Scarlett Curtis, daughter of screenwriter Richard Curtis, has publicly disagreed with Kate Winslet's recent remarks dismissing the term 'nepo baby' as 'silly'. Winslet, promoting her directorial debut 'Goodbye June' written by her son Joe Anders, claimed her children had not received a 'leg up' in their careers.
In an Instagram post, Scarlett Curtis shared a clip of Winslet's BBC interview, writing: 'I love her so much, but I do hate this s***. Doctors and lawyers have to get degrees to follow in their parents footsteps. We have to literally just step out the door.' She argued that nepotism involves more than handouts, including growing up in a hard-to-penetrate world and learning to navigate it from a young age.
Curtis, who has written for The Guardian and Elle, also offered to teach a class on handling the nepo baby question in interviews, jokingly suggesting interested parties could email her father. Winslet had compared her children's careers to those of doctors and lawyers, saying they had 'carved their own paths' and needed to ignore 'silly terms like nepo baby'.
