Meg Ryan is not standing by silently and letting people label her actor son Jack Quaid a nepo baby, a term used for kids of famous parents. Quaid is the son of Ryan and actor Dennis Quaid. In a new…
    • NightOwl@lemmy.oneEnglish
      271·
      11 months ago

      If I were him only thing worse than being called a nepo baby would be my mom coming out publicly to tell people not to call me a nepo baby. That’s like further drawing anything to the issue and as embarrassing as a student would be of their parents loudly telling everyone in school to not be bullies.

      • ZeroCool@feddit.chOPEnglish
        15·
        11 months ago

        Yep, sounds like the Streisand effect. I’ve been watching him on The Boys for the last four years and never realized he was Jack Quaid as in Dennis Quaid’s kid. And I certainly didn’t realize his mother was Meg Ryan.

        “Don’t call my baby a nepo baby!”

        “Wait, the guy from The Boys is Meg Ryan’s kid?” lol

        • NightOwl@lemmy.oneEnglish
          6·
          11 months ago

          Same I know him from The Boys and never thought of him as the nepo baby, but now I’ll always be reminded of that. Didn’t know he was Meg Ryan’s kid either.

    • Slice@lemmy.world
      112·
      11 months ago

      He’s a voice actor/lead on lower decks (animated trek show) I liked him without knowing one of his parents ever got mail… so he holds his own, but privilege is privilege… He’s not not a nepo baby.