While Ben Platt has discussed his father’s job previously, he’s apparently done talking about him publicly. Or, at least, he’s done talking about the fact that his dad is the reason he has a career.
, speak to a theory I’ve had for a while now: I don’t think celebrities actually know what nepo baby discourse on the internet entails. To be fair, it’s a pretty pointless, circular conversation most of the time. It’s largely people sharing information they stumbled upon on Wikipedia with little commentary other than “How did I not know this??”
I would say that most of the nepo baby talk on Twitter, at least, is frivolous and uncritical—that is, unless you’re really bad at your job and have, therefore, wasted your privilege and the public’s time. Also, if you’re notably problematic, you can expect to get dragged.
That said, I don’t think anyone on the planet has ever argued that Ben Platt is untalented or undeserving of the spotlight. The comments that he was too old to play a high-schooler inwere completely valid, and the fact that he was the only performer from the stage production who appeared in the film seemed a bit questionable. Aside from that, I think he’s widely seen as an excusable nepo baby.
Clearly, Platt isn’t aware of how he’s perceived online, or maybe he doesn’t think he should have to be relegated to speaking about his dad all the time. Either way, ignoring this question altogether is a pretty dumb tactic, in my opinion—and not just because he gave
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