Bryce Dallas Howard on the realities of being handed a head start
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Bryce Dallas Howard on the realities of being handed a head start

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 15, 202650 min
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The term “nepo baby” has been used in recent years to describe people who are born into successful families and industries with advantages that aren’t available to the average person. What does your success mean if you weren’t the one to earn it? Bryce Dallas Howard is the daughter of famous actor and director Ron Howard, and now a successful actress and director in her own right, having earned a Golden Globe nomination for her film adaptation of As You Like It and starring as Claire Dearing in the Jurassic World franchise. In this episode, Molly and Bryce sh...

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The term nepo baby is perfect. And I'm gonna share why. Now this is good polarizing, and I'm gonna say why it's perfect for me.

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Tell me. It needs to sting. So I'm going to tell you something today that I don't talk about very often. I was raised in a very famous family.

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My grandmother was Katherine Graham. She ran the Washington Post for almost 30 years, the first woman to ever run a Fortune 500 company, leading it through the Pentagon Papers and Watergate. My dad, Dawn Graham, took over for her and ran the Post until he sold it to Jeff Bezos

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