profile, Lily-Rose Depp also commented, “I just hear it a lot more about women, and I don’t think that it’s a coincidence.”

On the podcast, Roberts also acknowledged that there were pros and cons to her privileged status. “Everybody loves the kind of overnight-success story. And so if you’re kind of not the girl from the middle of nowhere that broke into Hollywood, there’s kind of an eye roll of like, ‘Well, your dad was this,’” she said. “There’s two sides of the coin. People like to say, you know, you have a leg up because you have family in the industry. But then the other side to that is, you have to prove yourself more. Also, if people don’t have good experiences with other people in your family, then you’ll never get a chance.”

She suggested that detractors only ever see nepo babies’ “wins… because they only see when you’re on the poster of a movie—they don’t see all the rejection along the way.” “That’s why I’m always very open about things I’ve auditioned for and haven’t gotten the part for,” she concluded.

Roberts’ most recent role was in the latest series of American Horror Story. She currently has multiple projects in production, including Prime Video film Space Cadet, which premieres on the streamer July 4.