Maya Hawke is not shy about being labeled a "nepo baby." In fact, she embraces it, and she even admits being a "nepo baby" is what landed her a role in Quentin Tarantino 's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood . Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman 's 25-year-old daughter made the revelation in a new interview with The Times of London, who headlined the profile "Maya Hawke: My life as a Hollywood nepo baby.
" In the lengthy interview, the actress recalled her 2019 Hollywood Reporter interview, in which she shared she "got an audition for the project through the normal channels through my agents [and] I did an audition in my bedroom with my dad ...
we sent in the tape to Quentin and I got a callback." In retrospect, Maya says she could have chosen her words a little more carefully. "I've been wildly made fun of for this clip when I said, on the red carpet, that I auditioned," she told The Times .
"I never meant to imply that I didn't get the part for nepotistic reasons -- I think I totally did." Maya landed the role of one of Charles Manson's followers, Flower Child. But Maya was far from the only actress in Tarantino's film with famous parents.
There was also Margaret Qualley (the daughter of Andie MacDowell) and Rumer Willis (the daughter of Bruce Willis). Earlier in the interview, Maya scoffed at the notion that she "deserves" her current status in Hollywood as a rising star who has put in the work long before she hit the screen -- from her productions in high school to attending the presti.
