Lily-Rose Depp has spoken about trying find her own identity in Hollywood and hit back at her critics.
The actor, who is the daughter of Johnny Depp and French model-actress-singer Vanessa Paradis, says people want to see her fail as a result in a new interview.
She told Vanity Fair: “I feel like people have been ready to see me fail, in a way, since I was a kid. That has made me only want to work harder and prove people wrong. Not in a vindictive way at all, but just in a sense of, like, fuel to my fire.
“I do want to prove that I’m a hard worker and I’m not here for anything else but to work hard. But Rob [Eggers, Nosferatu director] was one of my bucket list directors. I didn’t think I would get to work with him so soon, so early in my career.”
Lily-Rose Depp is the daughter of Johnny Depp CREDIT: Getty/Stefania D’Alessandro
Addressing her nepo baby criticism further, she added: “Both of my parents are these incredible artists and I have grown up with that.
“Respecting them both so much and what they do, and trying to find my own identity in this world, has been interesting when everybody’s thinking that you’re here for the wrong reasons or that you don’t deserve to be here. You either can sit there and cry about it and be like, ‘This isn’t fair!’ or you can be like, ‘OK, I’m just going to work really, really hard and do the best that I can.’”
She went on to say that she loves acting, so “if people still want to talk shit or see me in a certain way, then that’s not my problem.”
Depp is currently starring in the horror flick Nosferatu and she said while filming, that the hardest part of the role of Ellen Hutter, was “getting over the imposter syndrome of, like, ‘Why am I here and why do these people think that I can do this?’”
“Getting to a place where I felt confident enough within myself to be like, ‘I can do this and I am here for a reason,’ I definitely have struggled with that,” Depp continued. “Humility is incredibly important, especially in this business. In a way, I always want to feel like I’m just starting out and like I still have so much to learn – which is how I do feel.”
Nosferatu is a remake of the 1922 film of the same name, which in turn was based on Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Directed by Robert Eggers, it also stars Bill Skarsgård, Nicholas Hoult, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Emma Corrin.
It is set for release on December 25 in the US and January 3 in the UK.
Meanwhile, a host of stars have recently spoken about the difficulty of being nepo babies including The Boys actor Jack Quaid and Willow Smith.
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